Any big reveal plans?

stephweinstein · October 2015

How are you telling your friends and family?

How long are you waiting?

Will you post to Facebook?

Go!

WinchestertoPittsburgh · October 2015

We already told family.... with two MC's in the past few months, it's very nice to have support if anything were to go wrong. We told them the day we got the BFP.

We will tell everyone else (friends, extended family) once we get an ultrasound to verify that this pregnancy is progressing. I'm in the mindset that I don't want to have to hide my pregnancy until a certain date. If I know there's a baby growing in there, I want to tell people and talk about it. I think it's ridiculous to have to hide something just so if anything goes wrong, you won't have to explain it to people.

I guess after two MC's, I'm pretty opinionated about the whole thing, lol. But in a good way!

callen10210 · October 2015

I'm not waiting to tell people this time. I have a Big Sister shirt for DD to wear to Sunday dinner with my family. DH wants to tell his parents in person so it wont happen until Thanksgiving. I don't have Facebook so i wont be posting it there.

mckcak23 · October 2015

We told my parents on Sunday (using the book I love you, Grandpa and a little box that said Grandmother on the back), we plan to tell DH's side of the family (dad and sisters) in the next few weeks when we see them. We are getting together with his family to celebrate his younger sisters engagement and his older sisters birthday, so my hope is to give the younger a RSVP card to her future wedding and RSVP for 3. For his older sister I got her a happy birthday aunt card. Most close friends will know the second I don't have a drink when we are together. As for people I don't see often and extended family we will probably tell after the first Dr. appointment in December.

knitmama · October 2015

We'll probably take a cute family photo for our Holiday card and let that double as the announcement and post it on Facebook shortly after the cards go out. I'm sure I'll tell immediate family by thanksgiving - because I'll be puking by then.

crdo · October 2015

We're hosting Thanksgiving this year, so we've decided to tell our families then. It'll be right at 8wks, and we'll have had our first u/s a few days prior. We haven't quite decided how we'll announce though.

We'll call extended family and those that aren't in town soon after, and will likely do some kind of FB announcement Christmas/New Year's.

joyful08 · October 2015

My husband and I are going to Disney World this Christmas and really want to take cute reveal pictures there and then tell the family when we get back. I'll be 13 weeks. However I don't know if we can hold out that long. But I really want to it would be so cute!

Singingmama10 · October 2015

My DS's first birthday is on the 21st of November. Both sides of the family will be there so we decided after all the presents and the cake smash, basically at the end of the party, so that it doesn't take away from his celebrations we'll tell him he has one more present to open which will be a big brother shirt.

ijstarr28 · October 2015

joyful08 said:

My husband and I are going to Disney World this Christmas and really want to take cute reveal pictures there and then tell the family when we get back. I'll be 13 weeks. However I don't know if we can hold out that long. But I really want to it would be so cute!

We went to WDW at the end of September into early October. I had AF with me Sept 29. While we were there and i was on my period we took we're expecting pictures!!! rofl!! we got congratulated so much. Flash forward to today and I am pregnant!! so, the timing isnt that off... we plan on sending out announcements with the Christmas cards or using the picture in the card (not sure yet). We will be telling immediate family before then probably during Thanksgiving.

I grew up with facebook, and I will definitely be posting it on my page. I've only known for 1 day and i'm already going nuts and i want to tell everyone!!

EasterEggs · October 2015

We will be telling my family this Thursday (it's my mom's birthday and she's going to be so insanely happy haha), but other than that we'll just let it spread by word of mouth and start talking about it openly after the first ultrasound. Oh! We'll have to call my husband's family in Europe on the weekend to tell them, though not sure how much of a reaction it'll get lol.

We don't have facebook so won't be doing any social media announcing.

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

I just got my BFP this morning... I went home at lunch and took a digital test again just so its more real! And I've wrapped a gift for my husband to open tonight before dinner... I got a picture collage instant printed at CVS with 3 pictures in it, one that says Boyfriend & Girlfriend 2012 with a picture of us at our first formal occasion together, Husband & Wife 2014, with a picture of us on our wedding day, and then the photo across the bottom says "Mommy & Daddy 2016!!" And has a picture of my positive test from this morning... I'm so excited to give it to him!!!

As for the rest of the world... we told no one we were trying... so they will be very surprised! We plan to tell both of our parents in November (we had talked about this before actually confirming BFP) and then we'll tell the rest of our family at Christmas when we have them all together. We will post on Facebook likely after the new year just so we can make sure to tell all of our close friends in person first. I've got a vision of how I want to do it, (We live at the beach) so I'd like to take a picture on the beach of our 2 beach chairs facing the ocean, with a little baby beach chair in the middle, and write in the sand "Our Beach Baby is Arriving June 2016" but its getting cold & gloomy around here already in the fall, so Idk that I can convince DH to drag chairs & a photographer up there in the cold but we'll see!!

Interested to hear all of your reveal plans!!

stephweinstein · October 2015

Congrats @MsBeachNJ - That's a super cute announcement for your husband! Love it. My husband sort of walked in on me taking a test because my two year old said, "Daddy, Mommy pee pee on the potty. Come with me!" And that was that.

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

@stephweinstein - still a cute memory!! I waited till after my husband left for work to test because I knew if he was home I'd have 0 willpower to not just blurt it out... and I had asked him a few weeks ago if he'd like to be there with me to take the test, or if he'd like to be surprised and he thought it would be nice to be surprised, so the pressure was on for me to make that happen!

stephweinstein · October 2015

@MsBeachNJ so cute! Yes, a funny memory and very typical of us and the craziness that is my household. I live in NJ too and we have a house down the shore as well. Do you live down the shore?

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

@stephweinstein I do! Grew up having a shore house, and DH and I met down here... when we got engaged we decided this was where we wanted to be year round - so here we are!

stephweinstein · October 2015

Ugh - I wish we lived down there. It's just a weekend house for us. It seems like a much less chaotic life than living near NYC. Our house is in Bradley Beach. Where are you guys? @MsBeachNJ

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

@stephweinstein I'm about 20 minutes south of you

I lived/worked in NYC for 10 years... this is a much better quality of life for us, small town, quaint & peaceful in the offseason... and yes it gets hectic in the summers but the proximity to the beach is worth it (even if we have to share with all the summer folks!)

stephweinstein · October 2015

I'm not shocked by that. It sounds so much more quiet and peaceful to live there than to live up north. @MsBeachNJ

jennyleigh16 · October 2015

I mentioned it in another thread but we're telling our families at Christmas (if we can wait that long). I originally wanted to do ornaments for my parents but I found a couple of kids books by Mercer Meier about "Just Me and Grandpa" and "Just Me and Grandma" that I think I'll go with instead. I had a ton of those books growing up, there's a whole series and it just seems more fitting. We'll probably just call my MIL because we don't really talk much and likely do a photo frame with Grandpa on it for my FIL and his wife.

We might end up telling my brother and his fiancee sooner because they're getting married mid-June and if she asks me to be a bridesmaid I think I should tell her I'll either be giant or possibly have a newborn.

stephweinstein · October 2015

jennyleigh16 said:

I mentioned it in another thread but we're telling our families at Christmas (if we can wait that long). I originally wanted to do ornaments for my parents but I found a couple of kids books by Mercer Meier about "Just Me and Grandpa" and "Just Me and Grandma" that I think I'll go with instead. I had a ton of those books growing up, there's a whole series and it just seems more fitting. We'll probably just call my MIL because we don't really talk much and likely do a photo frame with Grandpa on it for my FIL and his wife.

We might end up telling my brother and his fiancee sooner because they're getting married mid-June and if she asks me to be a bridesmaid I think I should tell her I'll either be giant or possibly have a newborn.

There's a very popular author right now, Karen Katz. She does these "lift the flap" books. They have, "Grandma and Me" and "Grandpa and Me" and they would be perfect to start your collection. Super super popular

tinypikachu · October 2015

We already told our families but are waiting to tell friends and extended family. I surprised DH with a card, a 'Welcome Baby' balloon and a lamb blankie that says bless this child. I was able to record his reaction so it worked out well! We surprised our families the day we got the BFP with "Babysitter needed, position opens July 2016" cards. They were all surprised as they had no idea we'd been trying and I used to always push it back.

We're waiting to tell our friends and extended family in December. We have a friend visiting so we might wait until she comes to surprise her and then announce to everyone else. I think we'll send out christmas cards and post them on FB.

We also gave my brothers and SIL cards that said "the best brothers get promoted to uncle" (sisters/auntie for SIL) with a picture of two wicker chairs with a tiny one in the middle that I took in our backyard. I'm a photographer so I just took it the same day we got the BFP :P

jennyleigh16 · October 2015

stephweinstein said:

jennyleigh16 said:

I mentioned it in another thread but we're telling our families at Christmas (if we can wait that long). I originally wanted to do ornaments for my parents but I found a couple of kids books by Mercer Meier about "Just Me and Grandpa" and "Just Me and Grandma" that I think I'll go with instead. I had a ton of those books growing up, there's a whole series and it just seems more fitting. We'll probably just call my MIL because we don't really talk much and likely do a photo frame with Grandpa on it for my FIL and his wife.

We might end up telling my brother and his fiancee sooner because they're getting married mid-June and if she asks me to be a bridesmaid I think I should tell her I'll either be giant or possibly have a newborn.

There's a very popular author right now, Karen Katz. She does these "lift the flap" books. They have, "Grandma and Me" and "Grandpa and Me" and they would be perfect to start your collection. Super super popular

I just looked them up, they're perfect! I wonder if I could tape an u/s pic under one of the flaps... Thanks for the tip!

allieshortcake · October 2015

We are waiting to tell our families on Thanksgiving. We would prefer to tell our families before our friends, but we see our friends a lot more often so it's going to be hard to keep my mouth shut! I managed to get my first doctor's appointment scheduled for right before Thanksgiving, and I'm thinking it'll seem a little more "real" after that. Need to come up with a good way to tell family on Thanksgiving, though...

noelietrex · October 2015

I'm a mess. Told DH by laughing hysterically from the toilet- I was in shock and expecting to be out this cycle, I was honestly just testing to get the go ahead to get drunk later that night. Texted my best friend (who I knew was going to pop hers out any moment so didn't want to bug her with a call) and she got back to me yesterday, face timed from the hospital a few hours after she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! Then after going back and forth a lot I called my mom to tell her. She's having surgery Wednesday for pancreatic cancer so it's complicated... I wanted to get to tell her in case the worst happens, also wanted to give her (and my dad) good news and something positive to think about during a dark time. Then when I went to do my crossfit workout this morning I awkwardly told the coach and a couple gym buddies because I didn't want them to think I was lame for not doing my box jumps or ab work... At which point I felt guilty for telling gym buddies before my sister and sent her a text. Because all the classy and sentimental things!

The plan is to tell everyone else when we go home for Christmas (I have a HUGE family). Poor DH isn't looking forward to it though because he has a single 36 year old sister who was sore about our wedding, claims to dislike children, and he feels she'll be very jealous and upset like she was when we announced our engagement. Facebook gets no announcements, but I do plan to post pics and think it'd be hilarious to post pics of me pigging out when I have a bulge before the bump really comes in and start hinting that I'm getting fat. For some reason I think getting fat is going to be hilarious!

NamelessAria · October 2015

DH and I agreed before getting our BFP that we'd wait till the end of the 1st trimester when it's a little safer. Apparently I have a higher risk of MC because of my Endometriosis? We're probably going to have to tell his family sooner since they're insisting on visiting for Thanksgiving. If I'm part of the majority of women who get morning sickness I imagine it will be hard to hide that I'm pregnant by Thanksgiving with company staying at my house.

We're going to try to wait till Christmas to tell my family since it's the soonest I'll be able to see everyone. My mother and grandma just announced they're visiting next when (at which point I'll be 6 weeks) and they're staying with me a few days. I suppose I'll see if morning sickness has started yet and if I can hide it (assuming it has). Otherwise, I may be telling them sooner than I'd like.

At least by Thanksgiving I'll have a picture of the ultrasound since my 8 week appointment is the 16th. Ya know, assuming all goes well. FX

DH and I still haven't managed to agree on a way to tell everyone yet. I really wanted to tell his mom by making her a really cute card with something like [front] "We think you're just grand..." [inside] "..so grand in fact that we've decided to add it to your name! Congratulations, Grandmother!*"
*Offer valid starting 6-28-15

But DH told me it was "cheesy and lame" and that we weren't going to announce that way. wah wah

I guess we'll see what we can come up with that we, at least mostly, agree on by Thanksgiving!

Singingmama10 · October 2015

NamelessAria said:

DH and I still haven't managed to agree on a way to tell everyone yet. I really wanted to tell his mom by making her a really cute card with something like [front] "We think you're just grand..." [inside] "..so grand in fact that we've decided to add it to your name! Congratulations, Grandmother!*"
*Offer valid starting 6-28-15

But DH told me it was "cheesy and lame" and that we weren't going to announce that way. wah wah

I guess we'll see what we can come up with that we, at least mostly, agree on by Thanksgiving!

I think it's cute!! Mind you... my DH would say the same thing , but aren't these announcements supposed to be kind of "cheesy"

mrsb8244 · October 2015

This past weekend we had our parents and siblings over. We made a slide show that projected on the TV with "first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage." For the last picture we had our dog in between us and DH and I made a heart on my belly. They were so excited and started freaking out! This will be the first baby for both sides.

I actually had told my mom before because we're so close. I put a pacifier in a little box with a note from baby

ijstarr28 · October 2015

So I think our Christmas plans for a reveal have been screwed up. My MIL is getting a full historectomy on November 13th. I think we may let the immediate family know then and do the full announcement in our Christmas cards. I think it would be a good way to lighten the mood!

princessconsuela1986 · October 2015

I told MH by giving him a card that said "oh shit... We're going to have a baby! Due July 2016" and a onesie that I bought nearly two years ago that says "future zombie killer".

We haven't told anyone else yet. We are waiting until Christmas so tell our parents. MH wants to tell him family by wearing a shirt that says "be nice to me, my wife is pregnant" and casually take off his sweater during dinner.

I was thinking I would get my parents "my new name is grandma/grandpa" (or something like that) mugs and serve them with tea after Christmas dinner :-)

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

Totally shocked DH last night with the news! I had told him I couldn't test for another week or so (he isn't all that tuned into my cycle) so I told him the things I had ordered from Snapfish came in the mail and asked if he wanted to see them. I had him open a snapfish box & inside was the picture I had made, my positive tests, and a note from baby, he was so surprised (and I got pics!!). Funny after the shock wore off the first thing he said was "so you can't drink now" (we're hosting a Halloween party this weekend) and then was trying to find creative ways of us hiding it... the way men think!!

ijstarr28 · October 2015

MsBeachNJ said:

Totally shocked DH last night with the news! I had told him I couldn't test for another week or so (he isn't all that tuned into my cycle) so I told him the things I had ordered from Snapfish came in the mail and asked if he wanted to see them. I had him open a snapfish box & inside was the picture I had made, my positive tests, and a note from baby, he was so surprised (and I got pics!!). Funny after the shock wore off the first thing he said was "so you can't drink now" (we're hosting a Halloween party this weekend) and then was trying to find creative ways of us hiding it... the way men think!!

I have a retirement party i'm going to and i have to figure out how to hide it too. I think i'll bring some vodka and cranberry juice and just have a cocktail with just cranberry juice in it all night!

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

Since the party is at our house i figure it will be easier... I can fill my wine glass with wine if anyone is looking, and then take it to my bedroom & swap it out with juice... or if I'm drinking a beer - I will just swap the beer out of the bottle with apple juice - my cousin did that and tricked us all summer

It will be much harder when we go out to dinner (we always got to BYO places) with a few of our couple friends and we all always share the same kind of wine...so I'll have to figure out a way to keep my own bottle of non alcoholic wine without them noticing?! That's the only part that stresses me!

ijstarr28 · October 2015

MsBeachNJ said:

Since the party is at our house i figure it will be easier... I can fill my wine glass with wine if anyone is looking, and then take it to my bedroom & swap it out with juice... or if I'm drinking a beer - I will just swap the beer out of the bottle with apple juice - my cousin did that and tricked us all summer It will be much harder when we go out to dinner (we always got to BYO places) with a few of our couple friends and we all always share the same kind of wine...so I'll have to figure out a way to keep my own bottle of non alcoholic wine without them noticing?! That's the only part that stresses me!

Could you say you're under the weather and dont think drinking is that good of an idea? What if you order a mocktail from the bartender?

NamelessAria · October 2015

So I think DH and I may have settled on a way to tell his family at Thanksgiving!

We're talking about doing the thing where we get everyone together for a group photo (his family always takes at least one group photo at every family get-together) and then instead of "1, 2, 3 say cheese!" we're going to do "1, 2, 3 NamelessAria is pregnant!" (with my real name though, obviously haha) I told DH he may want to put it on video mode instead of a picture. We think it would be nice to have everyone's reaction saved forever.

I'm excited!

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

@namelessaria, so cute!! Will be a great keepsake for sure!!

bunkie999 · October 2015

i bought my husband a book, and a baby onsie that said "#2016" on it and wrapped it in a gift bag and placed it by the coffee maker so he would see it in the morning, he opened it and was very happy and excited! My moms birthday is next week and she loves colouring so I'm wrapping up a colouring book that says "I love grandma" on it (I ordered it off amazon) she's going to freak! And for my in laws we bought a Christmas ornament from hallmark that is a "pregnant mom to bee" so we are going to wrap it up and give that to them in a couple weeks. We will tell all our imidiate family before the 12week mark, I would want their support if anything were to happen.

jennyleigh16 · October 2015

ijstarr28 said:

MsBeachNJ said:

Totally shocked DH last night with the news! I had told him I couldn't test for another week or so (he isn't all that tuned into my cycle) so I told him the things I had ordered from Snapfish came in the mail and asked if he wanted to see them. I had him open a snapfish box & inside was the picture I had made, my positive tests, and a note from baby, he was so surprised (and I got pics!!). Funny after the shock wore off the first thing he said was "so you can't drink now" (we're hosting a Halloween party this weekend) and then was trying to find creative ways of us hiding it... the way men think!!

I have a retirement party i'm going to and i have to figure out how to hide it too. I think i'll bring some vodka and cranberry juice and just have a cocktail with just cranberry juice in it all night!

We were at a 3 day wedding all weekend and that's what I did. I just ordered cranberry juice with sparkling water and asked them to put it in the same glass as they would a cocktail. Worked pretty well. We told one close couple because they were coyly asking what I was drinking (the wife thought I was in the TWW) and my husband drunkenly told the groom at the end of the night, to which he replied the bride is 9 weeks and they haven't told anybody! Didn't even notice she wasn't drinking all weekend. We're throwing a halloween party on Friday and I'll probably do the same thing with a "mixed drink" in a solo cup.

LC1809 · October 2015

We told DD and our parent with a book. I'm A Big Sister! They were so shocked! We plan to tell family in the coming weeks. We may tell Facebook with a picture of DD and her new book. Or maybe the obligatory fall-pumpkin-baby picture. You know the one "We're adding a little pumpkin to our patch!", that one.

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WorkingMom562 · October 2015

Haven't decided yet how or even even to tell everyone! My last pregnancy we told everyone early on and I ended up miscarrying. DH mentioned he wants to wait to confirm everything's good, but I think that we should tell everyone anyways. If it doesn't stick, then it helps raise awareness of miscarriages!

Plus, I don't know how long I can fool ppl if I'm not drinking....

TattoosandLace · October 2015

I think it'd be super cute to tell DH's family by dressing our daughter up as a Big Sister for Halloween this weekend! Hubs isn't quite sure how well that will go over. Our daughter is 8 months old.

We shall see.

MsBeachNJ · October 2015

We decided how to reveal to our parents & I ordered the things today (part of me was super nervous to jump the gun & do so before anything is confirmed by an ultrasound/dr appointment) but my Dr. Appt isn't for another 2 weeks and I want to be able to tell our parents that weekend (appt is on a Friday) so I but the bullet and ordered it, having faith that all is going well!!

On my DH's side, it's the first grandbaby, so we ordered a frame off of Etsy that says "Only the best parents get promoted to Grandparents" and we will input a sonogram photo in it.

On my side my sister already has 2 little ones so my parents aren't exactly "becoming" grandparents as they already are, so again on Etsy we had a sign made that says "The best thing about having you as parents, is our children having you as Grandparents" and again will wrap it with a sonogram pic...

I also ordered these adorable "countdown to baby" timers on etsy for like $6 and we'll give one to each set of grandparents set to the due date.

I'm excited we've gotten this far with ideas... Now just have to have the next 2 weeks pass quickly & decide when to announce to the rest of our siblings/family!!!

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