Announcing?

Knottie78553820 · February 2016

Hi I am 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and i am wanting to announce it on facebook for my friends and family that dont know yet. How should i do it?

Knottie78553820 · February 2016

oh yeah my first is almost 9 months old.

blondie080300 · February 2016

Have you checked Pinterest? It has a lot of great ideas!

Have fun and good luck!

618mom22boys · February 2016

One day on my "On this day" app was a pic of my now 5 year old as a baby. I posted it and said no longer the baby come September.

myjessesgirl · February 2016

They make really cute Big Brother/Big Sister onesies. I ended up making my own iron-on transfer on my computer and made a onesie for DD (she's 10 months). It worked really great! Better than anything I could have bought pre-made.

Smashbox29 · February 2016

I used Photoshop and created a cute "First comes Love, Then comes marriage, then comes baby!" anouncement. I used a picture of us from when we first started dating (our first dance at highschool a winter formal) then used our wedding photo. We were suppose to hold out until my first Ultrasound 02/17 but we were both impatient and family was starting to spread it around (first time grandparents) so we just kept that picture blank and put question marks. Then below anounced the EDD below!!!

yellowrose314 · February 2016

I took a picture of my pee stick and posted it with our announcement... we're classy like that.

erinmarie86 · February 2016

I just ordered a t-shirt for my son that says something like this boy is getting promoted to big brother https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EAA8KSA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

we'll be taking family photos later this month and we'll get a few in this shirt. We aren't big on sharing on facebook...but we use tiny beans to share pictures of my son with family and friends...i plan on creating a new journal for this baby and including pregnancy photos as well.

Pepper6 · February 2016

We need to get new family pictures done anyways (seriously, the last 'nice' pic we have of us is from a wedding 6 months ago), so we may do a shot or two with a "big sister" sign or something.

scifichick09 · February 2016

We're dog lovers, our two dogs are our babies (for now, but coming form my background, that may never change lol). I plan to just line up our two dog bones and a pacifier, snap a pic, and post it on FB. No caption or explanation....and just let people figure it out

danielle1290 · February 2016

My son is around the same age, about 9 1/2 months, I think I am planning on doing the 'Big Brother' shirt picture.

AnnaS930 · February 2016

For friends/family we'll be sending them a message on Sunday that says:
Roses are red, violets are blue
Coming in September
is Baby (our last name) #2!!

A week later I'll be ready for facebook to know. Bought my 1 year old a "Best big brother ever" t-shirt, going to post something like "The role doesn't start until September, but Emmett's feeling awfully confident!"

KarenBeth714 · February 2016

Love it @scifichick09 I have two dogs as well. That's a really cute idea...maybe I'll borrow !

mom2adoodle · February 2016

I don't know if I'm announcing on Facebook...I'm weird huh? I want to tell people over the phone/in person and everyone else will just sort of...figure it out? lol idk.

Image: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GtAQ45tbrys/VhM7o4ExhwI/AAAAAAAAXjw/uulnNZrYyLE/s640/weird.gif

Knottie78553820 · February 2016

Thank Yall for all of the advice... It was very helpful!!

JennM205 · February 2016

@mom2adoodle I'm with you on wanting to announce in person/over the phone. We did that with DD and had a lot of fun with it. We had cute little ideas to use for revealing to people as we saw them and used a different one each time. I never really did an announcement on FB. My sister got married while I was pregnant so when her pics of me (with an obvious bump) got posted on FB I thought people would figure it out but no one really did. It wasn't until I was about 7 months pregnant and was dressed up to go to a different wedding that my DH snapped a photo of me and posted on FB that his "family" was looking good before people really caught on. Until then, people figured it out as they saw me in person. It was kind of funny, actually... We made plans with a friend to go golfing when I was about 6 months pregnant. We hadn't seen him in a while so when he showed up it was quite a shock, haha.

scifichick09 · February 2016

@KarenBeth714 - You go right ahead!

SuzJune04 · February 2016

We are thinking of wrapping a photo of the ultrasound with a caption saying "You're going to be a big sister/brother" for our kids to each open on Valentines Day. We want to videotape their reactions! My 4yr old daughter has been putting stuffed animals under her shirt a lot lately and is going to be so excited to know Mommy has a real baby in her belly.

Themaritimemama · February 2016

Cute ideas everyone! We are doing a group of pictures. Our oldest dd will have a sign that says "been there", DS will have a sign that says "done that" and youngest DD wil have a sign that says "it's my turn to be a big sister!" Then the next pic will be the u/s pic and a caption saying about the last lucky charm arriving in Sept 2016. We'll distribute on St Pattys day (also our anniversary)... Well, if I can wait that long

tbearlion · February 2016

I found some super cute "stork" feathers on etsy and planning on sending them to family and close friends. I'm not sure about announcing on fb. Hubby wants to do a picture of little shoes and a September calendar to add to the feathers. No doubt one of his 12 nieces will post something on fb and that's fine with me as long as family finds out first.

chickendancefever · February 2016

After we tell all family and close friends, we will eventually post something on Facebook. I think we're just going to say that I'm pregnant and due in September. Anyone else going simple?

fkennard · February 2016

We're going to wait until after our 12 weeks US to "go public" (although most of our friends/family) already know. My husband and I met at University of Colorado, so we're going to take a picture wearing our CU shirts, holding this!!

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/uh/suqsk2bgx8fx.jpeg

erinkerr13 · February 2016

I just got married 5 months ago so we asked our wedding photographer to come over last weekend and do a mini shoot with us. I bought t-shirts for me, DH, and the dog. My shirt said "eating for two" DH's shirt said "She's eating for two, I'm drinking for 3" and the dog's shirt said "Only Child expiring September 2016". My DH and I did a shoot with him drinking a couple beers and me shoving my face with food. Then we did some of the dog surrounded by the ultrasound pics. I should get the pics back this week. When we are ready to announce we will send the pics to family/close friends and let them call us as they figure it out. Then a week or so later we will post on FB. Currently we are making the parents tour. We are telling them each in their own individual way.

camichael84 · February 2016

chickendancefever said:

After we tell all family and close friends, we will eventually post something on Facebook. I think we're just going to say that I'm pregnant and due in September. Anyone else going simple?

That's what I did when I FB announced with my first. My in person announcements were also lowkey, just saying "I'm pregnant."

I was planning on doing something and incorporating DD in announcing this one. But as it gets closer to the time I plan to announce, I'm thinking of going simple again. All the important people have been told. I don't feel the need to do something special for acquaintances and people I went to high school with 14 years ago.

chickendancefever · February 2016

@camichael84 Exactly. I think it's also because we went through infertility and I despised pregnancy announcements. I still do. That and I don't think people really care haha.

Sporty1216 · February 2016

chickendancefever said:

After we tell all family and close friends, we will eventually post something on Facebook. I think we're just going to say that I'm pregnant and due in September. Anyone else going simple?

Yep. With our first we just posted a casual pic of me and my husband and said we were excited to be expecting. I had a visible bump and that was fun. This time I don't know if we'll even worry about the photo. Just say we're expecting baby #2 in September. We've been a lot more free with telling people in person early this time, so the FB announcement feels like it really is just for a) the heck of it because "it's what you do" and b) people who we see infrequently and don't want to call. Haha.

AmMcc12 · February 2016

We will just be telling our family wither in person or over the phone. We will announce publicly on Easter with something like this

hcookie · February 2016

@fkennard I'm a CU Alum, too! What a great announcement! Go Buffs!

woodwardfamily · February 2016

I'm ten weeks Monday. I posted the announcements I made yesterday. We are going to mail some to family out of state and who lives hours away. We will give them to our mothers in person! It's my mom's first grandchild (I'm an only child). She has been spoiling my cousin's kids for years and now she can finally spoil her own grand baby.

I looked up Easter themed announcements since we will be sharing our news in March with our moms first!

I purchased all the items from Michaels and under $25 that can make up to 10, but I only made 6. Inside it is green moss, I cut a paper mache egg and painted in gold. Inside the egg is a little yellow chickadee and I glued personalized printed calligraphy messages (i.e. …your going to be a grandmother…baby 'w' due September 2016).

We are traveling to see my mother on Good Friday for the weekend! I'll be almost 15 weeks then! Can't wait to share this with her. We MC and have had our own tough journey to get here.

Me: 34 Him: 32

fkennard · February 2016

hcookie said:

@fkennard I'm a CU Alum, too! What a great announcement! Go Buffs!

Woo hoo!! Go Buffs!!

pilotswifey · February 2016

fkennard said:

hcookie said:

@fkennard I'm a CU Alum, too! What a great announcement! Go Buffs!

Woo hoo!! Go Buffs!!

Another Buff here! Black and gold all the way!

frogdog06 · February 2016

You gals, I just realized that in my head announcing at 12 weeks was not announcing at the three month mark...will be waiting until 14 weeks I guess!!

@woodwardfamily super cute and crafty!

I think we'll do a simple u/s photo on the announcement. I don't want to spend too much on that, because I am looking forward to a maternity shoot (around 7-8 months) and infant shoot.

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