We have told some close friends and our parents, otherwise we have been hush. I graduate from college on 5/14 and thought it would be fun to announce with a picture of me in my gown after the ceremony and my son in a "big brother" shirt... Along with some cheesy line with our next plans or something. I'll be 16-17 weeks at that point.
I will not tell a soul until I hear the heartbeat. Partially because I just need to hear it first. Partially because I am not sure all of my family will be excited. My husband and I are definitely old enough (27/29), but we both work retail and most of our family doesn't consider our income enough to raise a child. We pretty much said screw that, because we wanted kids and my family history includes fibroids and uterine tumors that resulted in hysterectomies....I wanna do it now while I still have the parts to do it with!
Now. For announcing. We are both huge Star Wars nerds, and kinda geeks in general. So I am trying to find something related. Our parents and sibling will absolutely get a phone call or be told in person first, but my parents are the only ones close to us.
Dh and I are huge geeks! We're doing a Harry Potter announcement!
@AllyTheKid my MIL bought me this frame today and I had to force a smile because as soon as I saw the frame all I could think of (and all I will ever think of) is this picture!!
Love all these ideas! This will be our first and we are so excited. Several months before BFP I bought a shirt for our dog that said "Soon to be Big Sister". Corny but my DH loved it! Put our pup in the shirt as soon as I had BFP!
We told my parents shortly after around 4w3d. We told them with our pup wearing the shirt, too. Since she never wears clothes they noticed right away. Both of them cried and screamed in excitement!
We waited until we had heard heartbeat at 8w4d before telling other family members. We want to wait until closer to 20 weeks to post on Facebook.
I told my BFF that I needed to see her to give her something. I had a bottle of wine with a note attached that said, "I need you to drink this for me because I'm afraid in may go bad in the next 9 months or so." Cheesy, but fun!
My first is turning 1 on 3/17, so we are wrapping a "Big Brother" shirt and book for him to open. I also made him a shirt with "1" on it, and made another for myself with "2&3" on the belly
@ecpdvm Cute! I would make the font bigger and probably not white. Also, maybe put all the font to the left of DS and leave the space behind him (where the "coming october 2016" currently is) empty for better composition. Sorry, I am a graphic designer so I have opinions
I'm actually waiting till Easter. I have even kept it from family. Easter will be the end of the first trimester for me and I really wanted the privacy for the first few months. I was soo sick that it was difficult at times not to call my mom... but I stuck to my decision. My husband and I are sharing with everyone with a video. We are making a tour of our town video because our family all live out of town. We will start with subtle hints by having random baby items in the video and slowly get more obvious till at the end, we share the news flat out and show the ultrasound. It will be fun. We are making it this weekend.
We announced last week with this photo! (Then my midwife changed my due date to October 2nd, so I'm back here with you ladies in this lovely October group!)
Posted this on FB yesterday. I'm 11 weeks today. A little earlier than planned, originally we were going to announce on Easter. But we realized people would be with their families and might not see it. So it's out there now!
I'm torn. Easter will be too soon. The next time I see my family will be my cousins 16th birthday and she is just the sweetest kid, I don't want to take one second of attention away from her so I wont do it then. So I'm thinking I'll do it on mothers day. I'll be 15 weeks (I think, getting my US on the 22nd) I was thinking of getting my 6 year old a shirt that says I'm going to be a big sister and sending her in the party before we go in. I think I'll tell my little brother and have him film the reaction of our family. DD was born with a brain malformation (spent months in the hospital and had 5 brain surgeries). I'm afraid to tell people because I don't want them to worry.
Had a fancier announcement last pregnancy but that ended in a loss so I just did this for this pregnancy...Feeling safe to announce since we made it past my loss and I am 12 weeks. Sorry the pic is so huge!!!
We told best friends and parents at 5 weeks (each set of parents got one phone-a-friend that they could squeal to). But the rest of family will find out right at 12 weeks on Easter since we are the only ones who live out of town and that's the only time we'll be all together for a while. My 12 week appt is the following Wednesday so if everything checks out well from that then we'll make some sort of cute, corny Easter-related announcement on FB (i.e. the Bunny bringing us a FERTILIZED egg this year )
My first appointment isn't until April 12th. DH and I are so excited for our first and want to tell our parents. I have convinced him to wait until we get back from the appointment with ultrasound pictures. But I didn't think this would be so hard! I wanna tell my mom so bad! MIL has a baby clothing store on Etsy. We are going to call MIL & FIL on Skype and order a customized onesie that says our due date and hopefully she will figure it out. Can't wait!
We are announcing on Easter. We plan on revealing to our boys when they get their Easter baskets. We made a separate basket for the baby and have the ultrasound pictures and some baby items in it. We then plan on taking a picture of the boys with it and will announce on Facebook.
We're phasing our announcement a bit--we've told our closest friends and family, and DH has told people he's closer to at work but he works for a large corporation, and I'm at a very small firm. I just picked up some sweets today and left them in the kitchen with a note that said,
"Happy spring! Eat up--my mom has a ways to go to catch up with Nicole [a colleague who's due May 4], but you could probably match her bump with a few brownies. Love, Baby [last name] (yes--THAT kind of baby!) "
So far it's been fun having coworkers stop by my office, but I feel better not putting anyone on the spot and making them 'react'!
(PS, I had told my boss and the president of our firm first--I don't think this would have been an appropriate way to spill the beans to them!)
I printed these on photo paper and mailed them to close family/friends. We did take an alternate photo with our dogs holding signs reading "Baby's Best Friends" for older relatives who wouldn't understand Cards Against Humanity.
we just posted this on FB "Mom is a Cardinals fan, Dad is an Astros fan, and our little Tiebreaker will be here in October 2016! (although mom's intuition already knows we have a new Cardinals fan on the way)"
We made cards but I designed this myself... I edited out our last name.. We are not doing a fb announcement and instead sent out these cards to those we wanted to be in the know. We have hidden the ability on fb for people to post on our wall to try to help minimize the ability to spoil this announcement. We've called immediate family or seen them in person to tell them.
We used our puppers to announce on Facebook last Sunday after we had told our parents and grandparents in person. They did not appreciate sitting on the tile....at all!!!
Re: How Will You Annouce Your Pregnancy!!
DS #1 11/08/10
DS #2 due 10/20/16
DS1: 5 ; DS2: 4m
Baby #3 Due 9/7/17
DS1: 5 ; DS2: 4m
Baby #3 Due 9/7/17
Admire this! I just made it! And I even sewed the little superman diaper cover for DS. I am feeling very proud of myself right now.
I'm going to announce it at the bbq with baby themed cupcakes.
Sorry the pic is so huge!!!
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
"Happy spring! Eat up--my mom has a ways to go to catch up with Nicole [a colleague who's due May 4], but you could probably match her bump with a few brownies. Love, Baby [last name] (yes--THAT kind of baby!) "
So far it's been fun having coworkers stop by my office, but I feel better not putting anyone on the spot and making them 'react'!
(PS, I had told my boss and the president of our firm first--I don't think this would have been an appropriate way to spill the beans to them!)
ETA: Removed my (distinct!) last name, oops!
(Edit to blur out our last name)
@MrsB627 - we have the same plan! Will announce after my appointment on Thursday. Looks like a lot of us have the Easter egg theme!
I printed these on photo paper and mailed them to close family/friends. We did take an alternate photo with our dogs holding signs reading "Baby's Best Friends" for older relatives who wouldn't understand Cards Against Humanity.
"Mom is a Cardinals fan, Dad is an Astros fan, and our little Tiebreaker will be here in October 2016! (although mom's intuition already knows we have a new Cardinals fan on the way)"
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