Birth Annuncements

Charla1224 · April 2016

Yesterday we received a birth announcement from friends who gave birth in January. We have newborn photos scheduled and now I'm wondering if I should be creating a birth announcement with them. Does anyone else have plans of sending out announcements? By mail or electronically? I'm thinking we might create an electronic announcement to share on social media and email to a few others. I just wanted to hear what you all were thinking.

yogahh · April 2016

I'm sending them. I loved sending out our wedding announcements and looking forward to having a "photo shoot" at home to make the baby announcements too!

Kurrant · April 2016

We are planning to send a few announcements out to family, especially older family members who appreciate that sort of thing. We are not doing professional newborn photos though and want to do them ourselves.

dsmith211 · April 2016

We're sending out announcements to close friends and family in addition to also posting an e-announcement. We're having pictures done about a week after the baby is born and using those. I'm pretty excited about sending them out.

folamij · April 2016

We'll be sending out announcements to family and friends that we are close to. We are still deciding if we even want to post anything on fb since we haven't really even shared much pregnancy wise. Even though my privacy settings are high, I'm always afraid of some weirdo getting their hands on pictures of my innocent baby if the pictures are shared. Most likely not, but I'd rather be safe than sorry..

onislandtime · April 2016

I haven't decided. I would like to send announcements, but I may just post on social media a cute announcement.

salbb · April 2016

Same - mailing out to friends and family - figure it's a nice memento also. Will prob do it as a card like we did for wedding - photo from one of ours most likely...

hellogoodbye2 · April 2016

We'll be using a newborn photo for mail announcements, too.

JessicaB0627 · April 2016

That sounds like too much work!

khochanadel · April 2016

I probably won't do professional pics of the babies - I think most of the time they come out so unnatural and staged looking - but you only have twins once (or at least I hope so) so I feel like I need to do something on the way of announcements, plus most of our friends and family are far away.

And one of my closest friends owns a stationery/invitation store so that makes it easy on me.

doozer1345 · April 2016

For DD1 I sent a picture text and I made a post on Instagram. That's all I could muster.

Bltbear82 · April 2016

We did mailed announcements for DS1, so we will do the same for DS2. We didn't do full on newborn photos last time aside from the hospital session because DH can take better photos than that and we used his for our announcement anyway. I booked a session this time because he's never in any of the photos and I'd like one of all of us so I'll probably do one photo of just DS2 and maybe either one of the boys plus dog or family photo.

Minted makes it really easy to do announcements with printed addresses etc.

Charla1224 · April 2016

Do announcements say "send me a gift?" I'm thinking about who we would send paper announcements to and a chunk of those people would be the same as those who attended the shower. Just seems like a lot for them. But I do have some distant relatives my mom might want to send announcements to especially since we're using a family name.

cortney626 · April 2016

I probably will. Especially since I have a ton of Shutterfly coupons/ $20 off from a bunch of baby stuff. I love sending out Christmas cards and our friends and family enjoy getting them. An announcement isn't asking for gifts. I don't think. I receive announcements and like getting them.

mcb2016 · April 2016

I sent announcements with my first child. We didn't mention to many people we were adopting so we enjoyed sharing his photo with everyone. I will probably do an e-annoucement just because I don't want people to feel like they need to send me a gift and a majority of my family is all on Facebook. Maybe I will print up a few for great grandparents who are not on social media.

Par13 · April 2016

Charla1224 said:

Do announcements say "send me a gift?" I'm thinking about who we would send paper announcements to and a chunk of those people would be the same as those who attended the shower. Just seems like a lot for them. But I do have some distant relatives my mom might want to send announcements to especially since we're using a family name.

I don't think so! Unless that's a regional thing.

We receive lots of mailed birth announcements and I've never thought that it was with the purpose of sending back a gift. Of course, if it's a close friend or family member I'm likely to send a gift but that's because I was planning on it regardless.

I love to get birth announcements with photos and I'm planning on sending them out again this time as well (we sent them out with DS and they were easy to throw together on Shutterfly and a nice memento for us too!). I don't go overboard with it. I think we sent around 20 out last time, so it wasn't too overwhelming to address all of those envelopes with a newborn.

camillaandcarson · April 2016

Last birth announcement I got I made dinner and snacks for them and brought it to their house. Along with gifts

I had intended to do this when they had their baby, but life got busy. They sent the cards out when their LO was about 4 weeks old, served as a good reminder for me.
Plus, I love getting the cards in the mail and I know close friends/family do too.
Also, a huge event like the birth of a new baby is not your every day thing, so far it has only happened once in my lifetime - so they also are great for LO's baby book/memories.

wsgjmw1 · April 2016

How soon after the birth do you send out the announcement? Like pp have said I will most likely take pics myself and use all the shutterfly coupons I have to make them .

Knottie1433777995 · April 2016

I'm getting envelopes now and addressing/stamping them ahead of time, then when I order them I just have to put them in the envelopes and drop them in the mailbox. I'm just going to send them to everyone I invited to the shower, and a few others, so it'll probably come out to about 80 announcements.

yogahh · April 2016

Charla1224 said:

Do announcements say "send me a gift?" I'm thinking about who we would send paper announcements to and a chunk of those people would be the same as those who attended the shower. Just seems like a lot for them. But I do have some distant relatives my mom might want to send announcements to especially since we're using a family name.

No, I had this arguement with my mil over wedding announcements. An announcement is just that- saying "hey here's the baby". Now if someone wants to get you a gift because they received and announcement so be it. But as I told mil then, and will probably do now, the propel I am sending announcements to already know we are having a baby. This isn't a surprise to them.

wamam027 · April 2016

yogahh said:

Charla1224 said:

Do announcements say "send me a gift?" I'm thinking about who we would send paper announcements to and a chunk of those people would be the same as those who attended the shower. Just seems like a lot for them. But I do have some distant relatives my mom might want to send announcements to especially since we're using a family name.

No, I had this arguement with my mil over wedding announcements. An announcement is just that- saying "hey here's the baby". Now if someone wants to get you a gift because they received and announcement so be it. But as I told mil then, and will probably do now, the propel I am sending announcements to already know we are having a baby. This isn't a surprise to them.

Agreed. Like I told my mom, there's a very small list of people who I'd like to receive a text with a "birth announcement" right when the baby is born. The rest of the people in my and DH's lives are simply not so close to me that I'm going to go out of my way to pick up my phone right after giving birth or getting home with my newborn, so those people to me are the ones who will find out that the baby has arrived via birth announcement. I'll likely send them to those that receive a text as well because I know most of them would appreciate a physical announcement with a picture that they can hold onto. I'm just going to address and stamp envelopes ahead of time, go online to shutterfly using all my coupons from motherhood maternity, create and order them and then put them in envelopes and send them on their way.

yogahh · April 2016

Also, weddingpaperdivas does great announcements. If you belong to GiltCity, I feel like they have 50% off deals all the time.

NB817 · April 2016

Yes absolutely. We did it for DD so I feel like we need to do it for DS. We have a photographer coming about a week after he's born for newborn and family pics.

js8812 · April 2016

We'll be doing mail announcements as well. I don't think they come across as requesting a gift. I will definitely send them to everyone who was at my shower (and other family) as they are obviously close to me.

TXmamatobe · April 2016

Yes to announcements! I love getting them and I sent one for DD. I recommend Minted.com - I love all of their cards and announcements. I use them for Christmas cards each year and got DDs announcements there as well. A little more expensive but there are some really beautiful cards.

LadySamLady · April 2016

I will definitely mail an announcement, for the tradition of it. The people receiving them are close enough to us that they will already know we had the baby but in my family everyone still sends announcements. My grandmother has all of her great-grandchildren's birth announcements on her fridge, and the oldest is 6! I also love minted. I'm a nerd and will probably even order/make some stamps with the baby's picture on it (I think from stamps.com), we did that with our picture for our wedding save-the-dates and everyone loved it!

finnybooboo · April 2016

We'll be doing them! I sent them out within the first month last time, and just took some pics myself and used my favorite one of them. Got them off of shutterfly or one of those equivalents, and just used one of their templates. Super easy and not too expensive! We're planning on doing newborn/sibling shoot this time around, so will probably wait to use some of those pics.

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