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texas_t · May 2018

Ok, let's see 'em!

texas_t · May 2018

@tumbleweed-1 and @scaredunprepared And done.

texas_t · May 2018

So, we loved the idea of the Game of Thrones theme, so my husband made this. The direwolf silhouette is our dog

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/ee/op577wruykz4.jpg

rosebud332 · May 2018

@texas_t Love that!

ChristenMA83 · May 2018

@texas_t that is awesome! Very well done.

ab_canada · May 2018

@texas_t
I love it!

PensiveCrayon · May 2018

That’s freaking awesome @texas_t!

penny624 · May 2018

@texas_t Nice...love that idea!

trucksntutus · May 2018

That is so cool @texas_t !!! I love GoT!

mbelow6103 · May 2018

Here's ours- minus the kids faces

temmetime · May 2018

@texas_t that is genuous, I love it!

tumbleweed-1 · May 2018

@texas_t That’s so cool! I’m really leaning toward a GoT theme too, because it’ll be a winter baby and I’m totally a Stark. I would have died in season/book one. Lol. Harry Potter is my first fandom love though, so idk, I feel like I’m cheating on the wizarding world if I go high/medieval fantasy.

I’m waayyyy overthinking this.

I might not even do a fb “announcement”. I have at least one friend who has been struggling with infertility, but idk how many other fb friends are suffering silently. Even when I wasn’t ttc, other people’s announcements hurt me a bit (I had mad baby fever). If I make one, it’ll be after my first u/s. I want to make sure that everything is ok first. Sorry this is so long! I can’t seem to make short posts.

texas_t · May 2018

@tumbleweed-1 Maybe you could do something with the sorting hat? Image result for sorting hat baby announcement

texas_t · May 2018

@tumbleweed-1 I'm not typically a reveal party person, but this is really cute!

tumbleweed-1 · May 2018

texas_t said:

@tumbleweed-1 I'm not typically a reveal party person, but this is really cute!

I think it’s a cute idea too! But I’m also not huge on the genital reveal party trend. We’re team green, much to the sorrow of both of our families. (Both SO’s step sisters each had a boy within the past year, and my only sibling with kids has two girls (2cd this past year too). With new boys on his side & only girls on my side, we’ve already got pressure about it. We’re going to make everyone suffer and wait with us! I should get over to Pinterest and check out all the nerdy announcement ideas though

clbness · May 2018

@tumbleweed-1 Heh heh, you said genital. I'm so immature.

I just love seeing peoples ideas for announcements...so fun! I LOVE the GoT announcement @texas_t ! Makes me yearn for the new season to start. So. Far. Away.

maureenmce · May 2018

@texas_t I absolutely LOVE your announcement!!!

texas_t · May 2018

Funny story.... I would absolutely be the one who all of a sudden posts a picture of myself at 30 weeks pregnant and everyone is like, whoa. My husband REALLY wants to post an announcement, though, lol. Go for it, babe, lol!

asun123 · May 2018

I am torn between posting an announcement at 14 weeks when I find out the 'genitals' of this baby or if I should just post a picture of my belly on instagram at like 25 weeks and say surprise!. I have such a busy life that it wouldn't be too surprising that I didn't mention anything until 25 weeks. I bought two of these shirts from etsy for my boys just in case I decide to post an announcement in June (14 weeks).

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/xs/io89nvg17myo.jpg

(picture is from Etsy)

katy0990 · May 2018

@mbelow6103 I love that!

Hollyyyyy · May 2018

We won't be putting any sort of announcement social media at all.

For my parents & in-laws, we are going to do the scratch-it announcements, for my brother I found a case of "uncle beer", and for my SIL, we will give a bottle of wine with a personalized label. We won't announce to any of them until the end of June when I'm 16 weeks.

We are road tripping in 2 weeks, and will tell my Grandma then, since we will be face to face, and this will be her first great-grandchild. She and I are super close, and I trust her 100000% that she won't slip up and tell anyone. I bought this to give her, and will play it off as a late Mothers Day card.

kristah2 · May 2018

@Hollyyyyy literally cried reading your announcement for your grandma.

Hollyyyyy · May 2018

@kristah2 I cried when I was searching for Great-Grandma announcements because
*TW death*
My husband and I don't have any Grandpas left, and oh mannn that made me sob.
*End TW*
Thank God we still have our Grandmas, though!

clbness · May 2018

@Hollyyyy That's so sweet, I love it!

Grandmas are just so special. *sigh*

kelseyyh · May 2018

@texas_t
Oh. my. gosh. That turned out SOOO well! I might need to take note for our e-announcements. We are still waiting till we have our first ultrasound and such before even telling family so I have some time to make ours.

texas_t · May 2018

@kelseyyh Feel free to copy it!!!! We are waiting until after our 12 week appt, so the 21st!

mhobbes · May 2018

@texas_t you're a genius! You should start a business of baby announcement!

I think it's funny how some people give a lot of thought to announcing and others don't do it at all! I have a friend from London and one day she just posted a pic of a baby and I was like "I'm sorry for the strange question, but is it yours? and is it real?"

So far I had small announcement for close friends, but nothing on social media. But I plan to do something in a couple of weeks

sterjacks21 · May 2018

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/nw/sxds4u4qh9eq.jpeg

We posted this to our Instagram accounts last Friday! It’s actually a digital print that is customized. I found the business on Etsy! You just pic which flatlay you like and she adds in your custom dates and picture.

sagems10 · May 2018

I have really enjoyed coming up with fun ways to tell people! The picture of my dog we used to tell my co-workers (who needed to know asap due to workplace hazards) and the blocks I made for my parents! I am going to make shirts for my sisters that day aunt squad. Our Facebook announcement will probably be us walking our dog with the sane sign around his neck.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/qv/j2cjqfr5ahem.jpg

orangecrush29 · May 2018

These are all so cute! I have no idea what I'm doing yet!

kchiquita20 · May 2018

We’ve been giving this to grandparents. I’m super lazy so I’ll probably just post this on fb as well... if I decide to at all.

CecilB93 · May 2018

I forgot to get pics, but for my ILs we got a picture frame, put pictures of my son and DH making the same pose, then a picture of the ultrasound, and a note in the 4th frame that said "Happy Mothers Day Nana! Baby (last name) coming December 2018".

For my mom we bought a bottle of wine. I taped a copy of the ultrasound to one side, and the other side had a note that said, "Drink this for me, I'll join you next year! Baby (last name) coming December 2018".

We're telling my dad this weekend, but don't have the excuse of Mother's Day like with our moms lol. I think I'm going to have DS ask him to read his new book, I'm A Big Brother.

ChristenMA83 · May 2018

We did this for my Dad's birthday. It was a very early announcement before our first ultrasound so we used the blastocyst picture.

Will probably do an IVF worth the wait type of announcement for social media. Would like to use my dogs, but boxers aren't super cooperative.

coco2787 · May 2018

We aren’t going to announce publicly until after the anatomy scan but I want to do some sort of rainbow baby announcement. Probably something like this.

mhobbes · May 2018

So many nice ideas!
sterjacks21 we share the same DD

deutschmama · May 2018

@texas_t love your GOT announcement!

My husband is the same, I'm not really into the FB announcements, but my husband is surprisingly psyched about it.

echo-charlietango · May 2018

In-person: telling my MIL next week when she visits, just so I don't have to lie about my unusual sobriety. She will be under strict orders to zip it.

Remaining parents will learn via FaceTime sessions in our new house (we don't live near family now, and we're not moving closer). This will be late June or sometime in July. This will be my parents' first grandchild, and I expect them to be very suspicious. "This is the master bedroom, this will be the nursery, here's the laundry room..."

Social media: Zero. I don't want this kid to get sucked into the system while they're in utero, I want them to have autonomy first. This means no photos online without my consent, etc. I know this will be a battle...especially with my mom who puts everything on FB.

I am an avid holiday card sender, but I won't mention the pregnancy at all in this year's card. But our December 2019 holiday card photo will include the babe - this is how other family members will find out if they haven't spoken to us directly or if word doesn't get to them. Kid should be sitting up by then, and hopefully more manageable than our two dogs (who make the annual photo a hilarious disaster each year).

And if it's any matter, we're not going to do a sex reveal, we're team green all the way. And if anybody tries to throw me a baby shower I will walk away from it. I am not on board with majority of the cultural norms assigned to pregnant women...obviously.

katy0990 · May 2018

@echo-charlietango I am glad I am not the only one who doesn’t put their kids on FB. We get a lot of flack for it, but I just don’t feel comfortable with it.

echo-charlietango · May 2018

@katy0990 I hope that family members respect my decision, because if they don’t I’ll feel forced to 1) close my account, and 2) restrict access to LO if I catch them posting secret photos. I know it makes me sound like a maniac, or over-the-top Luddite, but I am just weirdly serious about personal privacy.

GoyaBean913 · May 2018

@echo-charlietango @katy0990 this is how I've been for a few years now. We used to put everything on fb .we stopped but it's a battle with my family. Now it's this thing where it's fair game if it's a family photo so we're at the point now where we told them we will no longer be in family photos. It's really sad that it came to that. Sharing it on social media is more important then just taking pics for memory sake.

kelseyyh · May 2018

@echo-charlietango @katy0990 I don't think it's weird at all to do this. Personally, it might not work for myself, but my sister has always made an effort to limit the online exposure of her LO. She uses the app Tinybeans to share photos and videos with us - and it's cute because you can look at the calendars and scroll through LO's development. The app also has little features where you can make photo books and such. There's still a bit of Facebook exposure, but I think it's all within the boundaries my sister has set.

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