How are you telling social media?

kbkincle · January 2020

Amid all the more stressful things that come with prepping for our first child, my husband & I are having fun trying to figure out what to post to social media, when the time comes for us to want to share more broadly. We don't want to do anything huge or obnoxious or gendered, but we do want to come up with something that feels like us & will just make for a happy, fun announcement.

How are you planning to announce your pregnancy on social media, if at all? If you have other kids, how did you announce it in the past? Anything you've seen other people do that you really loved or, conversely, really hated?

psychobutthead · January 2020

We aren't planning to until its born.

With my son we posted his ultrasounds. When i had my daughter 12 years ago I posted my pregnancy ticker to my myspace account and let people i went to school with figure it out that way.

There are tons of cute ways to announce to social media. I feel like a current trend is using a letterboard putting your due date on it and laying your ultrasound on top.

sarah0985 · January 2020

We did a cute collage with text, an u/s, photo of h and I, and a onesie. We did on or around New Years which wound up being 21-22ish weeks. This time I post even less on fb than back then and am even more secretive about bigger things (ie. we didn’t post when we bought our house, my daughters health issues, or when my fil passed) and we’ve discussed not posting. I feel like if I don’t feel the need to tell you in person, you probably don’t need to know nor honestly care. Sure people will be happy and like it and say congrats but the people i care about I’ll make sure they know personally 🤷‍♀️ I also have a really weird relationship toward social media. We may still decide to post something. Will see as time goes on but at this point I don’t feel the desire

samsonator · January 2020

I'll do the same as I did with my daughter. Just post a bump picture when I'm 6-7 months if not more. I won't announce on FB, just Instagram where I have fewer / more personal followers.

alleykat2020 · January 2020

Last time, we announced on New Years with "We'll be popping bottles of a different kind!" and the typical baby shoes pic. Not sure what we will do this time. We were going to do it around Valentine's day but it doesn't look like it will be feasible as we have some people we want to tell in person who we wont see before then.

radiohd18 · January 2020

I won't tell the world until after the baby is born. That's how I did it last time and most people didn't even know I was pregnant. I don't like fielding a ton of questions and opinions from friends/family so this made it easier. I never hid the pregnancy but I didn't billboard it.

RedBaramid · January 2020

I think we're just going to do a family picture, something mostly candid, and have my daughter wearing a "Big Sister" shirt and let people notice that way. I'll probably caption it something like "More big changes for our little family are coming!" Our family went through a big transition last year and so I feel like this is vague enough to not alert people who won't necessarily care or pay attention anyway, but with her and the shirt should be bold enough to alert those who would care. Maybe I'll be showing, maybe I won't. We're waiting to see how some appointments go and trying to buy time for my cousins adoption situation before we go full out.

I'm going to be sharing on social media for sure though, my friends and family are too spread and though there are friends that already know, there are many that don't and who I would share this with, we're just all spread too far away anymore. My Instagram following is much smaller and I might add a few more slides to that post with an ultrasound photo. My Instagram is a lot more locked down and the audience is smaller and really filled with only the close friends who would want all the details. The only reason I'm cross posting is most of the older family members don't use insta, just FB.

cornichonmam · January 2020

Like with DS we will be waiting to post on social media until after we've told every one that we are going to see in person first. I have quite a lot of extended family on FB and I think it's nice to see what everyone is doing in their lives so I'll be posting on there mostly for them. I don't really post anywhere else.

coldlife · January 2020

We have never done anything crazy. With our first, I did a picture of a handmade ornament with baby coming in June. With my second, just a bump shot and baby #2 in Feb. I plan to do the same this time at some point within the next few weeks. I'm almost 13 weeks now.

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