MILESTONE - Announcing to Family and Friends

mrspants0809 · May 2020

How did/are you planning on announcing your pregnancy to family and friends? Their reactions? Tell us all about it!

charmedlifex3 · May 2020

I planned to announce on Mother's day to my family / DH's family.
My three year old had a different idea. Like two days after we found out I hear him in the other room "POPPOP! There is a baby coming! I'm going to share my toys, but NOT my elephants." He uses the caller ID to pull up their number and calls them all the time. He's done it for well over a year.
Kiddo.
So we let him call his other grandparents and tell them too. Figured it was only fair.
My dad yelled, made DS go get a grown up and demanded an explanation. Um. I'm 35, married and we've been trying for YEARS which you know? I had a maternal near miss with my son so he kinda panicked at first, but is excited now.
My father in law didn't believe DS. He asked him if he was telling stories? Then when we hopped on the phone and confirmed it, he started sobbing. He's a stage three cancer survivor, and is recently cancer free, so the fact he is here to see this was really emotional for him.

dreamscapes_ · May 2020

As soon as DH realized I was serious, we called my parents and then his parents. I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep it in 😂 My dad said he had to go sit down, but I’m not sure if he was serious. DH’s parents had a mixed reaction. Anyway, after we told them, we called a few super close friends, who understandably freaked out in a good way.

flip25 · May 2020

Before all of the virus stuff hit I was seriously considering starting a cookie business. So it was kind of a no brainer that I would make cookies as the announcement! We gave them out on mother's day along with a frame with the sonogram. We've only told our parents and grandparents so far, but I have some for my siblings ready to give out in a couple weeks! Everyone was so excited! Lots of happy tears!

laurenspdx · May 2020

We were pretty open with a lot of close friends and family that we were trying. It was kind of hard to hide since my SO had a VR and the recovery is a week, so everyone was asking what was going on.

With the quarantine, we’ve been having lots of calls to catch up with people and I think people are just itching for good news. I’ve had a few friends / family members guess (friends who are also pregnant).

We’re waiting to make a big social media announcement for another week or so (once I hit 12-13 weeks) but we’re telling more and more friends. I’ve actually had 4 ultrasounds already due to some early stuff that was going on so we felt pretty good about sharing after the last one.

People seem really keen for exciting news these days so we’re happy to share! Reactions have all been so supportive and positive!

conni0205 · May 2020

We haven’t told many friends yet but we did just tell some family. We didn’t do anything special I would just show them my son on FaceTime and say “I’m gonna be a big brother.” Everyone has been very excited so far. Once we have the ultrasound we will most likely start telling more people. Like close friends, and more family!

bartonolivia · May 2020

We just sent this to everyone and posted it on social media. My family called me crazy and everyone on social media did as well. Doesn’t surprise me, 4 kids is kinda crazy 😂

akoros · May 2020

We told our parents this weekend, after my first ultrasound went well. I was debating waiting, but my husband really wanted to tell his parents when he next spoke to them so I said it was fine. They weren't quite as excited as last time (we lost a pregnancy this past fall, so we're all a bit gunshy), but still happy. That said, my husband, ever the buzzkill, spent a good amount of time telling his mother that she may not be able to see the baby as easily and frequently as she did with our niece and nephew. With COVID he's guessing that my parents and his will need to take turns with some buffer time in between, and he defers to my parents since it's their first grandchild. I didn't know about any of this, and while he's likely right and I appreciate him thinking about it, I'm still like, "c'mon, dude." Meanwhile, I called my mom and after she spent a while venting about all the plumbing repairs in their house and gushing over their new kitten, I reiterated my apology that her Mothers' Day flowers were late (I chose the wrong date by accident when ordering), blaming it on "pregnancy brain". Took a few seconds for her to pick up on it.

lindsaym2106 · May 2020

I have my first appointment on Friday

I will be 10 weeks. We plan to tell our parents after that, then siblings the following week and "officially" post it around father's day when I am in second trimester.
Although my son has sort of told my mom-- he said there is a baby in mama's belly. I played if off and said we looked at my pregnancy pictures..... I am sure they think something is up haha.

feather_heather · May 2020

So far we've told everyone a little bit differently (all via facetime though):

- My parents and siblings - My sister bought a house during lockdown and my parents were up there working on projects, so I asked for a virtual tour of the house. Afterwards when we were all chatting I told them I had a question and I held up the ultrasound and asked them if they thought it was going to be a boy or a girl.

- My husband's mom and sister - We asked them if they had any plans for December 11th, they both laughed and said they're wide open. So we told them they may want to mark it down, and when they asked why we held up the ultrasound.

- My best friend and I are weirdos and jokingly have a list of kids we want to steal because they're so cute. Like we'll see a cute kid and say "ohh they're on our list!" So I called her and told her that I have a baby to add to our list but that we didn't have to steal this one, then I held up the ultrasound.

Other family and friends, and then social media, will find out after we get the results of our NT scan and NIPT testing in a few weeks.

bearmomma1 · May 2020

We are social media announcing tomorrow! Not sure which one to go with 😂😂

willashbaby · May 2020

@bearmomma1 both!

hham10 · May 2020

We’ve basically told all of our family which isn’t that big and our close friends. I mainly sent all a pic of a onesie that said “future quarantennial coming December 2020” nothing crazy. With this being my 4th in 5 year no one probably cares that much 😂 we told our kids a couple of days ago but showing a pic and video from the ultrasound and having them guess who it was. They are 5 and under and it was the cutest sweetest things. They’re so much more excited than I expected!

As far as work peeps since I’m a teacher I haven’t decided how/when I tell them since I’d like them to know before Facebook.

mindyb2019 · May 2020

@bearmomma1 omg this is sooo cute lol love the idea. I love both pics lol. The first one is very sweet.

JBcakes08 · May 2020

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/cm/lgfryzwjxs2r.jpg

I printed off this and put it in my mom's card for Mother's Day. My dad, grandma, and sister were there when I gave it to her so that knocked out telling my whole family at once. My husband only has family that lives out of town so we'll probably mail them this picture after our anatomy scan.

sierra2020 · May 2020

@bearmomma1 omg we were going to do that same announcement idea! My 2 year old son LOVES toy story and already has the toys. So cute!

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