@paytonpedro these are great! I’m still not sure what I want to do, but definitely love the idea of a nod to the baby we lost. I also feel Ike it’s hard to come up with something when it’s the 5th, not announcement wise, but in general telling our family. I don’t really think I’ll do an announcement on fb at all, probably not until birth (as long as everything goes as planned).
The only good thing I can think of to tell our family is getting one of those old school viewfinder things and having the reel just be of our kids and then a random ultrasound photo in it. Sort of nonchalant and unassuming, which is what I want this time.
@and_peggy that’s how I feel about #3 lol. It was a big to-do with my last 2 but this time I want something more unassuming as well. I have a shirt that says baby on board so I might just wear that one day lol. I did see a funny one on Pinterest for baby #5- something like “my husband is good at many things but pulling out isn’t one of them, baby #5 coming …..” I chuckled lol.
As for fb, I don’t even use it any more so I don’t know that I’ll even put anything out there after the birth. But for my other two, I didn’t announce until the day they were born and had soooo many people say “I didn’t even know you were pregnant”. Lol.
I'm not an announcement person. Didn't do one for either of my other two. This year I'm thinking we just not tell anybody and then we tell the kids (3 and 6) and let them take care of the rest 🤣🤣🤣
This is my inspo to announce the pregnancy with my Belly Buddy, probably around 20 weeks. It’s more so that people who run into me aren’t confused when I start showing. I’m thinking of writing on the letter board “Their pea, my pod.”
We're announcing to my family over new years when we travel to see my mom, I'm getting her this candle And then I bought some cute d&d character sheets that we're gonna fill out as baby B and post it with this for our wider circle announcement, probably in February
Since this is our third, DH wants to keep it simple for the family. We bought this shirt for DD#2 to wear at Christmas. We do Christmas (with the big family) in pajamas. Once it’s time to change we’ll just change her into this.
As I mentioned above, this is what I think I’m going to do. It’ll be nonchalant. Probably just tell my family I used to love these things and wanted to get one for the kids. Then the reel will be their photos and an ultrasound.
@daffodil_shoe I love all the syringes (? right) in a heart shape. Reminds me of when my daughter graduated from oxygen in the NICU and we did all her O2 supplies in a heart, too. So cute.
Here's what we're doing on Christmas with family - scratchers:
I mentioned this in my intro, but I don't plan on telling my husband quite yet. Since we are so close to Christmas, I want to surprise him on Christmas morning. I ordered this for my son, will wrap it, and have my son open it on Christmas morning.
We'll see how things feel, but possibly my son will wear it to family gatherings on Christmas day. I'm undecided.
I have signs for my 3 kids. They day "Been There", "Done That" & "Now It's My Turn to be a Big Sister Coming August 2022! I am going to take pictures with my kids holding them, then get them printed up and give the pictures to my mom, my sister and then my in-laws. I may do shirts for my kids but I am not sure about that yet. My mom & My sister will find out at the end of January. We will tell my in-laws in early feb, because they can't keep anything a secret. We will be doing a picture announcement at our 3rd child's 2nd birthday party on Feb. 5. This is baby number 4 for us, so we are thinking differently than before.
I ordered these books from Amazon to tell our parents. The plan is to put an ultrasound photo on the inside cover. As for social media- we’re still clueless.
We told my husband’s parents it was the reason we wouldn’t see the rest of the family at Christmas (they had covid). Not the most sincere way but otherwise we just sounded like jerks for sitting out on Christmas. My parents still don’t know. Eventually for social media I’ll do some kind of code snippet (I’m a programmer) and pay tribute to anyone who’s endured a miscarriage alone. So nothing elaborate or exciting, but I’m kind of a private person so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is the announcement we did for our last pregnancy for our rainbow baby. This time around I have no ideas yet, I want to find a cute third kid announcement but nothing I’ve seen has inspired me so far.
Me: 35 H: 35 Married: 4/5/13 "You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I will always love you. That's where I'll be waiting." ~Peter Pan
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BFP #1: 11/12/12 EDD 7/25/13 Baby boy: 7/27/13 BFP #2: 10/29/17 MMC dx @ 9 weeks BFP #3: 2/2/18 MC 2/7/18 BFP #4: 3/2/18 MC 3/9/18 RPL testing and hysteroscopy: all normal BFP #5: 4/1/18 MMC dx @ 14 weeks ----> genetically normal girl Hysteroscopy to remove scar tissue 9/28 BFP #6 11/5/18 EDD 7/20/19 Rainbow baby girl born 7/23/19 BFP #7 12/8/2021 EDD 8/22/2022
For my husband’s family, we plan to take a group photo that will actually be a video. I’ll ask my husband to help me straighten the camera, when in reality, we’ll just stand beside it and unzip our jackets to reveal these shirts. For my brother and his wife, who are the only other married siblings, we will get these cozies that will each say aunt and uncle. We’ll just bring them coffees and have the camera rolling.My Dad once said that he hoped to one day open a card that says “Happy Birthday Grandpa” so I got this jumbo one on Amazon. I’ll probably put a sonogram picture inside too. The end of the first trimester is his birthday week, so it lines up perfectly! His birthday gift will be a Promoted to Grandpa mug, and a Grandpa and Me baby book. He’ll be the first we announce it to, and then for mom, I plan to put a bun in their oven and when she’s home from work, I’ll tell her I left something in the oven for her. She doesn’t surprise easily, so I think the puzzle aspect will make it fun. I’ll be recording her reaction, but have the sonogram in my hand in case she doesn’t get it quickly.😂We’ll get something like this to gift both of our parents when we announce it to them and it’ll have the sonogram picture in it. This and our other shirts will be a fun way to announce it to more people as well! I love planning fun surprises and this is the first baby, grand baby, niece, or nephew, so it’ll be a little extra.
For my best friend, I’m going to make a card and on the inside have a sonogram and add a speech bubble that says “can I get a plus one?” Because she’s getting married when I’ll be 7 months pregnant and I’m one of her bridesmaids. (Although she doesn’t know we’re trying, over a year ago, we discussed her favorite dresses and one included maternity so I get to have one of her top two favorite dresses for me.)
I ordered this from Etsy for DD. I’ve been contemplating doing a Valentine’s Day announcement. Don’t judge me but I LOVE Valentine’s Day. My mom was always my valentine growing up and I found it to be special.
I am having my friend make us some Valentine’s shirts. We are doing family photos next weekend for my third and seconds’s birthdays and I’m going to get Mary to take a picture of all of us in our shirts. Mine has a little heart cutout of the big heart on my shirt. I’m thinking I may actually post around Valentine’s Day. It’s almost second trimester for me and we will have had our second scan the week before. We’ll see. I may chicken out too.
Finally shared with my parents. They showed us their new house so I told them I got them a house warming gift. Mom opened and pulled out a Onezie that said "sometimes when you pray for a miracle " (they got pretty excited) and I pushed the bag to my dad so he could open up the rest and he pulled out " God gives you two" Mom understood immediately, Dad it took a second ! They couldn't stop talking about it all night. We showed my FIL our US photo and he immediately recognized twins.
@mdfarmchick same here! My 13 week U/S is scheduled for the week before valentine's. If everything goes well, we'll tell our parents and close family that week, and public announcement on the 14th.
So we just went and told our favorite neighbors across the street. They totally guessed it before we even said anything! They’re in their 60s and have like 11 grandkids already so their pregnancy-announcement-radar is strong!
Re: Announcements
The only good thing I can think of to tell our family is getting one of those old school viewfinder things and having the reel just be of our kids and then a random ultrasound photo in it. Sort of nonchalant and unassuming, which is what I want this time.
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5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
And then I bought some cute d&d character sheets that we're gonna fill out as baby B and post it with this for our wider circle announcement, probably in February
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
@ambelance the candle is perfect, I’m guilty of smelling and not reading labels.
@paytonpedro those are great, you’re very creative and I love that onesie!
@daffodil_shoe I love all the syringes (? right) in a heart shape. Reminds me of when my daughter graduated from oxygen in the NICU and we did all her O2 supplies in a heart, too. So cute.
Here's what we're doing on Christmas with family - scratchers:
but this is how we told our parents today !!
We'll see how things feel, but possibly my son will wear it to family gatherings on Christmas day. I'm undecided.
Married: 4/5/13
"You know that place between sleep and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I will always love you.
That's where I'll be waiting."
~Peter Pan
*TW*
BFP #2: 10/29/17 MMC dx @ 9 weeks
BFP #3: 2/2/18 MC 2/7/18
BFP #4: 3/2/18 MC 3/9/18
RPL testing and hysteroscopy: all normal
BFP #5: 4/1/18 MMC dx @ 14 weeks ----> genetically normal girl
Hysteroscopy to remove scar tissue 9/28
BFP #6 11/5/18 EDD 7/20/19
BFP #7 12/8/2021 EDD 8/22/2022
I haven't told my parents yet but I know it will be very emotional. I wish we could do it in person but I know my heart will be full either way.