Announcement AW Thread

[babycowbell]

Is anyone planning to do a fun announcement for work? I've been debating. At first that sounded totally awkward to me but then actually telling my group sounds awkward too. I'm in finance and it's kind of an awkward bunch, very mixed personalities, about 20 people and in the 3+ years I've been here no one has ever been pregnant. I'm basically one of just a couple people who fit the "might get pregnant" type demographic. I was thinking of just getting donuts and putting a sign that says "Eat up! I don't want to be the only one with a growing belly. Babycowbell Baby arriving in December. " I'm already dreading the passive aggressive comments about me taking maternity leave during the busiest time of year.

[littlelion]

babycowbell I mentioned last week that I bought munchkins to work and when a couple of the women came over I said I had a new munchkin and shared the ultrasound pic. Well, this week we had a team mtg followed by the sox outing. In the meeting we went around and said our name, prev work history and a fun fact. It was about 3 teams ~ 20 ppl total. I was so nervous I barely said much before blurting "my fun fact is that I'm expecting my 2nd baby this Dec".

I'm so glad the majority of my duties are already documented. I'm working on finalizing the process on 2 major reports and then I'll doc and hopefully start training someone at the end of summer.

[babycowbell]

littlelion oh yes, now I remember the munchkins story. Very cute! I thought about announcing it in a our team meeting since there's always a time for random work updates. I hate being the center of attention though so that sounds like it would make me nervous too!

[Deleted]

babycowbell, I'm hoping I can make it one more week without anyone finding out. I'm certain people are talking(we're a gossipy group) since I have my water bottle with me everywhere and have been in the bathroom all the time to pee. I plan on telling my principal over the summer, but no one else. My friend group at work all knows that we've been going through IF treatments so I'd like to do something fun, but due to trainings the first week teachers are back I won't see them all at the same time so whatever I do will be a little anti-climactic.

[lola]

We told my brother and his wife by putting a "big cousin" shirt on my niece. My sister in law read the shirt out loud, and immediately went back to what she was doing with no reaction. My brother just looked at me, smiled, and shook his head. Then we all had a good laugh once she finally figured it out, after my mom kept saying, "Did you read the shirt? What does that mean?" She was clueless, and it was adorable.

I had big plans to tell my two supervisors this week, because I wanted them to hear it from me in person before everyone else and we work in different locations. At the dinner table, after a toast, our VP just looked at me and said, "So when's the baby due!?" And I laughed and said, "The baby's due in December." I knew that she must've figured it out, so it was hilarious and a great way to break the ice. I've been so nervous about telling them.

I also told them I didn't really want to be the one to make a big announcement becuase I don't like that kind of attention. We work in PR, so my supervisors have decided to send out a press release to our team, once I'm ready to share the news. I think it will be super cute, and keep me from having to tell everyone myself.

[emilie]

I work in the not-most-supportive environment and I don't plan to tell them until July. Definitely no cute announcements or anything like that. If I start showing before then they can speculate all they want, but the hell I'm going to tell them before I tell my family.

[sdgal]

That's tough emilie

I didn't plan on it, but I had to tell my boss. I'm a research scientist and he was telling me about a new project we were going to work on but I needed to decline because it potentially deals with higher level toxic compounds. He now wants me to tell our department head so we can plan and make sure that we are aware of all and any extra safety concerns.

[babycowbell]

May 27, 2016 13:36:31 GMT -5 emilie said:

I work in the not-most-supportive environment and I don't plan to tell them until July. Definitely no cute announcements or anything like that. If I start showing before then they can speculate all they want, but the hell I'm going to tell them before I tell my family.

That sucks that they're not supportive. I predict about 50% of people in my group will squee and be excited, 25% will be neutral and consider it a non event and 25% will focus on themselves and how inconvenient it's going to be for them

[mommytoava]

I haven't told my boss yet, but will this week. This is my announcement for Facebook, waiting until after my next appointment to post it.

[Becca]

I had a student come out ask ask me on Friday if I was pregnant, she is a really shy student so I quietly told her yes. She went running back to her friends and they all squealed and giggled. By the time next period started everyone knew. I'm starting to show already so I was wondering when they would figure it out.

We also told my grandfather over the weekend he was finally going to be a great grandfather. He started crying. He then went and pulled out some baby hats my grandmother had started to knit before she passed away. I'm going to have my MIL finish them up for us.

[sdgal]

Becca that's so sweet that your Grandfather started crying and shared the baby hats!!


I actually got a half baked apology and congratulations text message from my sister yesterday.

[Winnifred]

OMG Becca, allow me to wipe away my tears while I work - that is so sweet!

I was just thinking of posting something this morning about telling my boss/coworkers, but maybe this is the right place since the conversation has already gone there. I've been really nervous to tell everyone for some reason. But I'm also SO ready to be completely public at this point. We're still waiting until Father's Day to announce online, and I have to wait until my boss comes back from vacation next week to tell her.

I was thinking of picking up a bunch of pink donuts later next week to announce to everyone at once, I can't imagine the awkward individual announcements. I haven't been here a full year yet and no one has been pregnant the entire time so I'll also ask my boss about what other people have done in the past. And I know I have a coworker who is currently TTC so I'll tell her in private first. If anyone has other ideas for sharing with coworkers, I'm all ears!

[babycowbell]

Winnifred I think I'm going to do the donut thing too. I was going to do it today but chickened out. I don't know why I'm so nervous about it. It happens to be national donut day today so I probably should have gone for it! When I initially saw the donut thing on Pinterest I thought "no way, not doing that" but now the idea of individual announcements sounds terrible. I hate being the center of attention! Maybe Monday will be the day. We have about 350 employees at my location and I swear there is only like one pregnant lady a year and never in my department so I feel super awkward about it. I'm weird. My husband keeps saying I'm totally overthinking this, and he's right.

[sdgal]

I just announced on Facebook with this picture

[Winnifred]

sdgal , so cute! Congrats on coming out!

You also reminded me to add my own from last weekend:





We used the onesie picture on facebook and the other photo I shared with coworkers. We have so many awesome pictures from our little photo shoot - I don't really look pregnant at all in most of them but I think we'll be framing a couple just because we haven't had pictures taken in SO LONG!

Anyone else need to add their announcements?? I want to see!!

[sdgal]

So cute Winnifred!!

I haven't thought about coming out at work. I've told my boss and my department head. There's a happy hour on Friday, that I might just make a point of ordering "just a lemonade for me" or something like that.

[Winnifred]

sdgal, I found it incredibly awkward to come out at work!! I thought of bringing in pink donuts but didn't do it... I ended up telling my immediate coworkers and then sending an email to everyone else. It was getting awkward because people would mention the pregnancy in front of others, not realizing they didn't know, and it was embarrassing for them. I personally didn't care! So I sent an email to everyone. Just do what feels best for you, I like the idea you have!

[sdgal]

Winnifred, Yeah, we haven't had a pregnancy in our department in 5 years, and I remember then, neither lady did any announcement.
One was my very private friend, who I finally said, "So-and-so, do you have anything you want to talk about?" when she couldn't hide it anymore. And the other was a lady who struggled with IF for a long time.

[tbonequeen13]

I'm late the party, but here's ours (assuming the link works)....

[WineNChocolate]

May 25, 2016 7:49:21 GMT -5 hmr11913 said:

We haven't posted on FB yet.... but we just got G's 12 month pictures back this week and we plan to post this one after her birthday party (which is on the 4th)....

Omg this announcement eat her up!!

[requiressnacks]

I love all these announcements! I think I might be close to making a social media announcement. But I don't have anything nearly as cute as these.

[hmr11913]

Thank you WineNChocolate!!!!!!!!! I think she's pretty cute too

[WineNChocolate]

crimpgirl great minds think alike...cowboy boots

[fikafairy67]

I think we are doing this. DH wanted to do a Mario kart-type theme, complete with a video, and I just couldn't pull that together. However, when we do the gender announcement, we are going to have a "race" to announce whether it's a boy or girl (e.g. baby mario or baby peach wins).

What do you think??

[littlelion]

fikafairy67 very cute way to announce!

[sdgal]

So cute fikafairy67 !! We love Mario and Nintendo too.

This was our other onesie option

[kaydee0402]

fikafairy67, so cute!

@kc295905, your son is adorable and I love that shirt. I might have to get a similar one for DS.

[harfamilyof3]

We did a Fourth of July theme to post on Facebook for the holiday weekend and sent post cards to extended family

[WineNChocolate]

Dead so cute!!

Jun 24, 2016 19:37:08 GMT -5 harfamilyof3 said:

We did a Fourth of July theme to post on Facebook for the holiday weekend and sent post cards to extended family