Pregnancy Announcement's :)

[brittneysandra]

Share pictures or stories of how you announced to family & friends!!

[brittneysandra]

I have two because we took the second one on the beach in Virginia after I already announced, that was my original plan to announce on the beach but I got too excited and took the first picture and posted it before vacation , haha anyways I like both

[arimaythea]

I have an idea for a Legend of Zelda themed pregnancy announcement for Facebook. I meant to do it once the NT scan looked good, but I keep having events come up where I'll see people in person, so I want to get all the in-person announcements done before doing a FB one. By the time we might actually be done with telling people in-person we might even know the sex, so not sure if that will change our plans or not for how we share on FB.

It's getting interesting now too as it is becoming more obvious physically that I am pregnant - I feel like at this point if I see someone I haven't told yet, they'll basically guess it just by seeing me. My mom shared a photo on FB from Easter and in it, I'm holding DS so he kinda covers me up, but I feel like if you knew what to look for you can tell in that pic that something's up.

[yogini kiki]

SO CUTE brittneysandra!

[thatgirlrachel]

We just told our parents and family in person that DD was going to be a big sister, nothing special. For social media, we posted this pic to Facebook. It's the best picture we could with a toddler but it actually turned out pretty cute.

[brittneysandra]

thatgirlrachel We took like 40000 pictures to get one good picture for Facebook ! lol I feel your pain !!

[Rama]

Apr 17, 2017 8:57:14 GMT -5 arimaythea said:

I have an idea for a Legend of Zelda themed pregnancy announcement for Facebook. I meant to do it once the NT scan looked good, but I keep having events come up where I'll see people in person, so I want to get all the in-person announcements done before doing a FB one. By the time we might actually be done with telling people in-person we might even know the sex, so not sure if that will change our plans or not for how we share on FB.

It's getting interesting now too as it is becoming more obvious physically that I am pregnant - I feel like at this point if I see someone I haven't told yet, they'll basically guess it just by seeing me. My mom shared a photo on FB from Easter and in it, I'm holding DS so he kinda covers me up, but I feel like if you knew what to look for you can tell in that pic that something's up.

*BURNING CURIOUSITY*

[Rama]

All my announcements are sad because I don't announce my pregnancies, I announce my losses. :(

[arimaythea]

Apr 17, 2017 11:20:37 GMT -5 Rama said:

Apr 17, 2017 8:57:14 GMT -5 arimaythea said:

I have an idea for a Legend of Zelda themed pregnancy announcement for Facebook. I meant to do it once the NT scan looked good, but I keep having events come up where I'll see people in person, so I want to get all the in-person announcements done before doing a FB one. By the time we might actually be done with telling people in-person we might even know the sex, so not sure if that will change our plans or not for how we share on FB.

It's getting interesting now too as it is becoming more obvious physically that I am pregnant - I feel like at this point if I see someone I haven't told yet, they'll basically guess it just by seeing me. My mom shared a photo on FB from Easter and in it, I'm holding DS so he kinda covers me up, but I feel like if you knew what to look for you can tell in that pic that something's up.

*BURNING CURIOUSITY*

I've got a little wooden sign from Etsy that says "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." with a picture of a heart container (instead of a sword).  Then I got a plush heart container and a little Link inspired shirt for DS to wear (also both from Etsy).  I was going to take a photo of me holding the heart container plush over my belly, and another of DS holding the heart container plush (depending on how well he cooperates).  Then come up with something to write on the post about adding a sibling to the family.  

I'll post the final version here once we actually take all the pictures lol.

[Rama]

Apr 17, 2017 11:30:00 GMT -5 arimaythea said:

Apr 17, 2017 11:20:37 GMT -5 Rama said:

*BURNING CURIOUSITY*

I've got a little wooden sign from Etsy that says "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." with a picture of a heart container (instead of a sword).  Then I got a plush heart container and a little Link inspired shirt for DS to wear (also both from Etsy).  I was going to take a photo of me holding the heart container plush over my belly, and another of DS holding the heart container plush (depending on how well he cooperates).  Then come up with something to write on the post about adding a sibling to the family.  

I'll post the final version here once we actually take all the pictures lol.

Yaaaaaaaassssssss

[Rama]

Apr 17, 2017 11:52:45 GMT -5 @moonandback141 said:

((Hugs)) Rama . How have you been doing through everything?

I'm alright.  Pretty standard stuff -- okay, sad, miss my kids, stuff like that.  I'm okay, though.  I've had so much support from so many places and I'm so #blessed for it. :) <3

[Cythe]

After years of thinking of ways we'd announce, my ambition level was pretty low so I just used the Baby Pics app to create this. I was going to actually do the watercolor and hand paint it all, but ugh this took me like 5 minutes.

[blackmamba]

For some reason DS's daycare does school pictures in March. So we gave our families Easter cards with DS's school pic and then a copy of the most recent ultrasound that said Baby <LAST NAME> #2 Due October 2017.

I've decided not to announce on Facebook.

[racegurl87]

My mom, step dad, sister, mil, and fil know already. I'm making the Facebook announcement after I finish my half marathon on Mother's Day

[riverraine]

We've just told our family and friends in person, but nothing special. I'm not planning to announce on Facebook, but I'm not necessarily trying to hide it either. People will eventually see a pic of me with a big bump or they'll see a pic of the new baby and figure it out.

[Rama]

Apr 17, 2017 13:21:47 GMT -5 riverraine said:

We've just told our family and friends in person, but nothing special. I'm not planning to announce on Facebook, but I'm not necessarily trying to hide it either. People will eventually see a pic of me with a big bump or they'll see a pic of the new baby and figure it out.

This is probably what we would have/will do, too.

[kj808]

We finally did all of our announcing this past weekend! We texted a pic of our youngest in a "Promoted to Big Brother" t-shirt to our close family and friends.

For our parents and my SIL's family, we took them to dinner on Thursday night and I was about to take a pic of everyone at the restaurant when instead of "Say cheese!" DH said, "Say XXX's pregnant!" It was anti-climatic because DH didn't say it loud enough so not everyone heard and THEN he said, "just kidding!" He totally ruined it, but everyone figured it out eventually.

ETA: Still deciding when/if we'll announce on Facebook.

[mrstommyshelby]

So many great announcements in this thread! Love the pictures.

@arimythea (crossing my fingers this is your tag) I loved Zelda when I was younger! I played it on the original Nintendo.

We have never done a big announcement thing. Another FFFC from me, I'm not on FB! 😳

[BurritosAtEveryMeal]

We just took pics for family and friends. DS had a big brother shirt. He's just a blur in constant motion.

No FB announcement yet. Probably after the a/s.

[Deleted]

We put DS in an "Awesome Brother" shirt and went to my parents. 2 hours and they didn't notice until I told them to read his shirt. Then my mom asked where he got it and why would we buy that shirt..long pause...are you pregnant?!! She has been spreading the word to everyone she knows ever since.

H just told his parents over lunch one day. We probably won't do a FB announcement. With DS people figured it out when they were able to see a bump in photos. We are boring.

[gamergirl360]

I sent this to a few family members who we don't see very often, and will used it to announce on facebook after our appointment this Thursday. PDQ
poof

[thechickencoop]

Apr 17, 2017 11:21:02 GMT -5 Rama said:

All my announcements are sad because I don't announce my pregnancies, I announce my losses.

[rachydc]

I did the munchkins announcement at work this morning, it was so anti-climatic. I knew it would be, my office is full of stuffy robots. I honestly just wanted an excuse to eat a ton of munchkins.

We'll announce on social media once we find out the sex. No ideas yet on how. Pinterest to the rescue!

[shytimes]

Haven't given this much thought. I know we will announce because lots of friends and family overseas and it's how they like to feel connected. I just always worry I'm going to trigger someone going through a loss or IF.

[Cythe]

Apr 18, 2017 7:51:45 GMT -5 shytimes said:

Haven't given this much thought. I know we will announce because lots of friends and family overseas and it's how they like to feel connected. I just always worry I'm going to trigger someone going through a loss or IF.

I know everyone is different in how they react to pregnancy announcements, but I will say that mine got a few friends who I haven't spoken to since HS who messaged me and thanked me for being open about my IF - I wasn't previously out of FB but did include it when I announced.

I talked to most of them for a while, and they opened up about their struggles as well.

[shytimes]

Cythe interesting. We are open about the issue IRL. But we haven't included in our announcements. Something to consider.

[BurritosAtEveryMeal]

@musicboxdancr LOL those pictures are too much!

[Rama]

Apr 18, 2017 13:31:43 GMT -5 @musicboxdancr said:

Apr 17, 2017 11:21:02 GMT -5 Rama said:

All my announcements are sad because I don't announce my pregnancies, I announce my losses. :(

We announced both of our losses too, so much love to you mama <3 In the corner of our chalkboard we use for all our photos we have a memorial of both our angels just so they are always apart of it too <3

That's awesome!  I can kind of see them in the left corner. :)

[rachydc]

Here's what we just posted to social media. PLEASE DONT QUOTE  

DD was nicknamed "Boss Lady" by daycare and now the entire school knows her by that name, so this only seemed fitting!

[brittneysandra]

Omg!!! Love all of these!! @musicboxdancr dying at the second picture!!