How quick to announce birth of your first born?

[Melittlebee]

I'm due my first long awaited baby in the next couple of days.
Ideally I'd like to tell family & close friends straight away but then leave Facebook announcements and others to when 'I' want to.. after a few days or something like that. However I do want it to be me that announces it and my mum isn't very respectful of this.

When I got pregnant I said I wanted to wait to announce it but she didn't listen and told everyone she knew.

So did you rush to announce the birth or did you wait?

Even if I deactivated fb I'm sure she would still post something on her own fb, some of my friends are friends with her too.
It's a shame this is even an issue but she can be overbearing and won't listen to what I ask of her.
She even rang me just now to let me know that she will be coming over to visit EVERYDAY once the baby is here!

Errrmm .. I'm happy to have lots of visits but not everyday!

Can you avoid telling her when you go into labour?

My parents & ILs lived miles away when we had our baby so they had no reason to know until we made the phone call ourselves after DS arrived and the medical emergencies were over.

And as none of us used Facebook it wasn't an issue, I sent out old fashioned birth announcements .

Tell her if she doesn’t promise not to put anything on Facebook, she will no longer be at the top of your list of people to tell once the baby arrives! Congratulations and hope the birth goes smoothly :)

We engineered our pregnancy announcement so my mum was the last person we told face to face. As soon as we left her house we did the official Facebook post for everyone else. She must have waited 2 seconds after we were out her door to post her own status!

I’m being induced imminently and, although she knows, she is under strict instruction not to open her mouth about it.

My DH and I have also locked down our social media accounts so that, whilst they’re still there and visible, only we can post on our profiles and no one can tag us into things.