How did you word your 'baby's here' text/announcement?

[stuckonthesofanow]

Or did the planned wording go out the window in the moment?

People plan this?

DH rang the VIPS (both sets of parents and siblings) and then sent out to a text to the “next important” tier (god that sounds awful! 😂)

Delighted to announce Baby boy born at xx:xx weighing xxxlbs
mother and baby doing well.

pretty standard text!

😂 Apparently so.

DH called his mother and mine and then the world knew before I came round properly from the general anesthetic.

I didn’t know people planned these things 😳😅

We phoned both sets of parents and sent them photos, then our grandparents and sent them photos. And siblings too I think.

Closest friends got texts a little later that day which I’m sure was just a picture of DS and something along the lines of “Meet X! Born this morning, and absolutely perfect.”

My best friend was pregnant at the same time and gave birth 6 weeks before me. She knew she was having a boy and was obsessed with me having one too so they’d grow up “best friends” 🤣 I decided to wait until the birth to find out the sex so after DS was born I sent her a picture along with “I hear Y has an opening for a best friend? X would like to apply” 🤣 she was over the moon lol

How about something like this?
•Prioritise•
Parents, grannies and adult siblings first. Maybe a proper call rather than text?

Then …
WhatsApp group put together in advance for everyone else.

Photo if you have one with
“Introducing baby (name) who arrived this morning/afternoon/evening weighing in at (kilo/lbs & ozs.)
Mother and baby doing well.”

My first thought, too 😂

DH phoned his parents and my mother from a pay phone at the hospital Others had to wait to be told until I had recovered from CS / anaesthetic - Nobody seemed to mind they did not know with minutes. All phone calls no FB or texts but this was in the days before FB WhatsAPP was a thing. Still not sure we wouldn't have done it in the same way today.

DH met both sets of grandparents going up in the lift at the hospital. Apparently, the lift doors opened, DH looked his father straight in the eye and said "Hello, grandad"

We didn’t have mobile phones so I think xh just called both sets of parents. I think they just told everyone else in the family and I’m not sure about friends.
MIL told everyone the wrong name which we had to correct for weeks afterwards.

Just remembered, a friend found out about one of the dc because she bumped into xh in the hospital and he invited her up to see us. I remember being really cross (she wasn’t a close friend and I wasn’t feeling up to visitors).

Or did the planned wording go out the window in the moment?

How can it go out of the window? How many ways are there to plan saying ‘baby is here’, unless you are nutty enough to be thinking of some sort of grim birth announcement poem like how people ask for money in invites.

Call us old fashioned but we called grandparents (apart from DC1 as we were at my mum’s house) and then some specific family/friends. Other than that, it was as it came up or word of mouth.

We did do low key welcome parties where people came and went over the course of an afternoon when they were about 3 weeks old. All organised by my mum because she wanted to do it. I just turned up (or came downstairs!) and sat, chatted, are, drank and fed. Other people cuddled, burped and changed nappies!

I called my mum about 30 mins after dd was born, she called everyone else. Exh called his mum after me, she told his family. Everyone got an email

This made me cry😂🤦‍♀️that's so lovely though.

I just rang people after the babies were born. I didn’t text or message anyone and there was no expectant WhatsApp group!

I wasn’t going to let anyone else ring families and friends with the news. Including dh, why should he get the nice jobs? I did the ringing up, it was nice.

The first person ExH rang was my mum, the 1st person he told was my DSD( 5 at the time). He told her "you have a little sister who would like to meet you tomorrow. She's sleeping now that's why you can't see her tonight",, so mum actually heard it from DSD. He then rang his mum who was annoyed at not being the 1st to know

We phoned my parents landline and asked to speak to our nearly 3 yr old who were babysitting him. We told him the baby is here now. He got very excited and shouted his message to nanny and granddad. "Nanny, granddad. Baby found the door. Baby is with mummy now in hopital. Take me I get shoes." Apparently he ran off to get his shoes and told my dad off for talking on the phone to me and not getting his keys.

Husband phoned his mum and dad. Then his only remaining grandparent. The rest were a text saying baby had been born.

DH waited till a more respectable hour, phoned my parents and his and told them what was going on, then emailed friends with a 'rather earlier than expected, ds is here in SCBU, CMOT is recovering' sort of thing.

Picture of the baby with her name. I'm not very sentimental though.

I just sent a picture of the baby to the family WhatsApp group.

I didn't

I lived abroad so ILs around and my family had down over.

I had ds. They did the telling everyone. I slept 🤣

Flown over.

Oh and both sets were at hospital when I had EMCS which helped!

Sent a pic saying "baby boy born this date at time weighing whatever. Totally besotted and all doing well" or something!

Sent a photo of him and said ‘First Name Second Name Both Our Surnames arrived today at 10.40, weighing 8 pounds and we’re both fine. Now I’m going to sleep.’