To ask for your best pregnancy announcement?

[Sparkle2020]

Have never been one for soppy pregnancy announcements (like the American videos you see where they do stuff like give a baby grow that says promoted to grandpa etc and everyone starts crying lol), but I’m 16 months into ttc and I’m starting to fantasise about announcements more everyday 😂😂.

If anyone else is the same, hit me with your best soppy announcement?

NO- just don't do it.

The best is to tell people face to face with no additions

Anything else is just awful, so cringe worthy.

Agree with @lostinBristol I’m afraid! But good luck and hope things work out soon for you. It took us quite a while to conceive too so i know where you are coming from.

All of that stuff is just a marketing ploy by the makers of crap you don't need - personalised babygros, balloons, etc, etc.

Soppy announcements are awful.

@lostinbristol hahah I wouldn’t, I’m not cheesy enough but the longer I’m ttc the more I see why people do it

A little different but my DH and I are TTC now. I've always thought that if I found out I was pregnant when he wasnt present I will buy a newborn (insert DH's favourite football team here) babygro.
May be 'I'm going to be sick in my mouth' to some people but I know he will appreciate and love it so
Havent thought about how I would tell anyone else! But then, no pregnant yet so I've got time for that

Taken us 2.5 years and I didn't want to announce in a big showy way at all after the journey it's been. I told my immediate family by message so they all found out at the same time, just sent them a scan photo and said 'surprise'. We told DH's parents in person because we were in the area.

I remember thinking about fancy announcements when I was about a year in or just under, but after two chemicals etc it's just not important to me now!

Just don't, it's so cringe. The amount of people who give a shit is much smaller than you imagine.

Take out an advert in the local paper with your pregnancy test and 'guess who?' under it.

@20wedding19 we did a similar thing.

I was 6 weeks pregnant on Christmas Day, so we decided to buy some "announcement gifts" but put them to one side. We went for an early scan on the 23rd and agreed that if we saw a heartbeat we would give them the gifts and make a thing of it. If not, we would probably still have said something as they would probably all be wondering why I wasn't drinking on Christmas Day but we would have been a bit more serious about it, just in case.

Well the heartbeat was there and going strong, so my mum (- who likes to drink one drink verrrrrry slowly in the evening -) got an engraved glass with "grandma since 2018". We gave my MIL (- a keen knitter -) a book of baby clothes knitting patterns, and for my FIL (who has been to every home game with my husband for the best part of 20 years) we got a babygrow that said "I like watching X team with my grandad"

They opened the gifts at the same time and we managed to surreptitiously film them, but didn't put the videos on Fb or the internet or anything.

They probably my favourite ever videos and I always watch them again if I'm having a bad day!

I wouldnt - I think its a bit tacky. Same as gender reveal parties. PP above is correct in saying a lot less people give a crap that you think.

I just phoned or went to see the important people. Everyone else just kinda found out through word of mouth, or i'd tell them if it came up. Im 31 weeks now and theres no hiding it, so everyone knows.

Oh, but I should probably mention that (having been on mumsnet for about 2 years now) I've come to realise that I am basically 98% "cringe" according to mumsnet posters

Good job I don't give a shit

Vive la cringe xx

I've always thought that if I found out I was pregnant when he wasnt present I will buy a newborn (insert DH's favourite football team here) babygro.

I always thought I'd do something like this, we spent a long time TTC with a loss along the way so I had lots of time to think about it.

What actually happened was that I went running into the living room and started hopping around in front of DH, stark naked and waving around a still dripping pregnancy test whilst gibbering "IMPREGNANTOHMYGODIMPREGNANTHOLYSHITFHDUDHEBRBDUXUDNEN" or words to that effect.

I don’t think announcements for close family are cringe eg. giving grandparents little gifts or whatnot . I think that’s lovely. However on a wider scale I don’t think those types of announcements are needed. People just don’t care.

My mum allegedly said to her mother "hello grandma" a few times before she got it. But she was 17. At 22 weeks I did do the cheesy thing of sending in my two daughters to a family dinner wearing the shirts saying I'm going to be a big sister and I'm going to be a big sister .... again. The girls were pre teensthough and very smug they knew before anyone else only by a week. There are some amusing t shirts out there for announcements.
I am the opposite and fantasise about just turning up with a baby because I hate people going on about pregnancy etc

Just tell people in person with no fuss. Big cringeworthy reveals are awful and no one wants to see a big announcement that someone has had unprotected sex.

Please don’t. No one cares

A girl I know recently announced her pregnancy with a video of her dancing. She’s a dance teacher/choreographer. It was actually fantastic. Not something I’d have the balls to do but she totally pulled it off.

My husband didn't appreciate they way I casually told him 'peed on a stick today, I'm pregnant'. But wouldnt have appreciated how we made my grandma a cake with a scan picture on that said great grandma. ( she's had a shit time and I was trying to cheer her up by making it a bit special, everyone else I just told)

We didn’t do a huge announcement, but then again they weren’t really a thing in the late 2000s (at least as much as they are now) and we were worried about losing another baby. I’d love to get a t-shirt or something when my DC are at that stage of life.

Well don't do what I did and stick a positive test result under his nose whilst prodding him when he's fast asleep. Especially if it's an unplanned third baby!

Please don’t. No one cares

I disagree. Of course they do. Although If you're in a family where people would be dismissive and derivative of it then I can understand why you wouldn't.

I got my dad a "Grandad est 2016" mug and have my DM a baby grow with "Nana's little sunshine" or something on it, got them to open it together at Sunday tea and then showed them the 12 week scan. They were thrilled. Everybody shed a tear of happiness, it was lovely. Then we just let the news filter out.

We didn’t do any kind of big announcement generally but I was 10 ish weeks at Christmas and we’d had a couple of early scans showing everything was looking ok (previous losses) so did give my grandparents a ‘happy Christmas great grandparents’ card with the scan picture inside. It was a lovely moment and a very happy memory but private - I wasn’t in to sharing in a big way.

I think a lot of PP are being a bit harsh, and also immediately assuming you'd broadcast this announcement to the entire world.

I think it's nice to find a special way to announce it to your family. One of my friends dressed her first born in a t shirt saying "going to be a big brother in 2019", and waited until the grandparents noticed it. Another wrapped up their favourite baby book as a Christmas present and gave it to their parents as part of their Christmas presents with an inscription about reading it to their first grandchild.

When we were TTC we were shopping for a baby present for a friend and My DH pointed out a babygrow and said it was really cute. So I went back without him and bought it, and when I got a positive test I wrapped it up in the babygrow and gave it to him. We lost that pregnancy sadly, but the memory of how excited he was when he figured out what the present meant is one of the lovely memories I treasure from that pregnancy.

Lots of people deliberately missing the point of the thread OP

With DD2, we put DD1 in a t-shirt that said "big sister", took her to a family gathering, and waited. Took 3 hours for the first person to read it! it went down really well though.

With the DTs, we didn't tell DH's parents it was twins, just that I was expecting again (We only see them a couple of times per year so thought it would be a nice surprise for Christmas as they were due around then). So glad we didn't tell them. We just skyped them with the new arrival on show, then panned round to the second baby as we were talking. Best decision we ever made to keep that secret. Their reaction was amazing!