How did you tell people you were pregnant?

[Clairejessicamiller]

I've not got my 12 weeks scan for 3 weeks yet but am thinking of maybe doing something fun to announce baby to friends and family who do t already know if I ever get up off the coach! :D has anyone got any ideas or anything that they did? Thanks

DAMMIT. wrote a long post with pictures and then pressed the wrong button and lost it all.... Here goes again!

Told DH by waking him up at 6am with a picture of 3 positive tests I had taken that morning. Once I told him I wasn't joking, we had a cuddle and went back to sleep as it was a Saturday ;) He told me afterwards hes glad he just saw a pic, and not the sticks themselves!

Told the in-laws with a card that said "We're going to need a bigger boat" and a picture from Jaws, as they live on a canal boat. Inside said "We owe you a Grandchild, due December 2014". MIL almost fell over with excitment! (First Grandchild for MIL, 3rd for Step-FIL)

Told my parents with mugs saying "Upgrading to Grandma/Grandad" with a loading bar and an estimated completion date (both are/used to be software technicians, First Grandchild for both)

Tried to tell my best friend by dropping hints all day and talking about babies.... she was trying to tell me the same thing and we missed each other completely. Ooops! Admitted it to each other the next day, and shes due 2 weeks before me.

Told our other close friends over dinner, invited them over and announced while cooking the spag bol with beers/wines/drinks in hand :)

Was hospitalised at 9week for Hyperemesis, but once we got all-clear at 12/13 week scan, we announced on facebook (the bane of DH's life) with a photo of our dog saying "Mum and Dad are getting me a human for Christmas!"

Told some people outright (ie, I'm pregnant) - work, grandparents, siblings etc. As its our first, we wanted it to be special for us and for those close to us.

For our immediate family , we made up a daft reason why we needed a picture of them all together then as I sat in the middle of everyone my partner said, '3...2...1... Litt

Whoops! I'm sure you can guess what he said! Anyway, it made for a very funny picture!

This time round we didn't do anything, just told people normally.

I've told a couple of close friends already, but will do a photo for instagram/facebook.

I have a set of 3 wire baskets numbered, 1, 2, 3. I'm going to put DC1 and 2 in the appropriate basket with no.3 empty, add text "Coming soon" or whathave you. Figured when we find out the gender, will do the same pic with pink or blue balloons attached to no.3, then when baby is born, same pic, with baby in it.

what other people said about not wanting to rub it in people's faces. Fine for grandparents though

And before the usual people say "You should always be happy for friends or you are a miserable bitch" or whatever. That's simply not true.

With DD our scan was day before FIL 65th birthday. We handed him a birthday card and said "just another gift, hope you like it as we can't take it back" and inside was the scan

For my parents we put scan in a Christmas card saying "grandparents" on the front of it.

For others it was just "I'm pregnant" job

For DS we told in laws with "DD is going to be a big sister" and my mum with just placing the scan pic on coffee table and waited for her to notice

I was so pleased to get to a healthy 12 week scan after mmc etc that I almost didn't worry about having a fun way but at work I did end up doing a fun thing
Basically I had my scan photo but wanted to send it digitally to a few people. I needed it scanned in at work so without saying what it was asked a colleague oh could you scan this for me passed her photo ... It took her a few moments to work out what it was then a crowd gathered round desk
Bosses already knew as I'd had to warn them as I feared having another mc!

with my parents I asked them 'so what would you like to be called?' cue some blank faces so I elaborated 'Grandma and Grandad? Granny and Grandpa?......' My dad just looked a bit dumbfounded but my mum said 'what, already?' (it was 3 weeks before our wedding) and then squealed and started crying for the in-laws who live quite a way away DH told them that they might want to change their Christmas plans this year as they were going to want to come and visit their grandchild. First grandchild on both sides so they're all very excited

12weekscan just before mums birthday so bought her some wool and a knitting pattern for baby stuff, it took a couple of minutes to twig but the look on her face was priceless, everyone else got handed the scan picture or told by phone before putting on FB.

With my first I wanted to be pregnant before we married as we were going to live in Sierra Leone and I wanted to stock up on things I might need (1969). It was the days of the 'rabbit test' at the GP and I had a false negative first. The doc gave me some pills to bring on my period...
The second test was positive my husband to be tried to tell my parents as he thought they'd be shocked. After ages of beating round the bush my dad lost patience and shouted,"You've got her up the duff lad! Get the bloody sherry out!"

Me and boyfriend had long discussions about when to try for our second, I wanted to start sooner in case it took a while (first one took about 5 months), he wanted to wait another year for a longer age gap.

I got my way (as always :) ) and he said no worries, get your coil out whenever then and let's do it, and rolled his eyes and said he bet me £50 I would get pregnant IMMEDIATELY. And I was like, I won't! I'm older now! I bet it will take longer!

So I got my coil out without telling him (though obviously he'd said it was fine) and got my BFP 3 weeks later and gave him £50 one night when he came home from work and he took a minute to work it out then laughed and laughed and hugged me.

In terms of other people I'm not that big on big announcements, I generally tell people I'm close to in person around 9 weeks or so, though I have mentioned it on facebook etc after about 15 weeks. Work I told after 20 weeks...

For my side of the family the 12 week scan coincided with my Nanas birthday (& it was a great way of telling everyone together) so we wrote that she was going to be a great grandmother in her card & made her read it out to everyone. It was great.
For my In laws there is already a grandchild who already has cousins but we got her a little T-shirt that said 'my mum is going to be an Auntie' which worked well.
We just told everyone else face to face & then my DH put a scan on FB to cover people overseas we couldn't tell/people we forgot to tell!

We announced like this... and everyone loved it!!

"You've got her up the duff lad! Get the bloody sherry out!"

That is brilliant.

kylieclyde that reminds me of . Such a fun way of announcing.

I think every baby deserves to be celebrated - it's a new life and that deserves an elaborate announcement in my eyes! If we can't celebrate that without someone being offended then we really have no hope!
I lost a baby and found out a few weeks later that someone very close to me was expecting - of course it bought back my emotions of how I felt, but I would not have expected them to tone down their celebrations or happiness for my sake - they weren't rubbing it in, they had every right to be that excited!

I think the sign announcements are really good and I recently saw a really cute video on YouTube of a couple with the diet coke cans (with names on them) if anyone has seen that! I thought it was brilliant!

Good luck in your announcement OP - however you decide to do it I'm sure it will be fab!

This is how we announced at 19 weeks!

I did tell facebook mates via this picture at around 17 weeks - DD kissing her new sibling...

Photography is my thing, so it was natural for me to do a photographic announcement with my 5th baby. He was unplanned, very very unexpected. I told my mum by showing her the early scan photo (no af, so had to have a dating scan as had no idea how far gone I was). Then after 12 week scan text all family to tell them. Then did a photo of all our shoes on the wall plus a little pair of booties, and a caption saying "Our family is growing by two feet".

When we had our gender scan I made cupcakes and iced one half pink and half blue, then posted a photo saying "Pink or blue? Coming soon....", then after a photo of the cupcake with a bite out of the blue side with "It's a boy!"

With my first I tried to wait but after 4 mc and told I'd never have children I just blurted it out. Second baby was after marriage broke down and I was seeing someone new... Found out after being together 6 months and fell on the coil. It wasn't a happy time. Oh announced it via fb and just put scan on and said suppose everyone will find out... Cue pre natal depression! Anyway baby 2 is now 10 months, oh moved in things are great.... I found out baby number 3 is baking! We announced to parents pretty quick about 6 weeks. My mum said "your off your head" but was happy, as was OH side! We announced to everyone else via fb with a picture of my daughters holding a sign saying "we are going to be big sisters!! But we don't know yet, because we can't read!!" Both o them grinning away :) was lovely and got amazing reactions haha

I phoned my mum and sisters (they live abroad) and said "I'm pregnant" when I found out at 4 weeks. When we found out it was twins at 13 weeks, I phoned them and said "it's twins" then burst into tears.

Told everyone else via Facebook with a scan photo when I was 20 weeks.