How did you announce your pregnancy?

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Apparently I'm not the only one in my Facebook/extended family/life to recently find out they're pregnant! All the announcements have been very sweet but I'm lost at what to do now. I was see myself as creative but I've hit a block! A generic status will not cut it with me! (The important people are being told face to face on Christmas Day/s)

How did you announce your pregnancy to the world?

Mouldycheese- I know, & you're right. the doctor said I either need two weeks off to sort myself out (I couldn't think of a better way of putting it, my words not her) or She suggests I go back onto medication, which I refuse as there's no point in taking any risks. I did mention to the midwife I was really concerned as it's not a constant thing, it's triggered, not by anything in particular but my anxiety is constant. But I can deal with that in the respect that I'm used to it.
Excuse my ignorance but I never even bought about wills, we own a house together & I don't think either of us have wills despite him having a dangerous job. I never even thought about it.

Join- I don't use Pinterest so I never thought of it but that's a brilliant idea, thank you.

Purple- thank you & looking back at it yes I can but I can be oblivious sometimes to how I say things, I rarely come across as I mean to. I didn't want to out do them, I more wanted to not look like I'm stealing their sunshine by copying them.
The two I were aware of as we were in it together have conceived this year. There may be others that I don't know about though and I never thought about that. I think excitement gets the better of me.

I shouldn't of used the word announce. I didn't mean it in the way you've all taken it, I apologise.

1st pregancy was pre-Facebook, but the gossip-mill took care of most of it for me after I told close family and friends (for long and boring reasons).

For the second I told close family and friends face to face, and then promptly forgot about it until I went on a business trip at 6 months, and posted a lovely picture that a colleague had taken of me with the city in the background - totally forgetting that most of the people on my Facebook wouldn't have known (as we were living abroad at the time). It caused a bit of a fuss that we hadn't "announced" it before then.

Incidentally DH never said anything about DD2 - all the people he would want to know he either sees regularly or are on my Facebook. When he posted a picture of her with DD1 at about a year old he got a whole load of "where did the other child come from?!" messages from old school friends!

Oh don't worry at all whycan-sometimes things look totally different written down without any visual or verbal cues. I've done exactly the same thing on here before.

Cats- thats awful! But I can say my DP doesn't ever read cards either so I know this is a thing! I plan to give them face to face so they don't have a choice but to read it. The other members of my family I'm not really close enough to send cards to as I never have done before.

Shots fired- I came across in completely the wrong way to which I meant to, I didn't mean make it big thing I meant just a simple picture

Congratulations on your pregnancy How many weeks are you now?

I know this wasn't your original question but I think it's really important that you get proper support for your anxiety and depression. Have you considered CBT or some kind of counselling? If your midwife/GP haven't offered, I suggest you ask them. They should also be able to refer you to the perinatal mental health team for support from a specialist midwife. And if your symptoms aren't severe, please don't discount medication - there are options that are proven to be safe in pregnancy and actually your mental health is a high priority (it's more risky for you and the baby to have an untreated mental health problem than it is for you to take anti depressants that are approved for pregnancy).

And now my lecture is over... Personally I think it's nice to tell close family and friends face to face if possible, if not over the phone, and failing that in a personal email or message.
I waited until my 20 week scan before announcing my pregnancy on Facebook. I thought about doing something "creative" but in the end decided it would be a bit cheesy. So I got DH to take a photo of me with my bump and shared it along with a post saying I'm pregnant.

I'm not a fan of scan photos on FB, personally, but each to their own. It wouldn't stop me clicking "Like" and congratulating a friend.

Typo! Should have said:

And if your symptoms are severe, please don't discount medication

Vv- my old manager is a lot like that too! When he was my manager he had one child, then children kept popping up in days out until he had 4! He's not a big talker or facebook-er so it was always abit of a shock, not just to me but family as well by the look of the comments haha!

Name change- it wasn't my regular doctor & she was really faffing in the respect I went due to severe pains in my left side (maybe due to scar tissue, maybe due to baby, I didn't know and was worrying) & due to me being incredibly upset because of missing my appointment by 5 minutes due to bus being late & because of the pain I was in pieces. I managed to get an emergency appointment but at that point I was a state (I've been on a 'drop' for a few weeks now so I knew it was coming) when I got in there all she wanted to talk about was my mental health & refused to talk about my pains which upset me more. So I didn't really speak to her properly, she did give me a leaflet for counselling which I will ring up as i am struggling. I spoke to the midwife about my pain and I had an emergency scan, baby is okay, they think it's the scar tissue. Midwife is aware of it but said no to antidepressants too, as I'm very up and down It's hard to gage me I think, one day I can be incredibly happy & the next a mess. I'm overall a happy person, well smiley, so that throws people I think. My dp works away so i struggle with the lack of at home support, MN has helped me massively in the respect of it's a huge distraction as other wise I would be sat here blankly.

There were a lot of 'dues' & 'inrespects' in that post, sorry namechange!
Note to self- proof read.

OP I called my parents and the In Laws at 4weeks to tell them as soon as we found out. Brothers and girlfriends via a call at 8 weeks along with a number of friends, we were due to be going to lots of weddings and at 8 weeks I was showing heavily already, we made a WhatsApp group with them all and sent a picture from our 8 week scan.

Then we posted on FB - like you we have friends and family up and down the country and spread across the world, I knitted a pair of baby booties myself and posted them along with the 12 week scan photo

I totally get where you're coming from! It's nice to make it a little creative - have fun!

Whycan I did give them face to face! DD thought her card was from the cats and parents and mil assumed it was another card from DD! Should've just told them over the phone! Could you make an advent calendar and take a photo of each door being opened to reveal the news?

Cats- oh god that's even worse!!

Cats- The advent calendar is a lovely idea

Raspberry that's very similar to our idea! It's lovely I'm currently 8 weeks so I'm 12 weeks Christmas Day exactly, I think I'm getting overly excited because of that, I plan to tell my inlaws Christmas Eve when we go up to them & Christmas Day to tell my dad & sister. My mum & her partner already know just incase anything went wrong. I was tempted to tell everyone else in the close family but I'm not sure how they would react as it's so early. I had a scan this weekend due to pain & we're getting a private scan done at 11 weeks to be on the safe side.

I'm on my second pregnancy and also doing not really like scan pictures on FB, they're very special for you but tbh for everyone else they look the same and aren't really that exciting. It's also nice to keep some things to yourself I think. A friend of mine posted everything about her pregnancy including all the 4-D scans etc she got and it was a bit much. I announced #1 on FB when I was around 15 weeks. Nothing creative, just a 'great news, I'm pregnant' kind of post. This one I waited until after 20 wk scan and put a picture up of DS1 in a wee too that said 'I'm going to be a big brother'. Some of the more creative ones can be a bit IMO. A friends recently posted a picture of her son with two dolls and I saw it and thought nothing much then transpired she was trying to say she was expecting twins. Sometimes it's best to keep it simple!

I cried like a baby and handed my parents a Granny and Grandad card with a copy of scan in it.

Told close friends via text or messenger so all knew at once, meeting up with them over the next few weeks

Partner was there at preg test stage!

Im torn between putting anything on facebook or not. The important people know now so not too bothered really :)

We told all the important people face to face then did a Facebook announcement with a scan pic because dp wanted to do one, I wasn't arsed. To be honest it did save having the same conversation over and over, I'm probably glad we did now.

I didn't 'announce' it to anyone - just told people without fanfare.

I just told my family and close friends. Friends on Facebook won't really care tbh. Sorry.

Have to say I hate all these "how to tell your partner you're pregnant" on Pinterest - I just peed on a stick and told him! By #3 I just waved it under his nose and went "told you!"

Family and close friends I just told when I saw them next and put my scan on FB for everyone else.

Just put it on MN along with all your details and some other scurrilous info (maybe about your sex life? Can be faked) and the Daily Mail will share your news tomorrow.

Personally, I chose not to announce on social media and told those individually that I wanted to know.

Rollon I sent DH a whatsapp message with a pic of the pregnancy test just entitled FUCK.........!

OP I personally love seeing pregnancy announcements on FB but find the really contrived ones a bit sickening, just a scan photo and an "introducing baby whycan" or "coming soon, baby whycan" is usually enough!

I really dislike scan photos-while booties/advent calendars whatever are twee, scan photos are really hard to deal with for many women with fertility issues.

To be fair though, any kind of pregnancy announcement must be difficult to see if you have fertility issues.