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?

Something else I've faild at in my life

I told dh then phoned my mum and dh then phone his

Ha I practically shouted it at DH as soon as he walked through the door, poor bloke.

My poor DP drew the short straw. He stood outside the bathroom door and waited while I did what needed to be done, and I "announced" it to him by whimpering "What does a cross mean?".

For context, I was young, terrified, didn't want to be pregnant and he was stood outside holding the pregnancy test box. It didn't click in my head that the "cross" was a plus sign, meaning "positive"

When we put it on Facebook, we went to a tree we'd carved our initials into a couple of years before, and added "+ BUMP" underneath awaits flaming for desecrating trees and put a picture on Facebook :)

The rest of your friends, family and colleagues will feign a polite interest but basically women have babies all the time .

My friends did a good job of pretending then they were more excited than I was

We found out just before Christmas, I gave my mum and sisters a Christmas card on Christmas Eve signed ' Love x, x and bump'
My mum went loopy it was amazing
I called the rest of my close family.

Our 12 week scan was on Valentine's Day so we put a post up saying something like this is what we got each other this year, delivery not due until August to 'publicly announce it'

Not to everybody's taste I guess but we wanted to announce it!

Congratulations

I wouldn't put anything up on social media unless you would also want everyone to know if something sadly went wrong.. I know of two people who have had second trimester miscarriages recently.. One of whom's husband had posted the 12 week scan on Facebook That was one of many reasons I didn't announce my pregnancy on social media; I don't have a huge number of friends on Facebook but more than I would care to share something that private with.

I saw a nice announcement of 3 sets of converse trainers in dad, mum and baby size and under each a little black board and on each said born in ....then their year of birth, the baby's blackboard said'arriving in' ..... 😀

Silver That's why I waited until after the 20 week scan before putting anything on FB. Wanted to reach the halfway point and know that no anomalies had been found before announcing it to everyone on FB. Of course there was/is still a chance something can go wrong after that point but I figure the later you leave it the higher the chances of all being well

I told my mum and close family over the phone as I couldn't wait!
When we found out the sex I had cupcakes made with pink & blue icing on top, with blue fondant in the middle for family.
I just put a scan pic up on FB to announce to everybody else! Congrats 💗👶🏼💙

No announcements here. You ain't got a baby, till you got a baby! Announcement only once baby is born and has survived a couple of weeks and has a name. Before that no, too painful to un-announce.

Ive now had seven pregnancies and have two healthy beautiful boys.

Some of my misscarriages have been over 12 weeks. My own experience dicatates that sharing the news before a 20 week scan would mean unsharing were the worst to happen. Or having questions about the pregnancy.

I hope this never happens to you

There are people on my facebook ive accepted so as not to seem rude rather than a burning desire for them to have access to my personal life especially if things dont go to plan.

For this reason I would not dream pf posting online and would tell those closest to me who i would want to know if things dont work out so they can support us.

I'm so sorry for your losses Somerset and so glad you have two beautiful boys now. This is my biggest fear which is why we are only telling parents over Christmas (as won't be able to get away with it!) and leaving it to tell everyone else after 20 weeks.

I phoned parents and sister to tell them at 13 weeks and text close friends at the same time. Then just mentioned it to people when we saw them. After a lot of years of trying, 4 losses and 2 failed IVF treatments I was very very wary of making a big deal about this pregnancy in case it ended in a loss too. I couldn't stomach the idea of having to "announce" a loss, if I'd announced the pregnancy IYSWIM.

Announced the birth on FB though - by that stage I could actually believe I had a baby!

I wouldn't and will not announce on FB. Having gone through 3 years of infertility and IVF it's such a kick in the cunt when you turn on FB to see another pregnancy announcement/baby bomb. If you only have "real" friends on FB tell them in individual private messages/texts rather than a catch-all.

Also, I personally think that any big life event shouldn't be "announced" on Facebook. FB has created a whole world of people who curate their lives for public consumption - as if they're the celebrity stars of their own reality show rather than just a human stumbling through life. Keep it real OP.

Gave the grandparents and great grandparents-to-be a card with the scan photo in it.

Phoned/texted everyone else important to tell them.

And that was it. I never did make an announcement of any sort on social media. Eventually, a baby just started appearing in photos.

Ouch! Despite a lot of, 'the world doesn't care' comments and since we did care and totally LOVE surprises - this is how we did ours to the Grandparents.

Child 1 - Grandparent [who had two granddaughters and a grandson]. We sent a bouquet of flowers to her work place with the following poem. She loved it…!

“We bought these flowers especially for you,
A Grandmother’s pose - yellow, pink and blue,
Each flower represents the apple of your eye,
Two sweet girls and one cool guy;
Now here’s a secret that can finally be told,
In March they’ll be a new baby to hold”….

Child 2 – Grandparents [We were living overseas at the time and remembered they’re Saturday morning routine, was for FIL to take coffee into MIL, as she lay in bed reading all the local announcements in their Saturday newspaper – SOOOOO, we placed an ad! Keeping in mind it’s a country town with 10 siblings; so we knew they’d find out quick!

“Grandparents Names – SURPRISE! We’re excited to announce that ‘Grandparents Names’ will be Grandparents again! Love from Our Names and country we were working in’…

For everyone else, we announced in everyday conversation when we were good and ready. And for the people that ‘don’t care’ – neither did I. Simple.

You're being a little bit precious OP, sorry. Just announce it whatever way you like.