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[MarmiteandToast]

If you are on Facebook, have you done any sort of pregnancy announcement? Most of my friends have but I'd not really thought of it. We've kept it a secret due to a real scare at twelve week scan but touch wood all is looking good now and doctors have said to now try to relax and enjoy rest of pregnancy.

DH suggested I put something on Facebook now that work know, so that everyone else knows and it doesn't feel so secret, as I'm still not used to talking about it!

Has anyone else?

I'm 17 weeks and I haven't, although a friend has tagged me in a couple of memes etc. Not my thing but I don't mind - everyone we wanted to tell ourselves already knows.

Have a bit of an awkward one - am in a private group and am one of the last ones to have a DC. Haven't said anything on there yet as there have been a few women having a rough time with pregnancy and TTC lately. I'll have to post something at some stage though. Keep hoping someone else will announce and I can just tag on!

I'm on FB and for my first pregnancy, I didn't do any sort of pregnancy announcement- I attended a wedding at around 30 weeks pregnant and from the photos that were put up by others, friends saw and this generated comments/congratulations.

All our close friends and family knew after we had a reassuringly normal anomaly scan- I personally did not feel the need to make any announcement on FB. Once baby arrived, we put a photo up after a few days and that was it.

Second pregnancy- again, had no plans to announce it on FB and in any case, I had a missed miscarriage which was found at the dating scan so that was that.

Do whatever feels right for you and your partner.

I personally find scan photos a bit too much, oversharing & also wondering whether announcing at 12 weeks is really the right thing considering all that can go wrong (I felt this way before the MMC) and now pregnancy announcements always give me a shudder (we are around 16 months TTC post-miscarriage) but that's just due to my personal circumstances, they never bothered me before.

First time I put nothing on FB until first child was born.
Now 30 weeks and I will do the same this time. I've also changed my settings so that no one can post on my wall just in case some idiot decides to announce it for me.

I didn't mention my last pregnancy directly on facebook. There were the odd comments from friends on some of my status that alluded to it so it wasn't exactly a secret but other than that I didn't mention it until he had safely arrived.

I popped a balloon with the colour pink represent girl in and boomerang filmed it and put it on Facebook. Everyone was shocked to say the least

I was 16+3

I guess it depends on how you use FB? Some people have friends and family all over the place so that's a really nice way to make sure no one is in the dark! I only have close friends and family and random people I went to school with / worked with years ago so there really is no point in me doing one!

Having said that i've seen some really cute ones though (That guy from Mcfly) so maybe it's just a nice thing to do as a couple and a nice pregnancy memory!