Isolation Reveals

[Wingingit07]

Anyone else revealed their pregnant whilst in isolation? How did you do it? Isolation has made me lose my creativity! X

We just called my parents and DH's mum and told them. The news is lovely enough without a gimmicky "reveal".

Use your words!
Or wait until your baby is here. I don't think people are that bothered tbh.

Wow personally definitely wouldn't wait until baby is here. Its been a long time coming to get pregnant so would like to do something memorable

It's already memorable! Don't fall for this Americanised guff that it has to be some big shebang. It's beautiful news that your relatives will never forget.

Hey OP, congrats!

Our 12 week scan is tomorrow and all being well, telling the parents etc this week. DH isn't fussy about any big deal for tell his, so it'll just be a conversation. For mine though, I'm going to get a little baby gro or little booties and put them in a gift box and watch them open from the garden.

Nothing OTT, but something memorable really - we are only planning on doing this once and my parents will be ecstatic! It's a long awaited pregnancy so I want it be more than a chat for us as well.

I wouldn't wait until the baby is here...and I don't want to wait until much beyond the 12 week mark to at least tell family - I think good news will go far just now with the situation and I know we'll have people sharing our excitement too.

In the same breath though, there won't be a Facebook announcement or a gender reveal!

When do you plan to tell them?
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I agree with @Mucklowe. Just tell them, no need for a gimmicky “reveal”. It’s the telling them you’re pregnant which is the memorable news for them, not how you do it.

@wannabebump that's a lovely idea, I like the idea of something they can keep. I have my 12 week scan on Thursday, so will most likely tell them Friday dependent on how the scan goes, we had a scan at 9 weeks and all seemed fine. When will you tell your parents? :-) We aren't Facebook or big reveal people either so it's not going on there.

Thanks to others for their comments regarding to tell them in a conversation, I'd personally rather do or give something so any helpful advice with what I'm looking for would be useful :-)

We are just telling those closest to us.
But I have 2 Whatsapp groups for extended family, so have written a quiz (because we have loads flying about in both groups!)
The answers will be:

1. Have I got news for you
2. We are

3 Havana

1. Baby
2. Surprise

xxx

Ah op people are being harsh! Maybe send a card with a poem?

Aww that’s cute @BeMorePacific

@Wingingit07 my scan is tomorrow so hopefully Thursday/Friday, all being well! Still at the anxious/nervous stage about the scan and not letting myself get too carried away!

I think it's important to make it memorable - I chat to my parents and DH's parents about work, the weather, whats on the tv...I feel this deserves a bit more!

It's each to their own, and do what you want to make it special for you x

@BeMorePacific love this quiz idea!

Just tell people.

Any kind of gimmick is shit. It's memorable telling them.

@Hercwasonaroll harsh words

Holy jeebus, some people are grumpy this morning!

I'm not a 'reveal' person at all, but BeMorePacific's idea is genius. Love it.

Maybe get them the a scan picture and put it in a card and post it through their door. Then do a face time call while they open the card?

DP drove down to his mum with a scan picture when he went to tell his mum. She still has the picture, all framed in her living room lol.

Congratulations, hope you have a happy healthy pregnancy.

We're not very good at memorable reveals and celebrations so we just messaged our 12 week scan to people saying 'There will be a new member of the family soon'.

My friend and her partner are really into boardgames so they made a cute photo setup of 2 big game meeple and a little one and message 'Rolling a new character for our best campaign yet!'. Very niche but totally suited them.

Prior to the lockdown (just) but I told my sisters by sending a photo of the scan picture with no comment. Actually thinking about it, that was also how my sister told me she was expecting my niece.

@wannabebump wow how exciting! It feels like such a long time to wait for the first scan but in the grand scheme 12 weeks is so small ha ha :-) congrats too!

@NeuroMama that's so cool and personal!

Thanks guys! Love all these ideas and the poem is really nice and so creative with the quiz! :) gives me something to think about and also its nice to think about how to say and do it as it takes my mind off the current situation for 5 mins! :)
Thanks for the ideas brain juice is flowing a bit more!

I also say again, I'm looking for little reveal ideas, personally I do not want to tell them in conversation. So if you comment saying just tell them and calling my own feelings/ideas gimmicky and rubbish then I'm not sure what value your adding to the thread other then being unhelpful and unkind.

This was before lockdown but we gave both sets of parents a congratulations card and wrote inside: “only the best parents get promoted to grandparents. baby X due August 2020.” They all loved it and were overjoyed. Simple but not as boring as just saying oh btw I’m pregnant.

Aww congratulations!! Haha I love making a big deal out of everything so am on this thread for ideas!! Such a cute idea @bemorepacific.
Could you buy something from Etsy like a mug mum or dad or grandma etc. That way it's something they (or you) can keep. You could either show them on zoom etc or drop it at their door if you live close and it's on your exercise route :)

Do they have skype/zoom/whats app? Can you email them a picture of the scan and record them opening the email, while you are on skype obviously.

God some people are grumpy this morning!

OP, I ended up just telling mine over the phone (because they live too far away for us to even pop round to the garden) but before CV I always thought I would buy Cath Kidson mugs with ‘gran’ and ‘grandpa’ painted on and give them to them to open. I always thought that would be a sweet way to do it.

Could you have a 20 foot banner made that says "I'm pregnant" buy 2 doves (pigeons could also work) and tie the banner around their feet. Gather everyone in the garden (maintaining 2 metres at all times) and then open the box with your doves/pigeons in and encourage them to fly in a circular motion to reveal your news? They can keep the banner as a lasting momento. I feel emotional just thinking about it.

Just an idea, you could always just video call them and say "hi, guess what...?"

You can get scratch cards I believe that you could post to them which reveal it?

We were lucky that we had an early scan just before lockdown so got to tell families in person. I got my mum a mothers day card (luckily gave it to her 2 weeks early!) with a scan pic in, and my dad a birthday card with another scan pic in (due around his birthday). I probably would have done the same but posted to them with a note to ring me before opening (they don't do facetime!).