Your pregnancy announcement stories please

[Nombie]

We are just over 12 weeks (hurray!) and are having our first scan on Thursday. We've yet to tell anyone apart from some work colleagues out of necessity and my sister as I needed someone to talk to who understood my plight.

We can't go see our family due to Covid so I've been thinking of ideas to spice it up so it's fun but also we tell people. A little more interesting than just calling people and being like 'we did a thing'.

The original plan was to have a family gathering for partners 30th birthday (May) and tell everyone all together, rip the bandaid off but can't do that anymore.

I did also think about just waiting for lockdown to be over but it could be June/July by which time we'll be 5 months gone and I think that's a little rude to not tell them before then since we're a very close family and we want to involve them and it'll give our mothers something nice to think about and plan for after lockdown.

So how did you tell your family & friends, has anyone done it whilst in lockdown and if so how! I need ideas!

Thanks in advance.

Looking forward to seeing the posts, myself and my partner are having the same thoughts!
We've had a private scan (8 weeks) and due to have 12 week scan on 13th May and despite only being 11+1 potentially (original maths and private scan maths differed!) we want to tell family then, hoping everything is ok at Scan.

We're hoping to tell my family sort of 'face to face' but standing in the garden and telling them through the window - but we will have to phone partners family, but unsure how to tell them, don't just want to blurt out 'we're pregnant!'

Any ideas very welcome - it's our parents first Grandchild so want to make it as special as possible!

@Rara88Cas I am going to be telling my family at the end of the garden path, i've made a little sign. This is out first pregnancy after our loss in December and i want this to be special, not just something i tell people over the phone.
I am wary of visiting people but i am going to ensure we stay far away from others and luckily everyone lives close by apart from grandparents (great grandparents to the baby).
We are going to be sending postcards to grandparents with the scan picture :)

Same predicament here. Mine and husbands first baby, first grandchild to both sets of parents, and I would be so gutted to have to tell them over video call or something :( I want them to able to hug us and celebrate properly. I am 10 weeks now so waiting until the 12 week scan anyway but I doubt restrictions will be lifted by then :( don’t know what to do!

I went to visit my mum and dad and gave them a box and told them we had a present for them. Inside was a tiny pair of baby shoes .. we video it and their faces went from excitement at a present .. to confusion to utter joy and then they both burst into tears .

Could you send something to family in the post like a clue but ask them all to video call you when it arrives ?

Not my story but I read a lovely one in the birth announcements topic about someone who stood at the end of the drive so their parents could see through the window and did the announcement love actually style with the message written out over a series of boards. I thought that was cute, plus you might get a round of applause from their neighbours too!

I love the “love actually” idea, and the leaving a box and stepping away idea too. Two of my friends did something similar, along with a copy of the scan left on the doorstep in an envelope.

I told my mum on the phone when lockdown began because I was high risk and thought she better know Incase I ended up in hospital. My dad (who we held off telling because he’s an excitable child) was told by my mum, when he got discharged from ITCU with COVID.

I found out I was preg on mothers day.. which was too good an opportunity. My mum is currently shielded so can only see her when we take food and only from the end of the driveway. We put a picture of the pregnancy test in her mothers day card. It did kind of upset her though cos she couldnt hug us.

We haven't announced to most people yet and wont do for a few weeks yet.

This ideas all sound great - I was debating ordering the blackboard countdowns 'XX weeks until we become grandparents' and delivering them when we've had the scans, but think due to distance we may only be able to do that for my parents - plus I panic that buying something before the scan might 'jinx' things!

Just tell them over the phone. Anything else is cringey and attention-seeking. Yes, even if it's a first grandchild. Even if it's the next messiah. Just don't.

@Mucklowe just because you think it is cringey doesnt mean it is. People are allowed to be excited about the prospect of a new life and want to share that excitement with others.
If you can't be excited for other people why bother even clicking on this post.
You might want to take off that mardy cardy, it's getting a bit warm

@Mucklowe why did you decided to even comment with an attitude like that. Take all that boring negativity elsewhere and let the hormonal pregnant woman have fun slightly cringe announcements which make them and their families happy for a small moment in this awful lockdown covid time.

@Nombie - @mucklowe did it because MN is unfortunately full of people who think their way is the only way and like to be extremely stuck up about it.

Has any of your parents/grandparents got a birthday coming up? For #1 we got my mum a card that said "To a very special..." On the front and then said Nanny and had the scan picture on the inside. If it's someone's birthday you could do similar and host a zoom party for them to open all their cards. This time we haven't told anyone yet. I'm almost 15 weeks an over the phone just seems really pants and boring. We keep sending pics of my LB with hidden clues in the background and if it comes round to it we will reissue the card from the baby #1 with a "Facebook memories" banner across the front but swap out the scan picture and add other stuff into it so she gets it. I ended up with a couple miserable snobs like the above slate my idea but each to their own and your relationship with your family and how you choose to announce your happy news should be as unique as you like x

@FirstTimeBumps unfortunately MILs birthday was January and FIL is October so baby might be here but that would be a surprise for them!

I have been thinking about buying something baby related like a book with a post it note saying now you have the book just need to wait a little while for the listener and a photo of the sonogram or a onesie with something cute message about being spoilt by my grandma or something as I know she'll spoil the baby, she spoils our dog to no end. She's been ready for us to have a baby for many years 😆, we've been together since we where 15.

I'd ask them to face time is before opening the package so we can enjoy it together. Ive seen people do this on YouTube before making the post but wanted other ideas.

@Nombie We let His Mum & Dad know on Mother's Day even though we were only about 6 weeks, we knew they were going to isolate but they decided to start the week before Mother's Day 🤦🏻‍♀️ so we got a card off Etsy that says "What do you get the parents that have everything?"
It had a gold heart to scratch off underneath that said "A Grandchild".

It's her 6th grandchild but DP's first (and only) baby - she phoned us to ask if we were joking 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I liked the idea of the wine labels to stick over the bottles but there's no way she'd accept shopping with this bloody virus.

This was before lockdown but would totally work in the current situation. We got two cute cards with ‘congratulations’ at the front for both sets of parents. Inside we wrote ‘only the best parents get promoted to grandparents! baby X due August 2020’. We ended up telling them before we had a scan photo but definitely would have put a photo in also if i was further along. They all loved it and didn’t have a clue why we were giving them a card until they opened it, lots of screams of excitement. It was cute and special and idc if anyone thinks it’s cringe worthy and attention seeking