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When did you announce your pregnancy on social media?

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123jez · 03/08/2023 13:48

Hey all 😊

When did you all announce your pregnancies on social media? And what was your reason for doing so at that time?

Thanks so much!

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izzy2076 · 03/08/2023 14:35

I didn't. IVF pregnancy and knowing that seeing pregnancy announcements on fb can be hard for those ttc. But also massively nervous and didn't tell my parents until I was 23weeks.

Emmamoo89 · 03/08/2023 14:35

Post my son on SM and don't mind if friends and family post pics of him

ClinkyWotsit · 03/08/2023 14:37

I still haven’t. DD is 3.

BigBeeee · 03/08/2023 14:43

I didn't announce it anywhere.

Strokethefurrywall · 03/08/2023 14:43

I had my kids 12 and 9 years ago and live overseas. Didn't announce pregnancy for first one (that I can remember), but did for second of the second on my birthday.

Posted safe delivery birth announcement a couple hours after DS1 was born, followed by pics, and about half an hour after DS2 was born! Both easy deliveries and I was beyond excited. Accounts are set to private.

I don't really use social media much anymore these days, I posted the odd photo of us together on our Easter vacation but never post anything without their permission.

Allthingspeaches · 03/08/2023 14:45

First at 6 months. Second never.

NewDogOwner · 03/08/2023 14:45

I didn't and don't really understand it. Posting pictures of your insides ( scans) to people you don't see anymore but used to go to school with, doesn't seem appropriate to me but I know I am in the minority.

PurBal · 03/08/2023 14:48

Theres a single photo of me with DC1, from a distance posted when he was 6 months old and there’s a photo of me pregnant with DC2 Neither were announcements though.

Ap24 · 03/08/2023 14:55

I won't be. I'm not really on SM and all those staged photos make me cringe. The people we want to know will be told in person or over the phone but that won't be until after we get our NIPT results.

dontknowwhatswrong · 03/08/2023 14:56

I didn't and I didn't post the birth announcement I seen my long distance cousin and she was asking who's baby I was looking after I said my own and she was shocked that she didn't read it on social media

Emmamoo89 · 03/08/2023 14:58

PurpleChrayne · 03/08/2023 14:34

Never.

So vulgar and attention-seeking.

Hardly 🙄

applesandmares · 03/08/2023 15:02

I was about 22 weeks I think! We didn't tell anyone other than immediate family & my manager until then as we suffered a loss with our first pregnancy and I was too anxious about announcing and then having to explain if something went wrong. I wanted to have the anomaly scan to make sure she was all good!

tb4122 · 03/08/2023 15:04

2 weeks after he was born Grin.

It was my first pregnancy and it all felt a bit surreal and like it wasn't really happening to me, although it was planned and much wanted.

Tisfortired · 03/08/2023 15:07

I was about 20 weeks when I posted some holiday pictures where you could perhaps MAYBE see a bump. Then when I was around 30 weeks posted a picture of myself, DP and DS out to dinner where it was unmistakeable but it wasn’t a ‘hey everyone I’m pregnant!’ post just a family picture.

Badbudgeter · 03/08/2023 15:07

I didn’t everyone who I see regularly knew and then it’s just old uni friends/ former work colleagues/ people you met whilst backpacking years ago.

I did put a picture of DS up when he was born.

LaVitesse2022 · 03/08/2023 19:33

I posted a holiday pic where I was visibly pregnant at 20 weeks. I'm happy when people I used to be friends with share their good news on SM so I figured I'd do the same :) It's a very personal decision though OP, no right or wrong. In fact you can see from this thread that the people who don't like sharing tend to be the ones most judgemental when others do it.

Bumblebee112 · 03/08/2023 19:44

About a week or so after he was born. One newborn picture with a very brief caption that he had arrived safely. No photos of him on SM since. My SM is very restricted just to family and friends.

I found out I was pregnant not long before the first lockdown. Immediate friends and family found out I was pregnant at about 25 weeks when we came out of lockdown. They were all very shocked 🤣🤣
Wider circle of friends and cousins etc that live abroad found out at SM birth announcement and were even more shocked 🤣

Personally, I wouldn’t announce a pregnancy. I was only ok about “announcing” after DS was delivered safely.

Blue2020 · 03/08/2023 19:48

I didn’t. Slowly working my way off SM. My dh doesn’t want ds on there when ds doesn’t get to choose for himself, which is fair enough.

ToughFuss · 03/08/2023 19:48

14/15 weeks I think. We’d been ttc for so long, it felt amazing to finally be able to do so!

Hopelesslyn · 03/08/2023 19:49

I only put up once I had my child so no pregnancy announcement. I don’t post pictures of my children on social media though so not sure if this is the norm

tulipsunday · 03/08/2023 19:54

20wks with first and will probably do 20wks again with my second. Won't do a big photo of the scan pic or anything but just something along the lines of.. child x is going to be big brother. Baby girl/boy due ...

KingOfThieves · 03/08/2023 19:58

2 days after birth

PickledScrump · 03/08/2023 20:09

1st- 10 weeks, after a scan. Naive and excited
2nd- after 12 week scan
3rd- after 20 week scan and our only gender reveal (small one just with the kids)

Rugbyballhead · 03/08/2023 20:10

I didn't. I posted a picture once baby was in my arms! I lost two pregnancies and didn't want to post about the third just in case that wasn't successful either.

Olika · 03/08/2023 20:26

I didn't. I told the most important people personally and only posted a pic of the baby after birth when I knew both her and I were fine.

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