When did you announce your pregnancy on social media?

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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!

Never!

I didn't.

I didn't with the older ones. With the younger ones, probably as soon as we'd told family, which was probably before the test was even dry.

We're going to be in Paris in 2 weeks when I'll be nearly 15 weeks and I plan to announce it there with a picture of me and bump under the Eiffel Tower 'Eiffel Pregnant again'

I say again because I had a miscarriage at the start of the year and I actually announced that on SM because I felt really strongly about it and the support and people who reached out to me privately was overwhelming!

So it will be lovely for the same people to share our good news. Plus I'm already showing so it would be obvious in our holiday photos - why not share it!

All immediate family and friends have/will have been told before then in person.

It was after viability/24 weeks but not sure exactly. No bump or scan photo though. We had ivf and I'm mindful of how painful announcements can be. But I had finally got excited after a terrifying start to pregnancy, and we'd gone back into lockdown so did eventually share.

Personally haven't and won't. It took me a long time to get pregnant and I used to find it incredibly hard seeing announcements xx

For those of you saying you wouldn't because you don't want to upset people etc. I respect that and that's very kind of you!

But out if curiosity. Would you not post on Mother's Day / fathers Day etc for the same reasons??? Incase somebody had lost a parent etc? I just thought social media was a place for people to share happy news.

There are many different topics that might be triggering for different people.

I don’t post for those either. I wish my parents a happy day and tell them how much they mean to me to their faces, I don’t know why I need to gush on social media, especially as neither of them are on there.

No I don't post about mothers / fathers day either x

No, I wish them happy mothers/Father’s Day in person.

I think social media messages on the whole are naff though. They’re written for everyone else’s benefit, not the recipient.

I'm 18 weeks and won't be announcing on social media. I don't post on facebook very often, just use it keep in touch with old friends and family that live far away. It doesn't bother me if other people do, I'm nosey like that, but personally wouldn't post anything that personal about myself. Maybe we will post when they are safely here but until then a definite no.

I didn't. DH did announce their births though (I got bored of answering all the "have you had the baby yet?" texts from friends and relatives, so he let them all know in one fell swoop).

Never directly, but there were some pictures that I was visiblely pregnant in, so that probably had the same effect. Probably around 6 months?