How did you announce your pregnancy?

[Samandmom]

I thought this would be fun to post. Did you announce your pregnancy in a special way?

With my first born I was about 3 months along. This was on Christmas day. We bought wallet size frames, inside the frames we wrote "Insert photo of new niece or nephew or grandson or grandaughter (depending on who was recieving it) and then we wrote Love and our names". We handed them out to everyone (one for each immediate family) and told everyone not to open them till everyone got one. Everyone was very suprised.

Then with my DD I also anouced at about 3 months along. We made the announcement at my DS's 2nd birthday. When it was cake time we brought out two cakes. One was for DS with a #2 candle on it and the other one was a small cake with a boy and girl baby on it and a #0 candle on it. So DH and I bring out the cakes and I could not stop smiling. Everyone started to sing Happy Birthday. My sister shouts out OMG your pregnant. (no one heard her over the singing) I am still smiling and not saying a word. Then my Aunt says is that what I think it is? Then SIL shouts out "YOUR HAVING TWINS" that caught everyone's attention. I then said NO! "We only put a boy and girl on the cake since we don't know what we are having"

Would love to hear of any other stories.

 

[honeywolf7]

With my daughter, we were at a Fourth of July cookout and my (now ex) husband whispered something in his father's ear and ended it with Grandpa and then something in my mom's ear and ended it with Grandma....I don't remember what he whispered. I still remember his dad was happy and my mom said she was happy if I was sure that's what I wanted....Um, it's a little late to change my mind now, mom but she's one to talk before thinking.
With my son, I think we just told them....don't think we announced it at all.

 

[AZKathy]

I was only fortunate enough to do this once. It was at Christmas, so I got a baby's stuffed animal and put the pregnancy test thingy in the hand of the stuffed animal and wrapped it up as another Christmas present for DH. He had no idea and opened it up Christmas Eve and that is how everyone found out. Unfortunately, I miscarried and never got to do it again.

Our kids are adopted and we yelled and screamed and hooped and hollered to everyone when we got a baby!

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

With my first, for the Grandma's, we wrapped up baby brag books and let them figure it out when they opened them. With my daughter, after a couple miscarriages, we didn't do anything special. We were just happy to finally get through with a healthy baby.

 

[MerryPoppins]

My mother and dad used to "babysit" our dog while I worked. They had decided that they would be called Mam-maw and Pap-paw when they had grandkids, so we laughingly called them that to their grand-dog.

I made 2 small photo albums for our mothers. One had Grandma cross-stitched on the cover and the other had Mam-maw. My mother thought it was to put pictures of the dog in. LOL! I had to keep saying, "Read what it says!" She finally caught on.

With the second we weren't creative. We just announced that I was pregnant again.

 

[minnieandmickey]

Well recently my nephew called me and said," Aunt Becky I am student of the week..... and I'm going to be a big brother.....this is the best week ever." And it was.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I was too excited when I saw the test was positive. I couldn't wait and called DH at work and told him. Then I called my mom. DH and I just about told everyone we both knew. How unromantic! But we were full of excitement!!!

 

[aprilgail2]

The only one I actually told was my mom at first....I called her from work after the Dr called me there to tell me...then I waited until I was about 20 weeks and the chances of miscarrying were down then I just told everyong else...I was afraid of miscarrying and then having to tell everyone that after I told them I was pregnant so I waited the 20 weeks....

 

[mtemm]

with my first I was so surprised (we weren't trying yet) I just called my dh into the bathroom. Make that, walked out of the bathroom into the family room, looked at him while shaking, and pointed to the bathroom. He thought he was going in to kill a bug. LOL! the positive test was sitting on the counter. Took him a minute to get it, and me about 2 hours to stop shaking and be coherent.

We told our parents the following weekend, on fathers day. it was also right around my mom's birthday. We told my dh's family by just taking them to breakfast and telling them, his choice. For my parents I made a card for them on the computer. It was a Valentine Party Invitation. My son was due mid feb so even though it was June I thought it was cute. It had your basic invite stuff, you are invited to: a Valentine party. When: Mid feb, actual date TBA. Where: Brigham and Women's Hospital. In Honor of: Baby T.

Took my mom a minute to really get it and have it sink in, then all chaos broke loose. It was fun.

This time around the morning I tested I ran out and I got a big brother t-shirt for Daniel and put it on him. I got home and DH came downstairs (works in a home office) and it took it him 2 seconds to get it. Felt like i made up for last time.

We were visiting our families a week or so later and put the shirt on Daniel. None of them saw it until we pointed it out to them, and it took my dad a few minutes to get it even then.

More fun was telling them we are expecting twins! We were going for our amnio having no clue what was in store. My parents were visiting to take care of Daniel so we could go alone for it. There on the u/s at one day shy of 16 weeks were two babies. TWO BABIES.

Greg just called his family on the way home, since we wouldn't be seeing them. For my parents we stopped by the store and bought 2 congratulation baby cards. In one, I wrote congrats grandma, its a girl! On the other card I wrote congrats grandpa, its a boy! I handed each of my parents their respective cards and had them open them at the same time. Priceless. Dad got it right away, took my mom a couple of minutes. Definitely a memory I will hopefully always have.

Just wish I had any and all on video!!!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

I gave my husband a tiny baseball mitt and a baseball with baby M. written on it. It took him a while and he finally got it! It actually turned out to be a boy.

My father was in a nursing home after having suffered a stroke and when I gently told him he cried tears of joy. Sadly, he died 3 months after my son was born but I do believe my pregnancy gave him something to hang on to. He even got to come to the hospital to meet his new grandchild!

Lori

 

[TEENEE]

We didn't do anything exciting to announce either pregnancy. We do have family friends that did something fun when they were pregnant with their second child. They asked grandma and grandpa to babysit. They planned it so that baby #1 would be in his highchair with a bib on when grandma and grandpa arrived. Mom and Dad made sure they left quickly so the baby was still in the high chair. When grandma took him out of the chair and took his bib off he had a "I'm the big brother" shirt on. Needless to say the grandparents were thrilled and couldn't wait for the parents to get home to find out the details.

 

[snoopy]

My husband found out before I did that I was pregnant, both times. I made him deal with looking at the stick to see if it were a plus or a minus, I just couldn't deal with the suspense.

As far as telling other family members I didn't do anything clever. I know I waited with both of my kids until I was pretty far along to tell people - I didn't want to have to worry about giving out explanations if I were to miscarry.

I love these stories here though, very cool way to announce your upcoming bundle of joy!

 

[grinningghost]

For me, there wasn't much joy in announcing my pregnancy. My then-boyfriend (now DH) and I were thrilled, but we knew others wouldn't be, so it kind of leaked out slowly. How I wish it had been more like some of your stories, as it was the only baby we would ever have.

 

[lilallybean]

We loved telling our families about the pregnancies! The doctors had told me for 3 years that I would never be able to have babies of my own. WRONG!

1st Preg: We found out right around Mother's day and took gifts to each of our Mother's. Inside each gift was a set of baby bibs that said "I love Grandma" and "I love Grandpa". It was the best gift they got that year!

2nd Preg: We go the news around the beginning of December. We thought about waiting until Christmas but my Mom had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and we used the news to cheer her right away. We got two big boxes and put balloons in them. In the one for in-laws were 3 balloons: 1 blue with DS name and birthday, 1 blue with our nephew's name and birthday and then a yellow one with a big ? and the due date. My parnets had 1 with DS again and a pink one with my Niece's name and birthday, then again the yellow one. We took them their wrapped gifts and said you need these to help make your Season brighter! They thought it was Christmas decorations.

3rd Preg: Sadly my mom had passed away so we just called and told my Dad. We found out Jan 4th of that year, we took a Best Wishes for the New Year card to my Mother in law that two DS had signed and added a big ? with the due date. We also had a necklace that had baby booties with all the current grandkids birthstone and then gave her a box with the new birthstone.

I am so glad that we made each time special. With 2nd Preg he was due on my parents anniversary. He ended up coming home on their anniv. I think Mom stuck around to see the baby. She died when he was 11 days old. I felt like she wanted that last gift, and has always watched over him.

 

[Keli]

I didn't really think about doing anything creative when I found out I was expecting our dd Ashli. I just told my parents. We didn't get the chance to tell dh's family because my dh worked at the lab that ran the test on me (still does, lol) and so did his BIL. The BIL found out about the results and went and told EVERYONE. Same thing happened when she was born. We didn't know if it was a boy or girl and as soon as she was born David was to bring her to the door of the family waiting room so they could see her and find out the sex. This same BIL walked into the back of the OB ward (employee priviledge) and found out we'd had a girl so he ran out to the waiting room and told everyone before they had her cleaned up and dh could bring her out. Overall I liked that BIL ok but sometimes he could get on my last nerve, lol.

 

[tmfranlk]

I was in WDW, sans DH, when I found out for sure that I was pregnant. To tell him, I bought a pair of baby mouse ears and had the CM write "Baby Callas" on the back. It took DH a couple of minutes to figure it out he was in such a state of shock.

My mom's birthday was a month later so I waited to tell her until I visited for that. We bought a "Happy Birthday, Grandma" card and signed it Love, Tia, Phil and the Little One.

When my sister was born, I was 20 years old. We told my grandma about mom's pregnancy when she helped me move back to college. During a family dinner, I asked my grandma if she thought she might want to go to St. Louis (mom's home) with me in February (it was August then). She just looked at me funny and said that she might do that. I replied "well, we just thought that you might want to go visit your newest grandbaby." She was in such a state of shock that I think it took a few minutes to figure it out.

 

[septbride2002]

Dang it! I thought you were going to say you were pregnant and looking for ideas!

~Amanda

 

[disneygals]

1st girl....gave the grandparents a baby photo book

2nd girl...gave 1st girl a Big Sister shirt at Christmas in front of everyone

3rd girl... 1st girl, then 3, called everyone


Vivienne

 

[huey duey & luey]

My parents and dh and I used to play scrabble, so we spelled it out on the board (we actually thought it was only twins at that point) For my inlaws, it was my fil bday and we brought him a grandpa card. EVeryone was really shocked because we didint even tell them that we had the invitro done. I actually ended telling most everyone else by 11 weeks or so, because I was already starting to show ans someone at work asked me if I were pregnant As for my dh I made him find out first because I was so nervous.
Tara

 

[lilallybean]

So how many did you end up having? If you thought it was ONLY twins at first. Goodness, I can't even begin to imagine more than one at a time!