How did you share the good news with your family?

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How did you or how are you planning on sharing the good news with your family and friends? We're going to wait until after our 8 week appointment and ultrasound before telling our close family and friends. I already know from my previous pregnancies that I'll probably start to show around 12 weeks ( I know mostly bloating). At 11 weeks I have to go to a wedding with my entire family in San Diego and so I'll want to tell everyone before that. 

Anyhow what was your cute way of telling your family? I gave my daughter the positive test and let her tell my husband maybe for my family I will get her a big sister shirt that she could wear to dinner.

ketona31479 · Answer

Im 26 weeks with my second and we are not telling my side of the family (reasons I wont go into) DH's family has known sense 14 weeks, I accentdently told when DH's cusin was going through her clothes to give me and it spread very fast to his other family members.

NicMom · Answer

angela I love your ideas! I am thinking of two things...

- for our family that lives in Colorado putting a big sister shirt on my 18 month old when the family is all together. 

-for our family that lives in California taking a video of her in the shirt and putting it on youtube. I've sent out other videos of the kids that way so they wouldn't think anything of it. 

I did watch videos today of people telling their families and there is always that one person who is standing there scratching their head going I don't get it. It's pretty funny.

angela418 · Answer

For my son (born Dec '09), I just gave the envelope to my parents that had the 8-week ultrasound pictures in it and said I wanted them to see something.  I wasn't clever enough to think of something good...lol  

For my daughter (due this June), I made a "Big Brother" onesie for my son and when we were over at my dad and step-mom's house I asked them to change him and his clothes and handed them the onesie.  They read it and laughed like oh haha, he'll be a big brother one day..it took them a minute and once they got it they were super surprised and excited!  

Then, since we weren't going to see my mom and step-dad for a while, I took a video on my cell phone of my son wearing the onesie and also walking (he had just learned how) so I told my mom to watch the video of him walking and zoomed in on the shirt.  She called and of course had noticed the message on the shirt!  

When I announced that this was going to be a girl, I tied a big pink ribbon around my belly and my DH took a picture of just my belly with the ribbon and I sent the picture message to my family and it said "it's a..." and most people got that I meant girl by the pink ribbon -except for one of my sisters who was a little slow to catch on - LOL

I love reading the other ideas, too!  Let us know how you tell people, NicMom!

frank_noahsmommy · Answer

With this pregnancy if all goes well I am definitely going to wait till I have a bean in a picture!!! With my last 5 (all ended in a m/c) I jumped the gun because my whole family new we were trying and told them!!!! I had only got to see a bean with the 1st m/c and that date is coming up march 3rd so I am hoping history is not going to repeat itself!!!

kerriekab · Answer

We were going to wait until after 12 weeks to tell our family but 11 weeks fell on Christmas day and i really wanted to give them the best christmad present ever! For my mom and sister i got baby shirts and one said "My grandma loves me" and the other said "I love my auntie, she rocks". I put the tshirts in a box with tissue paper over the top. I waited the whole morning until we went to my nan's house when my whole family would be there. Then i got my mom and sis to open them at the same time. My sister got it first and everyone cried!! 

My bf just told his mom on the phone because she was in America at the time. 

For my dad and step mom i got decorate your own mugs and painted "soon to be" on one side then "papa Ade" and "nana Jane" on each and put in boxes again with tissue paper on the top. That was good because they didnt get it at first as the "soon to be" side was facing up but then when they saw the rest they cried too!

For my bf's dad and step mom i found a grandparents poem on the net and tweaked it a bit. It basically reveals through the poem that they will be grandparents. I printed it out and put it in a frame. We wanted them to open it when all of the bf's family was there but it worked out that we were in the club on boxing day and they opened it there. His step mom was reading it out and she started crying before she had even finished reading it! It was really sweet.

If ur looking for inspiration go on youtube and just type in pregnancy announcements. there are so many ideas!

Good luck!

needhelp24121 · Answer

I think we are going to wait until after the first ultrasound and show the pics to our parents and siblings. We will probably just text others. My extended family is huge and close, so word will travel fast.

NicMom · Answer

Joy- I remember when you did that lol. I thought that was cute. 

dtravis- that's a good idea too.

dtravis87 · Answer

I am due Oct.2nd and for the furture grandparents aunts and uncles once i get ny 12 week u/s we are getting these really cute picture frames that have little tablets in them and are gonna put in a copy of the u/s and they say cute stuff like "Grandparents Sprinkle Love on the lives of little children: and "Uncle, like your dad only cooler"and the aunt one says "Aunt: Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister, and share love like a friend." we think thats a sweet way to let them know lol

JoyRenee · Answer

When I found out I was pregnant on Halloween in 2008 I wiped the positive test with an disinfectant wipe and put it in a Trick-or-Treat bucket. My husband had run to the store and when he got back I held out the bucket and said, "Trick or Treat?!" It was super cute! Maybe something like that since you're due in Oct?!

NicMom · Answer

That's a cute idea. We're due in October so I could make a cake with a pumpkin on it or something. My dh says I already have that pregnant look about my face I get sick looking and puffy. So I'm avoiding the family until we're ready to tell them. I hope my mom doesn't guess it before we get to tell her.

JoyRenee · Answer

My oldest wore a Big Sister shirt when we were expecting during our 2nd pregnancy (miscarriage; we didn't wait for a sonogram or evidence of viability).

Another of my pregnancies we just called and texted people. 

This last pregnancy we made a special cake with pink and blue binkies for decoration and lots of pastel-colored sprinkles. No one got it, though. So I had my oldest daughter come over and she said, "Hey everyone, listen to me! My mom has a baby in her tummy!" Then everyone got the cake. Maybe if you go the cake route write something on it like, "Coming in [Birth Month]"!