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Got any cute ideas for telling loved ones you're pregnant?

I'm not pregnant yet (hoping to be), but I'm always thinking about stuff like baby names, and baby room decoration ideas, etc.  My brother and sister-in-law told my parents by taking them out to eat for their anniversary and giving them a "Happy Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa, from new baby!" card which I thought was so cute!  How did everyone tell their loved ones they were pregnant, whether it be your husband or parents or kids, I'd like to know.  Thanks!
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When my husband and I found out we were having a baby, we invited both our parents over for game night. It was right after Christmas, so we told them we found two gifts in the trunk of our car. My mother-in-law has a dog, so we gave them IAMS dog food, and to my parents we gave them a jar of PREGO spaghetti sauce. They thought it was a nice guesture until I told them they had to 'read' into it. My mother-in-law actually started reading the label. :D "I AM PREGO!"
For our next one, I want to do a picture of an ant "-t" a picture of an otter and then a picture of a bee "x2"  AN OTTER BB AKA ANOTHER BABY! :D
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I am TTC and was recently at a candle party with my mom and she mentioned how she missed the smell of baby powder in the house because they had a baby powder scented candle she wanted. So I plan to give my mom a baby powder scented candle to announce my pregnancy when it happens. I plan to give her the candle first, mentioning how I remembered her liking the scent, then giving her a card announcing the pregnancy and the fact that the scent of baby powder will indeed be back in the house!
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mine and my husbands 1st daughter was born 4 months early shes doing great no preemie problems so shes 5months corrected and 9 months old and were 4 weeks along with number 2 were having a baby shower and baptism for and im gonna send my husband to change her and hes gonna put her in a onesie that says im a big sister i think its cute my mother and father know and are not happy we don't get along but i hope people can be happy for us this time because they weren't with her wish us luck
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For my first one, the father of the baby's father found a note in his pocket (I was 16) and copied it and gave the copy to my mother. That is how she found out. For my second, I just came out and said it because I knew I was going to have to do everything alone anyway. For my third, I knitted baby booties and attached a note on it that said surprise, you're going to be a grandmother. It was so cute. My mom and his mom thought that was so funny how I did that. They have them hanging up in their cars now. :)

And for the 16 year old, Like I said, I was 16 when I got pregnant with my first one. I just want to give you some friendly advice and don't get pregnant at 16. It is so difficult to care for them when you are that young! I am only 20 on my third one...
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I know I'm going to get some flak for this but, i just want some ideas, hopefully someone will be kind enough to assist me. First off, I'm 16. NOT PREGNANT YET. I say yet though because, well yes, me and my fiance, FIANCE, are trying to get pregnant. I haven't told my parents yet, but when we finally do get pregnant, i want to tell them the right way, not the, sit down like a guilty teen and just tell them way. Any ideas?
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We never got the chance to say anything. It was wierd. We went to my parents as we usually did every other weekend for a visit and I was just sitting on the couch and my husband was in the kitchen and my dad looked at me and said... you're pregnant aren't you? LOL I don't know, but he just had this intuition about it. Maybe it was written all over our faces. :)
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we are also TTC but i have thought about this too. At a craft store, for us that's hobby lobby, they have little wooden puzzles that have nothing on them. I want to paint something baby related and then do a scavenger hunt around the house with the pieces for my husband. But then for our parents since we have a set that lives close and a set that lives farther away we are going to mail a piece a day so it will go over 4/5 days. It will be a little keepsake that they can have.
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My second child I had someone take a picture of my husband, my daughter, and myself, but I was holding a baby in the picture. I made sure he was covered up so you couldn't see him, but just a bundle of baby. It took a second for everyone to catch, but it was hilarious when it dawned on them.

My sister in law gave a jar of Prego sauce to my mother in law with something cute written on it about being Prego, but can't remember what it said.

I am currently pregnant and going to give my parent's, and in-laws, Easter eggs with all their grand children's pictures on the eggs. My sister in law is also expecting so I will put mine and her due date on two of the eggs. This will be perfect for my parent's because my baby will make baby number 12 a even dozen.
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My older brother and his wife live in Nova Scotia and my parents in Montreal. My parents flew down for a visit one weekend. My brother and wife were there to pick them up at the airport. He popped the trunk of his car and got them to open it. Inside, displayed on the carpet of the trunk, were 2 bibs. One said "I love my Grandma" and the other said "I love my Grandpa". They had had a rough ride getting pregnant and my parents started crying and everyone was hugging and so happy!
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I actually have a couple of different ideas on how I plan to tell both sides of my family that I'm pregnant.  Next week I'll know for sure if I am...OMG, can't wait. Anyway, since Christmas is coming up, I was thinking we could share the news then.  My husband and I are always introducing fun games to play around the holidays.  I was thinking we could pretend that we've got this really cool game where you have to figure something out as a group.  We'll say that each person will have a clue and you have to build upon each other's clues or something silly like that.  We'll then give everyone a box.  They have to all open it at the same time and have 60 seconds to try to figure out what the answer is.  Well...in each box, there will be pink & blue tissue paper with some type of baby item in it (pacifier, bottle, rattle, bib, etc.). I just plan to go to the dollar store.  But when everyone opens it, of course they'll figure it out right away that we're pregnant! Hopefully we can get it on camera! What a great Christmas present that will be!

I also love the idea of putting the ultra sound on the cake! OMG, how adorable.  I just don't know who I could do that for and I really don't know if I can wait until I get an ultra sound I'll be so flippin excited.  

Ok so now that I have my husband's side covered, I just have to figure out how to tell the other sides.  I have my Mom's side and my Dad's side left.  I'll probably tell extended family and friends with a simple phone call.  



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well hubby and i weren't super creative but we didn't know how to tell our parents (besides my mom because she was there when i tested) but what we did was we got little gift boxes. one for each of his parents and one for my dad. inside we put baby tissue paper and inside the paper we put a "i love my grandma/pa" bibs and 2 rattles (we didn't tell them until after we found out we were having twins...i was pretty good at hiding the belly from them until then...) and under both of those a picture of the sonogram needless to say they were shocked. lol. his mom started to cry and jumping up and down.
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We were not all that creative when we went to tell my family, But I'll never forget what my husband said on the car ride to their house.  My husband was very quiet in the car so I asked him what he was thinking.  He pulled the car to the side of the road & said, " Your Dad's going to hate me".  This confused me since we had been married for 5 years & we saw my parents at least once a week.  My Husband continued "Your Dad's going to know for sure that I had sex with his daughter". LOL
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My husband and I just went on vacation to Minnesota, and on our last day in the hotel we took a pregnancy test.  We got one of the digital ones that says "yes" if you're pregnant.  It said yes!  So we took a picture of it and are going to get all of our vacation pictures developed.  We are going to let our parents flip through the vacation pictures and have the preg. test one at the end and just let them figure it out!  It should be pretty fun to watch!
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I just found out I'm pregnant and I'm thinking of doing something with "labor day" to tell our extended family. We'll probably tell our immediate family sooner because we'll be too excited. I got my husband a balloon that said congrats and had a paper with baby written all over it that said To Daddy attached at the bottome with the pregnancy test on the counter nearby. For his parents we're giving them a onesie that says " What happens at Grandma's stays at Grandma's" we got it for 3 bucks at Walmart. Cheap way to tell them.
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You could send everyone a We're expecting announcement. This is what I plan on doing. There is a really cute website www.****.com that specializes in baby birth announcements and they can make their cards into any occasion you're looking for. They are super cute and very trendy. I have an older son and I am planning on getting a "I'm gonna be a big brother t-shirt for the picture. So when your family and friends gets the mail for the day they get a really great surprize.
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We had all the family over for a party.  My sister was pregnant but no one else knew.  She wanted to get a family photo.  But the video camera was set up too.  So she said let's get everyone in a video.  So the camera is rolling, my BIL starts talking and says on the video that they are having a baby.  We got everyone's reaction on video.  It was great!

BTW, my BIL has a habit of scratching his nose when he's nervous.  He's doing it in the video every few seconds!
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my parents live far away in the pacific, (samoa) but right now my husband and i are living with my in laws. we've been trying to get prego for almost a year now and we've been talking about baby names, he'd come up with his little boys name and i come up with my little girls names. its really fun to do it. we also have baby cloth already, we see something nice and buy em just a little something to look forward to, but anyways we came up with some ideas of how to tell his parents we're having a baby, (not pregnant yet) like we'd use one of our baby cloth saying i love grama and another one saying i love grampa and post them on the family fridge, and put a little baby bottle wrapped with a gift bow in the fridge in that way we dont have to be upstairs to hear their screaming but wait for their response, i love all the ideas girls, you guys are all creative and maybe i will use most of your ideas for more babies if possible! and yeah maybe call my parents and surprise them on the phone or send them a card to say i love grama and grampa!! i hope that works for them!!
sometimes i think to myself that i dont want my husband to know that im pregnant i wanted to surprise him in a very creative way, i'll probably take him out for dinner and give him a card that says i love you daddy! n maybe have him against my stomach and tell him our baby's having fun hearing that daddy's happy to meet him/her!! i think the ultrasound frame will be another very cute way to say it, but yeah hope this helps..
i love this converssation!!
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Love all your ideas.  You could toss a few pacifiers or rattles in the salad at dinner or put other little baby toys in the bottom of the bowls of what ever you are serving for your guests to find.  Or even freeze some of the little things you can get for a baby shower in an ice cube and serve in your guests drinks.  Serve everything little.  Baby hamburgers, use baby crackers for dip etc. The only other food things I can think of with Baby that has not already been mentioned is Baby Ruth, baby greens, baby potatoes, and baby food. Maybe set the table with baby utensils.  If you like movies, make up a card like a movie clicker thing or use the package that you rent your movies from and make a card that says "Coming Soon - Baby ______  Jan. 30th 2009 Rated PG" haha.  You could even rent a funny movie like Daddy Day Care. Take your hubby out to the movies and sneek a baby toy into the tub of popcorn for him to find.  For telling other family members that don't live close by, you could send baby bottles with a note in it " A message in a bottle" ha ha.  Hope these help and good luck to all of you & have fun.  I have my 2 dollbabies already, they are my greatest accomplishments!  
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My friend did this when she was pregnant....she changed her email address to say "and baby" Then she just started emailing everyone... It was adorable... So, if her email address was ***@**** changed it to ***@**** thought this was adorable!
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My husband and I just found out we are pregnant for sure yesterday. We are going to tell our mothers on Sunday for Mother's Day.

We're giving them each a bottle of Almond Champagne and a homemade card with a picture of our positive pregnancy test on the outside and on the inside it will say, "Happy GRANDmother's Day!"

We hope they like it!
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I love the idea of putting a "I'm gonna be a big brother" shirt on your dog.  We have a 135 pound bloodhound and just found out we are pregnant for the first time- I am going to go find a shirt today (it may need to be in the toddler/older boy section).  For our close family and friends we can show in person and for my siblings that live far away we will send a picture through email.

Thanks for the idea!
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JUST THOUGHT OF AS A SURPRISE FIND THE ROOM THAT U DECIDE TO GET TURNED IN TO THE BABYS ROOM AND BRING UR HUSBAND IN AND BE LIKE WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS ROOM FOR THE BABYS ROOM? HE WON'T BE EXPECTING IT.HE'LL BE LIKE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? AND SAY IT FAST. HE'LL BE LIKE DID YOU JUST SAY YOUR PREGNANT? I MYSELF AM ONLY 22 AND STILL DATING MY BOYFRIEND AND WERE PRE-ENGAGED RIGHT NOW WERE WAITING TILL WE GET MARRIED. WE HAVE BEEN DATING FOR ALMOST 13 YEARS. WERE NOT READY. I JUST BEEN READING UP ON THIS STUFF FOR THE FUTURE. GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE MOTHERS TO BE!
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We found out we were preggo 2 days after Christmas and decided to wait until the 2nd trimester to make the big announcement.  We were all getting together for my birthday around that time and decided it would be the perfect opportunity to tell the whole family.  We had the US printed right on the cake (Stop and Shop, Carvel's can do this) and has "We're Pregnant!" written on it instead of Happy Birthday.  We dimmed the lights and everyone began singing "Happy Birthday".  My husband brought the cake in with lit candles and placed it on the table in front of me.  A few people loked confused, but then one person yelled out "Is it true?!" and then everyone knew!  I couldn't stop crying!!
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WELL I DONT HAVE ANY GREAT IDEAS, BUT IF SHOWING THE PREGNANCY TEST IS A MUST THEN WHY NOT JUST TAKE A PIC OF THE POSITIVE TEST AND SHOW THE PIC.....THAT WAY NOBODY HAS TO TOUCH SOMEONE ELSES URINE.
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