Telling Others You’re Pregnant
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Sharing the news that you’re expecting a new baby can be an exciting time. When I was pregnant with my first child, we gave my father-in-law a picture frame carved sayings about grandparents. We wrapped it up and gave it to him for his birthday. He was so happy!
When FishBaby FishChick2 was in utero, I staged the above photo. FishChick3 was a toddler and the known “baby of the family.” It took some people awhile to make the connection that “the baby” really wouldn’t be wearing a “Big Sister” tshirt. I’ve enjoyed being a little clever when I spread the news of an impending arrival.
Yes, yes, I have.
There are a multitude of ways to share your good news with others. And I bet you know of quite a few!
For my co-workers I handed out little baggies of pink and blue jelly bellies! Picture frame for the grandparents with the due date written where the newborn picture eventually went.
For our first, we took a picture of a blue and a pink onsie with our positive pregnancy test, and handed them out to family… my Dad had no idea what he was looking at- I don’t think he’d ever seen a pregnancy test before, so it was pretty funny.
Round two, we had my son hand deliver blue and pink balloons to family all around town. It was a great way to make it personal and involve my son! (Great topic!)
Sounds like you have another FishChick in your future!! Congratulations!!!! Alas, we never shared our news in a creative way. It just came out and that was that.
@Jillbert, no, actually. Just a fun blog topic for people to discuss.
We told our parents about our first baby (this was both sides first grandchild) by giving them a gift bag. In the gift bag was a bib that said “I love grandma and grandpa”. Some caught on real fast and took the others a few minutes, but it was fun. Both sides were so excited to use the bibs at their houses when the baby arrived.
For my in laws, we wrapped a pacifier in one package and a rattle in another package and handed one package to my mother-in-law and the other to my father-in-law. My mother-in-law immediately started shouting and my father-in-law had a very puzzled look on his face. My sister-in-law said dad, they are expecting!!! This happened nearly 24 years ago! Thanks for bringing back memories!
Sharing the news with family has been so much fun! With our first born we had our parents over for a nice Mother’s Day dinner and while my husband set out dessert, I handed our moms cards. Inside the card I had written, “The best give we could think to give you is your first grandchild! Happy Mother’s Day!” The best part was that his mom opened & read her card right away, my mom was talking so she didn’t open her card until my mother-in-law started jumping around saying “oh my gosh!”
When we were expecting baby #2 I made a sweatshirt for my oldest that said “Big Brother” and he wore it to both family get-togethers on Thanksgiving. Not everyone got it right away, which made it hilarious!
With our youngest, I used my cell phone to record the baby’s heart beat at my first appt. then I sent it to everyone…then spent the next hour on the phone with all the calls/texts back! Baby #3 also ended up being our first girl. To share that bit of news, I copied the sonogram pic and framed it in a ‘baby girl’ frame with a caption of her name. Then I wrapped it up and gave it as Christmas gifts to our mothers…priceless reactions! They didn’t even know that we had had the sonogram yet. 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to wander down memory lane! I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s stories!
Hmmm… and are you sharing news NOW?
@Trina, no. This is just another aspect of “life as MOM” that I thought might be helpful to others.
@Jessica Fisher,
Cute. I bet you’re gonna get that question a lot today. 🙂
We took both sets of parents to dinner around our 1 year anniversary and gave both moms an envelope of pictures. The last picture in the pile was one from our first sonogram! They loved it. With the second child, we told them all at Thanksgiving dinner.
We had a sunday lunch planned with both sides of the family and I was trying to think of all of the creative things to say to share, but my DH beat me to it, pointed at me and said, “oh, by the way, she’s got a bun in the oven.” 🙂
Can’t help but wonder if this is another creative way of sharing…. If it is, we rejoice with you!
@Heather, no. LOL. It’s baby week, so I’m just sharing all sorts of fun baby ideas and I thought this would be a good one.
@Heather, I must say, I was thinking along the same lines. 🙂 Glad you cleared that up, although I admit, I would love to read your wisdom as a mom facing pregnancy and all else that you do!