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!
BWAHAHAHA. You need an “announcement” that says this is just a post and not an announcement. 😉
With JrMuffin 1 I did a letter. I wrote it as a child would have wrote it and signed it Jr. Muffin. My mom and I are on a woman’s message board and I knew how to change her name/picture so I did it with an old woman and changed her name to Grandma.
With Jr. Muffin2 I did the tshirt like in pic 1 and mailed it out to grandparents and waited for hubby to get home. My daughter had been stinky for about 1 hour now but I knew he wouldnt get it until he could see the tshirt flat so I asked him to change the diaper while I fixed dinner. I was taking a long time just to cut carrots and wait while he put his work things away, took a drink, a little of this and a little of that. I kept encouraging him to change the diaper! Finally I thougt I was just going to spill the beans when he laid her down to change the diaper. HE stared at that tshirt for maybe 30 seconds like, “Is this for real?” (She was 6mos at the time)
Boy that was one of the most memorable days of my life.
Next time I am putting a single bun in the oven and ask hubby to take it out… we’ll see if he gets it. 😉
@Challice,
Maybe I’ll put a “recipe” card in there that says something like, Bake for 9mos at body temperature.
When I was pregnant, I bought a bib that says “I love my daddy” and gave it to my husband, who immediately began to cry tears of joy. We live in NC, but both sets of our parents live within 15 minutes of each other in SC. We arranged to meet everyone at a restaurant that both parents could get to easily. We had bought a few items at a college athletic shop, including a newborn onesie. When everyone saw our bags, they wanted to see what we bought. I pulled out each item one by one, leaving the baby clothes for last. I said, “And we bought this, but we won’t need it until January” and held up the baby onesie. Amazingly, everyone instantly realized what we meant, and we had a fun evening making baby plans!
A sister-in-law photocopied a sonogram picture onto a postcard and just mailed it out to the family, and sat back waiting on all our phone calls!
With our daughter (now 3 1/2), we gave my in-laws and my parents “I love Grandma” and “I love Grandpa” bibs.
I now am 7 months along with #2, a boy. We found out on Easter, but wanted to have the first appointment to confirm, since I wasn’t yet 4 weeks. It was so hard not to say something at Easter dinner. 🙂
After my appointment, we dressed our daughter in a “Big Sister” shirt and made the rounds to visit my in-laws and my husband’s grandparents (something we do every week). It took them a while to notice her shirt, but everyone was very excited.
We told my parents about this baby on the phone, since we had just come from visiting them (out of state) and wouldn’t see them in person for a while. We also broke the news that it is a boy over the phone.
For our first we told everyone on Christmas. We wrapped up a grandparents photo album and had them open them as the last present. Everything went well at the in-laws, they got it right away. Not so at my parent’s. Lo and behold, a few presents before ours my parents opened a gift from my sister and BIL. I was a grandparent ornament! My sister was announcing she was pregnant too! It is just the two of us and these would be the first grandchildren. So when my mom finally opened ours after all the excitement she said, “Oh, an album for my first grandchild.” I said, “Mom, who was it from?” She still did not get it and thought that we knew about my sister and were getting a present for her baby. My dad finally said, “I think she is trying to tell us something!” She eventually got it and everyone was really excited. At the time, I was a little thrown off though! (We ended up having our babies 10 days apart!)
With our second we did the Big Brother t-shirt thing and with our third we just told everyone. I don’t even remember how I told my family – I like to block out these uncomfortable moments :), but my husband said to the in-laws, “What are you guys doing next May, because we may need a babysitter for a few days.” It took them awhile to get it and I wanted to hide!
I think next time we might need to do something clever by e-mail or FB!
With the third I told my husband by changing the desktop on his computer so that it said “Daddy of Three!” It was quite a surprise for him!
I have heard of people telling their husbands by writing it on their older kiddo’s diaper and he would see it when he was changing him. I thought that was pretty clever.
I clicked through my reader to congratulate you, but I see in the above comments that Fishchick2 will remain the baby…for now??
I’m not a mommy yet…still a newlywed…about to hit the 3 year mark. I’m SO excited to read how people have been coming up with ideas on how to tell parents, husbands, children, family, etc.
I have a friend who for Christmas, bought her husband a pair of shoes and inside the box placed a normal sized shoe for her husband and a “baby” shoe for the other. He was slightly confused for a quick minute and then realized what she was telling him! Of course, opening gifts you take pictures, so she was able to snap pictures and then frame the pictures later. I believe she eventually took a picture and turned it into an ornament.
I can’t wait to see what other stories get shared! 🙂
@Amanda, This is so funny it made me cry with laughter
I am only 7 weeks along. But when we told our parents, we skyped with my daughter wearing a “Big Sister” shirt. My parents needed some help noticing, but my mil noticed on her own (after a few minutes).
We decided that we wanted to take a trip to Europe before starting our family. The opportunity came up to go with my in-laws in February, and by May I was pregnant with our first child. As an anniversary gift for my in-laws, I made a photo album of our trip and my husband wrote a poem for it. The poem spoke of the different adventures on our trip and ended with “There are many things made possible due to this trip. This album, your gift, is one of them. The other is due January 25th.” For my parents, we gave my mom framed photos of all her grandkids with a spot filled with “Grandbaby #5 due January 25th.”
For our second child, we recorded our then 2-year old making the announcement and posted it on our blog. Unfortunately, my in-laws didn’t listen closely enough and thought my daughter was referring to the baby in her Auntie’s belly. They didn’t get it until another family member explained it to them!
With #1, we got the “I love grandma” and “I love grandpa” bibs and drove them down to my parents house. They said they had figured it out when we called and said we had something to drop off (they live an hour away).
With #2, we actually waited until I was about 13 weeks to tell them, due to a number of reasons. I took our first ultrasoun picture and put it in a PowerPoint that said “Coming Soon!” and emailed it to them.
With our first we wrapped up a bib that said I love my Grandpa for my dad. Unfortunately, my dad was sick and didn’t quite get it at first. He thought I was just giving him a bib – because he needed one. Thankfully, someone else read it and then everyone got what we were trying to say!