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!
We weren’t sure how excited my in-laws would be that we were expecting a 5th child (our second together) because they don’t exactly think big families are a good thing. So anything cutesy was out. We were visiting over dinner and my husband said “oh, did S tell you what she got last month?” and my mother-in-law was like “no, what?” he said “Pregnant.” I though she was going to pass out. But she was happy for us. Eventually.
Now for how to tell her about #6….
I didn’t see this listed so sorry if it was but the other day my friend who is pregnant with her 3rd baby took a picture of a actual hamburger bun in her oven and put it on facebook she had a sign on the stove that said we have a ……then you figured the rest out ! i thought that was just awesome
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! I found out I am currently pregnant (right at 6 weeks) and this is #3 after a suffering a miscarriage 4 years ago. EVERYONE thinks we were done having anymore kids, well so did I until last week :)~ SO needless to say I about pee’d my pants when I found out (I AM ECSTATIC!!!!) I was just online trying to find creative ways since my MIL just said the other day something about not getting anymore grandkids so she is going to throughly enjoy the 4 she has….little does she know 🙂 SO the other day I ordered 2 shirts one for my oldest that says The Biggest Sister and the one for my youngest that says The Middle Sister. My FIL is great but doesnt get it sometimes so I am so excited to see how long this takes hime to “get it”!!! LOL This was a perfect timed conversation for me!
Oh my gosh!! I swear we didn’t copy your post! 😉 One of our readers posted back to yours. So much fun. Great minds think alike. I can’t believe we posted this subject within days of eachother. Now we will have one great big HUGE list. I’ll link up to yours in our post. Hop over and checi it out! 🙂 http://www.howdoesshe.com/creative-ways-to-spill-the-beans
Baby 1-blurted to my parents, individually, and asked my mom not to tell yet, then let my dad ask her about me for a couple days!
gave in-laws grandma/grandpa bibs as gifts
Baby 2-put “big brother” shirt on the 8-month-old first child at family gatherings and let someone notice, which seemed to take forever!
Baby 3- (a total surprise) left the test out for my husband to find on the bathroom counter which took all night!
gave my mom the promise of a christmas gift in gift bag with the pregnancy test, which flopped b/c she did not have those 30 and 40 years ago!
when my mother-in-law showed me where she hung the apron with handprints of my two kids, i casually pointed out where baby #3’s print could go
Baby 4-i wrote after christmas thank-you notes to each family member from my children, husband, and self and casually mentioned the next baby (“We will enjoy playing with ___ and will share it with our new baby.” “I will enjoy choosing four charms to go on the mother necklace.”). we mailed the notes and anxiously waited for the phone calls. one of sisters said, well, i read it, but i just thought with three kids you were a bit off and made a mistake! 🙂
with # 3, twentyeight years ago, I prepared a lovely Valentines dinner and fed the other two children earlier. I had written a poem in the local paper for the valentine greetings section and as I was waiting for him to read the paper, the two year old overflowed the toilet! water runnning everywhere and he finally reads the “what will simmons contrive when we are Five?” and remarks happily, Oh arent you just the nut? cleaned up the mess and finally got to enjoy our supper together. AHHH those were the days…….. thanks for bringing back memories
our daughter and her hubby told us, by giving us a box with a pregnancy test stick in it. I of course didnt know what it was, and our teenaged son said to her, ‘ did you pee on that thing? ” it was at that moment that I started jumping up and down and crying with the realization that we were going to be Grandparents. To Twins actually!! a most precious gift from God.
We’ve gone the t-shirt route, too, with both of our younger children.
When my little brother was born (10 years younger than me), my family was sitting at the table for dinner one night. My dad asked my other brother if he would please open the jar of peanuts. He couldn’t b/c it was too tight, and so Dad said, “Well, then I guess you won’t be able to open the baby food jars.” Neither of us thought about it, and kept on going with dinner. A little bit later Dad said to me, “So, you didn’t ask me why your brother would NEED to open baby food jars.” I said, “Well, um, I mean, when he’s married?” I was so confused 🙂 Don’t remember exactly how I figured it out, but finally I did and was super excited!!! Thanks for all the creative ideas in the comments 🙂
I mistakenly told my parents on April 1st, and they refused to believe me, LOL. But I was so excited, I never even thought about the date.
@Michelle Z.,
With our now 17 month old, we told everyone on April 1st. They didn’t believe us. I posted pics of the ultrasound the next day 🙂 But we did that on purpose.
My sister-in-law and husband’s twin brother decided to play a trick on us for April 1st. They told us they were pregnant and I started to believe them. Little did they know, they had a surprise on the way already! About a month and two days later they called us in the middle of the night to tell us they were pregnant and of course we didn’t believe them! So they sent us pictures of the tests!
I haven’t had the best experience with this, mainly because we’re young and our kids are each 15.5 and 16 months apart, respectively.
With #1 I casually mentioned to my mother-in-law that I was sorry to go against her advice to have a holiday baby. She jumped up and down for 5 minutes. 🙂 My mom just told me, “yeah, well that’s what happens when you don’t use birth control.” In her defense she wasn’t quite ready to be a grandma.
With #2 we were at dinner at my in-laws and told my little sister-in-law to tell everyone that my daughter was going to be a big sister. It took everyone a minute to get it. My mom just said, “I was wondering when the next one was going to come along.” (Still not too happy about our decision not to space our children more “practically.”)
With #3 we called everyone on the phone and got less than enthusiastic responses. Not that the in-laws weren’t excited, I think it was just not “new” news anymore. I didn’t even tell my mom, I let my dad tell her. 🙂
Next time around I think I’ll just wait for everyone to notice the belly. 😛
@Emily Kay,
I know how you feel on so many levels!
We have 6 children now (oldest is 8) and I didn’t do anyting special to announce the last few. It’s only fun when they get excited about it!
@The Prudent Homemaker, I’m pregnant with #8 and am dreading telling everyone for that reason. 🙁 We should celebrate every baby!!!
@Jamie, 8! Ah…and I thought I was nuts with wanting a 6th. I don’t feel so bad that I’ve received less than enthusiatic comments as well.
I guess all that really matters is that WE are ecstatic about it.
@The Prudent Homemaker,
I just found out I’m pregnant with my 10th (just miscarried 2 months ago also) so I’m nervous about telling anyone… kind of thinking of waiting til I show, too. Not that there are at least a few who would be thrilled… it’s the ones that don’t care now that it’s #10 that I don’t want to share with. Sad, eh?
@Tabitha Valencic, every baby is a blessing! 🙂