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Creatively announcing a pregnancy
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When you are ready to announce your pregnancy with family members there are lots of creative ways share the good news. You could:
- Take both sets of parents out to dinner and spill it over a fancy meal
- Serve a baby themed meal (applesauce, oatmeal, teething biscuits) in tiny bowls and see if they figure it out before accusing you of having lost your mind
- Wrap up a baby item for the future grandparents to open
- Hand out copies of the ultrasound picture
- Send out "Save the Date" cards with your due date and tell people when they ask what's the big deal about that date
Or, if your family has a good sense of humor (and healthy hearts!) you could borrow an idea from Nicole, founder of The Soccer Mom Vote and author of Sitting Still. She took a picture of family members a split second after hearing her say, "Hey! We're pregnant!" The look of amazement on her mom's face along with the accusatory/teasing pointing of her mother-in-law makes this shot a priceless addition to the upcoming baby's photo album.
I can't remember how I told people I was pregnant, which is kind of sad because for a while it seemed to be an annual event. However, I do recall sharing pregnancy #3 with my husband by having a hormonal crying fit and apologizing for messing up our finances while he was paying bills. (Nicole's approach would have been better.)
Where you creative when spilling the beans about your baby?
Congratulations to Nicole and her entire family!
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7-10-2007 @ 11:08AM
emellare said...I took a picture of the pregnancy test with my phone and sent it to my husband with the message "do you see two blue lines?" But he didn't get it before I saw him, so I still got to tell him in person.
I was planning creative ways to tell my parents, but my mom ruined the surprise by guessing I was pregnant a week before we were planning to tell. Oh well, maybe next time....
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7-10-2007 @ 11:24AM
Croft said...With our daughter we told the grandparents by giving the in-laws a baby photo frame with the text "photo expected May 2005" where the photo should have been and my mother got a book "But you look to young to be a Grandmother". Some of them were quicker on the uptake than others. With my current pregnancy we just told them...
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7-10-2007 @ 11:32AM
Erin said...With our first, we announced at Christmas. My husband's aunt had just had a baby at the beginning of December so I asked her if she'd mind if we announced at Christmas since she waited so long to hve a baby. She was thrilled....
we told his parents at our Christmas Eve dinner. And planned to announce to he rest of the family the next day... so I wrapped up a brag book and wrote note on the first page... Congratulations Great Grandma and Great-grandpa, Baby Last Name and due date. AS everyone opened gifts, we handed hubby's grandmother the package and his dad took the photo... it was pricless -- it took a moment as her seventh grandchild was just born but this was the FIRST GREATgrandchild! It was quite the moment!
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7-10-2007 @ 12:07PM
Anon for this one said...My mom had very specific food cravings when she was pregnant with me.
The child in my life is not mine biologically, so I haven't had the opportunity to do this, but should I ever become pregnant, I'm going to take my parents to a restauarant and order the two things she craved (which, luckily, both can come from a Jewish deli). (Whether I eat them or not is another matter...)
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7-10-2007 @ 12:38PM
Stephanie said...With our first child we told everyone over the phone since we do not live near family. With our second child we were going to be seeing everyone at Christmas. My husband makes a humorous video for his family's gathering every year and this year he added at the end "We're Having A Baby!" It was fun to share the news with the whole family around.
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7-10-2007 @ 12:49PM
caitlin said...Well,when you get creative, just remember that certain things don't work for all people. My husband's department is mostly male, aside from a couple of project managers.
One of the project managers (who didn't look overweight at all) announced her pregnancy at a catered lunch for my husband's group. Seemingly out of the blue, she announces she doesn't have to diet anymore. Now most guys know better than to touch that with a 10 foot pole, so my husband's group just sort of muttered something indistinctly and she got upset no one told her "Congratulations".
We didn't do anything special for the announcement. My parents were pleased to finally have their first grandchild on the way and my in-laws were pleased to have their third on the way.
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7-10-2007 @ 12:54PM
Erin said...We got t-shirts made up of the ultrasound picture with text saying something to the effect of 'What are you up to June 2005? Cause I can't wait to meet you!' and had them all open them up at Xmas (cause we were across the country).
BTW - why doesn't ParentDish (and all its associated blogs) have gravatars-enabled?!
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7-10-2007 @ 3:11PM
Rob said...I am always the one to give the blessing at Thanksgiving dinner because I work for the church. When it came time to announce our pregnancy I solicited things from each person in the family (15!) and wrote a long poem that announced it. The poem was cheesy, but it was perfect for us!
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7-10-2007 @ 2:45PM
Carrie said...The first time we gave them our pregnancy test and said "I guess God doesn't think we have enough on our plates". Everyone was suprised, except my mom who said "What is this?"
The second time around we met them all for dinner. I took my daughter to the bathroom and put a shirt on her that said I'm Gonna Be a Big Sister. I brought her out and set her in the highchair. Their reactions were priceless...and hubby caught it all on videotape.
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7-10-2007 @ 3:07PM
Jenna said...We put Nicholas, our son, in a shirt that read "I Have a Secret" on the front and ushered him into the room. My family had the best reaction as he turned around to run back to me, shy because everyone was staring intently at his shirt. The back read, "I'm going to be a Big Brother!" (Also announced on our family blog the morning after to let readers and friends/family who read know the big news: http://thejhatfields.org/blog/2007/04/09/nicholas-has-a-secret)
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7-10-2007 @ 4:06PM
Michelle said...We told the Grandparents we were pregnant with our first baby by putting a picture from the internet of a baby at our current gestation in a grandparent picture frame. With our second, we bought our daughter a tee that said "I'm the big sister". Since she was only 15 mos old, my Mom asked "Big Sister of what?".
I was so sick with both pregnancies, and excited with the first and shocked with the second, poor husband just got the news blurted out to him both times!
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7-10-2007 @ 7:44PM
Jill said...I called my mom and said, "Guess what!?" and she answered, "You're pregnant!" This was exactly the same way I told her about our wedding and she'd guessed the same way, so I'm not sure why I tried again. For the humor of it, I did it yet again for baby #2.
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7-10-2007 @ 9:34PM
Erin said...I did the same as Jenna to announce #2 among my online friends. I told one mom and she started teasing everyone online, even creating a website teasing who the first mom was to "fall" to have another child. My second is 15 months after my first ... I was off with the family that weekend and informed them at the time so the mom wasn't allowed to reveal the identity until she was sure the family knew NOT htat they'd read the message board but still...
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