Top 10 Ways To Announce – “We’re Pregnant!”
Posted by Kim Lefko in April 15th 2008
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“Honey, I swear I see two lines! Do you?” The excitement burning inside, we are elated, giddy and the feeling comes; there is no way we can go 3 months without telling anyone. There is one upside about waiting 3 months before the big announcement…you have plenty of time to get creative.
We have 13 nieces & nephews and needless to say my brothers & sisters are extremely creative when it comes to announcing the news. My husband and I were anxious for the day it would be our turn…and how would we announce to our family?
I love this topic, especially now, since, not too long ago, we shared the news of our 2nd pregnancy with our family. (Baby #2 due in July)
This announcement was fun – we were celebrating our daughter’s 2nd birthday. Our entire family was coming into town; so we decided to do a “Year in Review” video for our daughter. It ended with her Goal List for 2008 — which included the hard task of “becoming a big sister”. Needless to say our families were thrilled, a lot of screaming, crying and hugging. (the “goal list” is another blog for another day)
Announcing to your family takes one tone and announcing to your team-members at work is an entirely differently deal. I wanted to explain the reason for my growing waistline to my marketing team at Graco. You can imagine how news spreads in an office setting – and I wanted to be sure to tell everyone on the team ‘myself’. You should never break-up via email; but nobody said anything about pregnancy announcement via email.
I was quite impressed with the response time to my email (especially given the timing of 5pm on a Friday) – I received a phone call within 1 minute of pushing send and that phone call was quickly interrupted by 2 young ladies screaming (one pictured here) as they ran into my office. It’s fun to work here and even more fun working with the people on the marketing team!
So I had some fun pulling some of the best ways…and I have created a Top 10 List.
Top 10 Ways to Announce “We’re Pregnant”:
10. Email the ultrasound picture to your family
9. A picture says a thousand words, yes that’s the EPT test.
8. Wrap a baby shoe as a gift to your family or husband
7. If there is an older sibling – the t-shirt announcing “I’m going to be a BIG Sister/Brother” is a sure win
6. My sister-in-law gave my mom a teapot (she collects them) and inside was a note that read; “Time For Tea and Baby #3. Clever!!
5. That same family (they have 6 amazing kids) – met my parents for dinner at a quaint restaurant and my parents were quite excited when they saw the Pink & Blue balloons at the table when they arrived.
4. From a dad-to-be to the future grandpa, “It looks like we will need additional Football Tickets this season”
3. Put an ultrasound picture on your Holiday Card (our special gift is arriving in July)
2. Have a bouquet of balloons (pink & blue) delivered to work or a grandparent’s house
1. And the BEST announcement ever…Anonymous post on a Family Website “Guess Who’s Pregnant”
Any additional ideas you could share with our parents-to-be??
Also check out our post on Five Ways to Announce Your Baby’s Gender
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Five years ago, I bought a home pregnancy test during my lunch hour at work and the idea was that I would take the test first thing in the morning the next day, with my husband standing by.
But I couldn’t wait. I peed on the stick in the stall of the office public restroom, saw 2 lines and then IMed my husband. He immediately called me, but we couldn’t really talk about it since we both were in cubicles with notoriously nosy neighbors nearby.
I then put the peed-upon stick beneath my computer and stole glances at my urine-soaked joy all the rest of the day.
With my first daughter, I wrapped a “I Love Grandma” bib and had my mom open it. She started to cry! Then we just called everyone (boring, I know.)
With my second daughter, I made a little picture with a baby graphic that said “Baby Number Two” and put it in a picture frame and wrapped one for each set of grandparents. It was great fun to see their surprised faces.
Our little nephew wore a “Big Brother” pin on his shirt to dinner at my inlaws one night and they took a picture of him wearing it and e-mailed it to friends and family to announce baby #2. It was really cute.
For my first son I gave my mom a bag full of yarn and she figured out that she needed to make a baby blanket really quick without me saying anything. It was so cute and she cried so hard.
for our first we had a bouquet of flowers sent to both sets of grandparents with the note saying something like “gran, i can’t wait to meet you. love, baby james”
with the second we had the oldest wear a shirt that said “i’m going to be a big brother”. it took them (all 4 grandparents) FOREVER to read it and figure it out. we videotaped the whole thing.
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