Creative Way to Announce Pregnancy

One cute thing I had heard was a couple had a sonogram done - didn't find out what gender the baby was - but had the doctor write it on a card and put in a sealed envelope. Then the couple invited their family to dinner and announced it then - and later they opened the card and all found out what the baby was together. Good Luck!!

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Send emails to the people you are announcing to with pictures of your boys holding a poster that says...Guess what we're getting for (closest holliday to due date)...and then send another picture saying a new baby.

Other suggestion. Buy blank puzzles at the craft store and write on them the announcement in a rhymy way and then mail them out to family. They have to put the puzzle together to get the message

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If this would be number 12 for the grandparents I would buy a dozen eggs and hardboil them. I would write the name of each of the 11 grandchildren on an egg and the last I would put a big question mark on it. Then give them the eggs tied up with a bow. Encourage them to open them and they will notice all their granchildren's names as well as the question mark. I suggest hard boiling in case they get dropped.

It is creative and different, they'll never expect it with a dozen eggs.

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I am pregnant with my first baby. I wanted to do something a little special to tell my family and especially my parents. I had someone that I know that does embroidery work get two baby bibs. On one of them she put I Love my Mama then a little smaller under it she she put baby S.. She did another one that said I Love my Papa then also under it put Baby S.. It happen to be my mothers birthday so I put her present in a box and under it put both of the bibs with the one for her first. All of my family was there watching her open her presents. She opened her gift pulled her present out then picked up the bibs. It took her a second to realize what it was for but once she saw Baby S. on the bottom she let out a huge gasp and jumped up with her head spinning around trying to find me. She was crying and ran over and gave me a big hug. She was so excited. It was such a priceless moment for me because none of my family new about it and was all surprised at the same time. Especially my mom and dad. ____@____.com

My cousin had the letters that spell baby cut out (I think they were those letters that you would see on toy wooden blocks) They may sell them at some craft store. Or you could use scrabble looking letters. The card with all the loose letters in there said "Am I going to have to spell it out for you?"
I announced my pregnancy to my parents on Mother's Day and sent a nice framed picture of our sonogram. It didn't take my mom too long to figure it out. Plus, it was the first grand-child on both sides, so I sent both mom's a Happy Grandmother's Day card.

Congrats! :) When I found out I was pregnant I scanned in the ultrasound picture and uploaded it to http://www.birthdayalarm.com/. There I created an e-card and it sent it out to family and friends.

One of my friends bought a t-shirt and created her own 'iron on patch' (you can get them at target) - it said "Knocked Up!" She wore it to work (we have a very casual work environment) - but that is how she 'told' family and friends. I thought it was a great idea!!!!

Good Luck! Let us know what you decide on!

Hi J.,
I was going to suggest the fortune cookie idea...invite the family out with you to a chinese place and have the server in on it and handout the SPECIAL cookies to your family. We're not even trying for #2 yet, but I've already got it picked out how we're going to announce it! HAHA OR, you could take my #2 idea...

M&M's can make you personalized candies. My cousin had them at her sweet 16 and it was a hit. They were in her colors of the party (pink, silver & black) and they said "Happy 16 Amanda" & "Sweet 16". You could have them say "Is it a boy?" on the blues ones and "Is it a girl?" on the pink ones! Just a thought!! I hope none of my family stumbles upon my ideas! LOL

Hi, I used preemie diapers as invitations to my youngest's baby shower, and I thought you could just adapt them to announcing your baby to the world. I looked up a font on Word that I liked, typed out what I wanted the invitation to say, printed it out. Since I have a fairly good hand at writing, I then used a marker and wrote out each individual diaper by hand in that font. Everyone loved it and brought their invitations to the shower. Most thought I had had them professionally printed that way, too! It was a success!

A friend of mine sells fortune cookies right here in Flower Mound (she can ship them anywhere). You can order small or large fortune cookies and have her put in a specialized message. See sumocookies.com. They are delicious too! (my husband is a pastry chef and bakes them for her :)

I don't know if you're already done this one or not, but try putting a "big brother" t-shirt on the baby & a "big brother-again" tshirt on the oldest. We had a friend that did that & everyone loved it. They oooed & awwwed over the shirt for 10 minutes before they realized what it was actually saying!!! :) Good Luck on your quest!!

My girlfriend made a DVD in addition to having an e-announcement that combined both photos and videos. It was about 3 minutes long, but a real tearjerker. The lady that made it for her has a website called www.makethemcryproductions.com

i hope that helps!

Boy, these are all great!
I love all of these ideas. I don't really have an idea. But, we are trying for a baby too. It will be my 4th but his first and we wanted to be creative too. Love all these great ideas...
WOW! Congrats on baby # 3 and hope your pregnancy will be a safe and healthy one.
My idea was really simple, but I will share it anyway since I didn't see it given to you by anyone yet.
how about something like a maternity t-shirt that says "shhh baby is sleeping" and wear it over there. It's easy to make a gift into something if it's close to a holiday or birthday.
Wrap the test itself, get the 3D imaging done and recorded and send the tape to them or say you are coming over for a movie and pop that tape in. Power Point show and email to them.
Personally I love the dozen egg idea...lots! I can't remember now what she said, but did it say anything about coloring them like Easter Eggs too. that's neat.
The whole dozen thing is a good thing to go with...
12 pk. drinks and write on them, dozen donuts, and spell it out...
Okay just a few....don't forget to tell us what you did!
T.

We did the Christmas gift thing too. Most of our family is out of state so we thought it would be fun to get special gifts announcing our pregnancy. It worked out well because my husband's family opens gifts Christmas Eve and mine open Christmas Day. So we were able to spend lots of time on the phone with everyone and it was still very special even though weren't together.

For our next I'm getting a giant fortune cookie from www.gooodfortunes.com and you can personalize a message. I think you can also do smaller ones with a personal message as well for other family members. It's like $30 for the big one but I've ALWAYS wanted to do it since seeing it on tv!

We took the ultrasound they did to confirm our pregnancy and health of the baby...not sure if that is always done early in the pregnancy...but I would hope so. Anyways, I took that and put a cute border on the picture then at a family dinner I gave my mom and grandma each a card with the picture inside. They were estatic when they realized what it meant.

Make a Family Tree and have an open spot and name it Baby ____ and give it to them as a gift. It'll take them a few minutes to realize and the look on their face will be priceless!

C.

For our third, we bought a picture frame that said "grandchildren" or something similar, and had different openings in it. We put one picture of each of the boys in a slot. Then for the last opening we took a picture of a hamburger bun sitting in our oven. It took my mom a minute to figure out what it was and get the whole "bun in the oven thing", but once she did it was a big hit.

This time around she made it easy on us. It was Christmas, and my folks were getting ready to head up to see us. She commented that if we had any more kids she was going to have to buy a SUV to carry all the presents. So dh went out and bought a Matchbox SUV and we wrapped it up and gave it to her Christmas morning. She got that one right away!