Creative Ways to Announce You're Expecting.

My husband and I found out together after taking a home-pregnancy test. However, we did decide to use creative methods to tell our families since most people thought we would never have children (it took us almost 8 years to get married!)

We waited until after our first trimester with both of our children. With our first baby, our first trimester ended just before Father's Day. My husband and I gave each of our fathers a photo album with an ultrasound picture. I'll admit it took both of them a short time to figure out what it was, but when they finally realized what they were looking at, they were overjoyed!

With our second, our first trimester ended just before Valentine's day. Since I love rubber stamping and make hand-made cards, I made Valentine's cards for our immediate family members and wrote the following poem inside:
"Roses are red, violets are blue, there's someone anxious to meet all of you. We know you've been hoping, your wish has come true, a new baby is coming, in August we're due!"

Congratulations!!

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for out second we had my little girl call and tell everyone. It was cute. Congrats!! and good luck

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I had a friend who bought a neutral colored baby outfit and wrapped it up as a gift to her husband. When he opened it, he was confused for a second, then got the idea. They both loved the outcome!
As for telling your parents, you could buy a little something that says "I love my Grandma" or something with grandma or grandpa in it and give it to them as a present.

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When I got pregnant the second time all my sisters had already had children too so my mother was already a grandmother of 10. I simply sat talking with her about regular things and waited for one of the grandkids to come by and ask her for something. Then I said wow mom you sure have alot of grandkids now Christmas is going to be expensive buying for 11 (which was one more than she had). She agreed with me and went on with the conversation but in about a minute she recounted the kids and realized what I meant and called all my sisters from the other room so she could tell them. She was so excited you would have thought it was her first grandchild.

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I'm going to cheat today, I'm copying and pasting an old response that I wrote to another person but I really thought it was fun the way we told my parents.

With telling my parents it was more of just a conversation. I was on the phone with my mother and telling her a story of how my husband met an old classmate of his (which is true). I went on explaining how he thought it was fun to catch up on od thing and how my husband was happy how life has changed for him since then. He's gotten married, moved into a bigger apartment, got a full time job as a teacher, has a baby on the way...... It took my mom all of 3 seconds to scream WHO'S HAVING A BABY?!?!?!? i responded that we were going to have a baby and she continued to scream OH MY I GOTTA GO I GOT SOME PHONE CALLS TO MAKE!! She didnt ask me how i was doing, how long along i was or anything just said how she had to go and call people. It was a lot of fun. I hope you find something memorable to do to tell everyone. It really is a lot of fun. Cant wait to do it again myself someday soon.

Some friends of mine had a photo album that they were showing their family of some vacation or something they had done and at the end of the photo album there they had put their ultrasound pictures. I thought that was kinda fun as well..

As for the husband I'm thinking the next time I get pregnant, at some point we will be out and about I will talk him into shopping at a clothing store and I am going to suggest that that I need new pants. (He likes to go shopping with me, kinda a strange guy I know) I figured I would hold up a pair of maternity pants and ask him what he thought of those... Maybe not the most intimate of setting but fun, I hope!!

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If your son can talk pretty good, try video-taping him telling everyone that he is going to be a big brother and show everyone the video to announce it. It's kinda cute to hear it from a little one!

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My sister-in-law did this and it was so cute.

Take a flower seed packet and cover the flower with an Anne Geddies baby in a flower picture. On the back of the seed packet:
Gestation: 9 months, (or however much time is left)
Growing Conditions: Requires lots of love, attention (and whatever else you can think of)

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hi
I would tell my husband that you need to talk to him. we need to talk about something pick a day to do it

i hope this work for you

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I had my son wear a soon-to-be-a-big-brother t-shirt. It was cute and it took a while for everyone to read the shirt. It was kind of funny when they finally realized what he was wearing.

Have fun!

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I think a really cute way with Valentine's day coming up is to send valentine's to your family from the baby to be. Subtle but very cute. Cindy F

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Congrats M.! I didn't read the other responses, so forgive me if someone already gave you this idea. When I found out I was prego again. I made a poster that said "Guess What.....I am going to be a big brother". I had my son hold it and took a pic. I sent it to all our family and friends.

If there is a holiday around, you can give family members gifts with a two theme... ie (a 2 candle, two turtle doves, etc). They'll probably look at you funny until they figure it out. It's fun though. Congrats again!!!!

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This is what my husband did to tell his parents that we were expecting our 2nd child. His mom keeps a calendar on the wall that she write everything on so my hub wrote the due date on the calendar. My son was due close to my birthday so he asked his mom if she could check her calendar to see if she would be available for babysitting that weekend. Thinking that we would be going out for my birthday, she checked it then came running back in the room. She was surprized that we already knew the due date, but loved the surprize. With our first born, my hub told his parents that "in November we'll be getting a room mate". For some reason his dad thought that we were getting a pet. His mom caught on right away. They were elated. They were even more excited when we found out that it was a girl b/c my husband is the oldest of 5 boys.

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Here is just an example of what we did when we were expecting our second child. We ironed the saying "I am going to be a big brother" on a shirt. He wore the shirt on Christmas Day with another shirt over it. We had my mother take off the one shirt and "tada" she got to read the shirt underneath. My mother (grandma) was so excited. She absolutely loved how we told her.

K.

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I have just a couple ideas.....you could send them bouquets of pink and blue flowers like caranations....or send a digital picture frame to them with the baby's first ultrasound picture loaded onto the picture frame.

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Buy or make your 2 year old son a tshirt that says "I'M GONNA BE A BIG BROTHER" and put it on him and wait for everyone to read it. You can buy the tshirts online or make one.
Buy a plain tshirt and then you can make it with fabric glue and yarn/beads or just buy fabric paint. All supplies are available at a craft store like Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
GOOD LUCK & CONGRATS!!!!

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You could make a shirt for your 2 yr old that says something like, "I'm going to be a big brother!"

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if you like chinese food- put a piece of paper that reads " your family is will be getting bigger soon" or something like that in a fortune cookie

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Okay, like I said in one previous post, Im a little bolder than most, so don't message me and tell me Im a nut! (I already know...LOL) \

My first thought would be to go online and get a t-shirt that says 'knocked-up', I almost bought one just to make my MIL crazy when I was pg. The also have more creative sayings that aren't so crude...haha! Just do a search.

L.

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How we told our family what the baby's sex was, we ordered a special Dairy Queen cake that said "We have this cake for you to enjoy to find out if we're having a girl or a boy." They wrote (with food safe marker) a little XY on the cardboard and the family had to eat the whole cake to see what the sex was. Maybe you could get a Valentine's Day cake, or even make one, and write on the cake "Happy Valentine's Day from the 4 of us!" or "Guess what...? We have a new little Valentine joining the family." Something along those lines may be cute. Either way, it's fun to announce. :)

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We had my parents over for dinner. I put a hamburger bun by itself on a rack in the cold oven. After dinner had started, I asked my dad to please get the food I forgot in the oven. It was very funny. He grabbed two pot holders to bring over the bun and place it on the table. Mom looked puzzled and Dad started eating, so I said, "Oh, there's a bun in my oven?" Mom laughed and Dad still looked puzzled. I guess this only works if your family is familiar with the phrase...

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Boyds bears has a stork. I bought it and wraped it up and gave to my in-laws as a gift.

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Hi M.! First of all... CONGRATULATIONS! When I was expecting my first child, I found out I was pregnant right around Father's Day, and the baby's due date was Valentine's Day... So, on Father's Day, I created a card on the computer that said, Happy Valentine's Day on the outside, and on the inside it said, "Why am I wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day on Father's Day?... Because that's when you'll be a Father for the first time! It's only an estimate of course, but that's their best guess! :-)"

He actually cried!

I made similar cards for the grandpas too.

Since it's almost Valentine's Day now, your husband will be expecting a Valentine's Day card. So you could give him a Halloween or Thanksgiving card (whichever is closer to your due date), and say something like "Why am I giving you Halloween card on Valentine's Day? Because we'll have something much more concrete that celebrates our love then... Daddy... x2... :-)"

Good luck!
D.
Michigan
Mom of 3 - Ages 10, 5, and 3

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When I find out that I was pregnant with my first child I went to the local dollar store and bought a binky. I wrapped it up and when my husband got home from work I had him open it. My mom did the same thing to my dad when she found out that she was pregnant with my little brother, that's where I got the idea. As for your family, you could get them some newborn baby supplies and tell them that they will be needing them a few months down the road. I told my mom and dad and in laws by emailing them a scanned copy of my first ultra sound (the doctor did that to find out how far along I was). I called my mom and told her to check her email and was on the phone with her as she found out. The response was great! I hope that gives you some ideas!

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I took my husband to a restaurant and previously arranged for the waiter to bring my husband a small stuffed toy giraffe in a gift bag. It took just a second for him to get it. I know there are tons of ideas if you google creative ways to announce a baby. Fill the room with pink and blue balloons, leave a newborn baby diaper with congratulations, daddy! on it in a visible place he'll run into it (like the refrigerator?)... you'll find the perfect idea for you!

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We bought our favorite book, 'I'll Love You Forever', and wrote in the inside cover (Dear Grandma and Grandpa, or Dear Aunt and Uncle....will you please read me this book often, it's my favorite...and signed it from the baby). We drove to their houses and rang the doorbell and left it at the front.....

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I don't know if this will work to initially tell everyone, but we did this when we surprised out family with the gender.
We made up a DVD on the computer with a photo program, of our whole family ( hubby's side, siblings, nieces, nephews, etc.) I started out with each person having a frame that introduced them, then their photo. Once it got to the grandkids, I did that in order: Austin O'Bray- then his picture pops up, well our son is the youngest, so I got to his, and then right after his picture came up, the next frame read " It's a Girl" and her name and then a picture of her ultrasound.
You can use this idea, without a picture too.
Hope this helps, maybe for someone else too. It was a fun video, and everyone watches it over and over, since everyone was included in it!

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When I was pregnant with my 2nd son, my 1st son helped me share the news. I made signs that said...

Hi Dad!
Guess What?
I'm going to be a BIG BROTHER!!

I had some other new pictures that my husband hadn't seen, so I put together a little photo album with the new pictures then pictures of my son holding each of these signs. We gave the photo album to my husband to look through and loved the look of surprise on his face as he got to the last 3 pictures. My son was older than yours, so he was excited to be in on telling dad.

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We told my parents by sending them flowers from my 3 year old son and on the card had the meassage that he was going to be a big brother. It was a very fun way to tell them our news

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A picture frame worked for me. Since the Mom, usually gets the pictures up, he'll wonder why you gave him and empty frame...then just explain it's for #2.

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I had a ribbon that I tied around my stomach with a little tag on it that said "Do not open until.......(listing my due date)". I was actually due in December so I made the tag with green and red and said it was an early Christmas present.

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Our first was more interesting - he was a first grandchild both sides too! -- Gave my hubby the "stick" in a box, with a bib that said "Love You Daddy"
Had the parents and inlaws over for a brunch - gave the grandmas booties, each got a pink and blue -- there was screaming going on :)
I also like "Lacy's" Tshirt idea -- my SIL had my MIL - wear a shirt that said "My Wife is a Hot Momma" :)

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I recently thought I was pregnent (but found out I wasn't) but I was going to do this and tell everyone one V-day. On "http://www.mymms.com/" you can personalize M&M's with sayings. I was going to do blue and pink ones and put "Boy or Girl?" and "C-U in
Sept!" Another thing I did for my 2nd baby to tell my husband was put together an Easter basket with blue and pink eggs and baby booties hanging from the handel with 3 positive pregnancy tests inside, while my toddler brought it in to him on Easter morning wearing a shirt that said "I'm the big brother". Later that day we drove to CO to see my family and Ethan continued to wear the shirt...but no one noticed so I just had to tell them.

Good luck!

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My husband and I just had our first baby last year. I found out we were expecting the Saturday before Valentine's day. It just so happened I already had a special dinner planned for that evening.

I set the table elegantly with candles. I made a fancy meal and dessert, and even a menu. I had also bought a special dress to wear to the dinner at home. At my husband's place setting a set a box with a bow on it. It was the size of a ring box. Inside was a little card that said "congratulations, you're going to be a daddy [and the date]."

It was so touching and he was surprised. It made our romantic evening even more special.

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Like LeAnn, I made a shirt for my son that said, "Big Brother March 2005" in pink and blue writing. When my husband came home, my son was wearing the shirt and I had him take the positive pregnancy test to his daddy. My husband was shocked and said, "Well I certainly didn't expect this when I came home today!"

When we were having a family party several weeks later and were ready to tell the family, we had our son wear the same shirt. It took a few minutes before anyone noticed but when they did they thought it was such a cute way to announce it.

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You can get a photo frame that has two photo spaces.
In one you can put a cute photo of your son. In the other space you can write something like "coming to a family near you in the fall of 2008". It would be a fun Valentine's gift.
I did something like this for my 2 year old son and everyone love it. In fact my mother in-law still has it on the wall.

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