Pregnancy Announcements to DH & Family

On Father's Day, last year, I went to Goodman's and picked up a bracelet box. I took a pregnancy test, put it in the box, and gave it to my DH... he was SOOO thrilled!! It was a great way to superise him, and now we have a good story! The hardest part was keeping it a secret for so long!!
Congrats!!

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.

Hello there, enjoy "trying" to conceive. For my family we decided to wait til we were home over Thanksgiving and went around the table to say what we were thankful for and threw it in there. Then for my in-laws we got them both a present for them to open as an early Xmas present. We gave them the books Just Grandpa and Me and Just Grandma and Me to open because they didn't have those books and they figured it out right away. We wanted to wait til Xmas but we didn't think I could hide it anymore since I was already in my 2nd trimester. No matter what way you tell them it'll be special and exciting. Good luck.

I bought my husband a congratulations card with baby footprints on the outside. Inside of it I wrote. Congrats! You're gonna be a Daddy!
Then I gave him a book called the Everything a Daddy Should Know Guide......or something like that. It broke down what to expect durring your pregnancy in guy terms (which he loved)

For our parents we purchased a sectioned picture frame. Ours had 4 sections specifically. We put a wedding picture of my husband and I in one of the slots, a pic of my 6 year old son in another, a pick of our family dog in the other one, and a picture of baby feet in the last one. With the caption "Arriving Summer of 07". Although, it took my mom a minute to figure it out, she balled her eyes out after she caught on. Not to mention she has a nice frame now with photos of my family. All she has to do is swap out the foot photo with the picture of the baby once hes here. :)

I told my husband about our first pegnancy by meeting him for dinner. When he met me, I was holding a bunch of baby balloons and a baby teddy bear. No words were needed. It was met with much success and happiness. For our second child. I had ordered pizza in and when it came I quickly placed a clear,plastic box with a pair of baby booties(they were sold like that) on top of the pizza. I placed the pizza on top of the table and let him open it. Talk about SURPRISE! For our family we bought grandparent picture frames and wrote up a message for the picture area-"announcing the arrival of baby___, due ___, etc.." Good luck. Howerev you do it, it will be met with much happiness and excitement. Parenthood will rock your world, but it is so worth it.

I wrote a poem and put my test sticks next to it and the second time around I ran downstairs with my positive test stick and said, "I'm pregnant!". For the rest of the family I just told them with baby #1 and for baby #2 I bought a custom shirt that said I'm gonna be a big sister and had her pictures taken. I then sent them to all the family members. The disappointing thing is not many people noticed the shirt in the photo nor did they read the writing on the back of the picture.

When we got pregnant this time we had been trying to conceive for almost 2 years. When I finally got that second line I got hubby a card that said he was going to be a daddy from hallmark and put one of the tests in it. We found out at the end of November, so when we celebrated Christmas' with both sides of the family we put baby stuff at the table. Instead of drinking glasses they had bottles and instead of napkins they had bibs it didn't take everyone to long to realize what was going on. it was really fun. Hope you have fun deciding how to tell your hubby and family.

We found out we were pregnant just before Thanksgiving so we told my uncle that we were pregnant in since he is the one who does the prayer at dinner and at the end of the prayer he said that we are thankful for the new baby. Everyone was surprised which is why we told him to wait until the END of the prayer because there would be some interruptions :)

My husband and I "tried" for 5 years before having our first. When I found out, they gave me an ultrasound right away (I was about 5-6 weeks at the time). I called and asked my husband to go to lunch. While at lunch I told him I took a really great picture and wanted to show him...then handed him the picture from the ultrasound. It took him a minute before he started to cry!

Good luck!

I took a home pregnancy test one morning before work and freaked out when it was positive I figured it would say negative like all the other times. So I made an appointment for later that day and had it retested. I ended up getting home late and pulled in the driveway right before my hubby and he asked why I was just getting home. I could hardly contain myself and wasn't sure how to blurt it out so I handed him my next doctor's appointment card and it hit him instantly and let me tell you he was in shock he kept saying "are you serious" and got all teary eyed because we had been wanting one for while! We were so excited we hurried up and called my parents on the phone and told them (they live a few states away) and then we went to the flower shop and got a small teddy bear and a balloon that said "Grandma" on it and took it to my mothern in laws we no sooner walked in her apartment and she read that balloon and she come flying out of her chair and pushed my husband out of the way to give ME a huge hug. Lets just say she was very happy she had been asking for a grandbaby for a couple of years at that point.

We told my mom on her birthday by giving her a card and present from the child. The card was a "Happy Birthday Grandma" card, and the present was a toy/book called "Grandma's Purse".

On Easter 2007 we (husband, 2 1/2 year old son and I) decorated plastic easter eggs. Then I had secretly ordered custom M&M's printed on pink and blue M&Ms the words It's a Boy and It's a Girl. I put the M&M's in each egg and our son handed out an egg to everyone. It was fun watching some people getting it as they opened the eggs and ate the M&Ms while others just munched away on the candy. I was the onloy one who knew about the M&M's so that was a surprise to my hubby as well. It was fun, memorable and not super expensive.
D.

Right when we decided to have a baby I bought the kids book "Just Me and My Dad." (it's those soft cover Critter books you can buy just about anywhere for like a 1.99)

My husband is an avid reader so I told him I picked up a great book for him. It took him a minute to grasp what I was telling him. It was precious.

For my parents, I bought them something that said grandma and grandnpa on it and wrapped it up. IT too, took my mom a minute.

Hi J.-

How fun for you! I am pregnant with my third and this time, since I found out I was pregnant right around Christmas, I put the positive pregnancy stick in my husband's stocking. With my second pregnancy, I created with fabric paint a onesie that said, "I'm the big brother" on it for my 1 1/2 year old with a drawing of two sibs holding hands. I miscarried twice before my first child was conceived/born and I honestly think I was just so overwhelmed with the news that I just blurted it out through tears when my husband came home! It is such a great moment...enjoy!

I bought a little sweatshirt and some iron on letters and wrote "big sister" on the sweatshirt and put it on our little girl when my husband came home from work one day....then we had her wear the sweatshirt again when we were ready to tell everyone else. you could adapt it for the dog...he/she will in many ways be the older sibling!

With my second pregnancy, I wrote "Hi Dad!" on my belly (upside down...that took practice!) so when I lifted up my shirt, my hubby could see it. That's how I announced it to him...

We told my family by bringing a bottle of NA Champange to a family dinner and doing a toast.

Next time, I hope to do the "bun in the oven" where you put a bun in the oven with a note or something, and have your hubby check the oven before dinner. We'll see if I can pull that one off. :)

Good Luck!

Might be cute to get a shirt or bandana for your dog embroidered with "Big Brother"
Best of luck conceiving :)
M.

For our first child, we made the announcement around Christmas. We had ornaments made that read "Grandma & Grandpa" and let them figure it out from there. =)

My sister-in-law handed out onesies to everyone and gave them fabric paint so they could decorate a onesie for the upcoming arrival.

A few other folks I know sent balloons - either filled to pop out of a box, or deflated, so the recipient had to blow it up to read the message.

When my husband and I told our families we were expecting it was Christmas time and we bought picture frmaes the said I love Grandma... I love Grandpa or if there are already other grandchildren one that says GRANDKIDS. We than wrote Baby Cady due 8/17/06. For my mom who already had another grandchild on the way we used the GRANDKIDS frame and wrote the 1st baby and the due date than our baby and the due date... I was the greatest... everyone got it except my mom, it took her a few minutes. But it was so exciting to watch them open the gift, but hard not to just bust out the news! If you've already had an ultra sound you could use the picure in the frame as well. Congratulations!

You could get your dog an "I'm going to be a big sister/brother" shirt to announce it to Daddy. Then take pics of the dog in the shirt and send it out by email to friends and family.

Before I took a test I kinda new that I was pregnant 2 weeks before. I was using a ovulation kit, and I was temping every morning, and so I kinda knew as my temp did not go down. But I knew that I needed to take a test to confirm it. My hubby knew that I could of been pregnant just because of the way that I was acting, and he said that I was different. When I took the test it came out postive right away. I went to the doctor and got bata tests done, and after I had my first appointment at 8 weeks, I then went home and made out announcments to send out to everyone letting them know that we were pregnant and our due date. Then I sent them out. I sent one that said Grandma and Grampa to my Mom and Dad, and one to my DH's Mom, and they called and were so excited! This was DH's Mom's and my Dad's first Grand child, so they were really excited!

We are going to start TTCing in Aug. and I am looking forward in telling everyone that we are pregnant again. :)

Good luck and I hope that it happends for you really soon, I so know the waiting game....

We invited my parents to our house(they live out of town) and I had bought a bouquet of flowers to sit on the table. On the card I wrote "Congratulations Grandma and Grandpa!" They didn't really know we were even trying. We ate the whole dinner with the boquet sitting on the table, and they didn't even notice until we were clearing off the table. They were very surprised!

well i became pregnant b4 christmas so i just told my mom that i got her a christmas present but she will have to wait 9 months to get it.