Hellobee Boards

Husband/SO?: "I'm pregnant!" I just blurted it out.

Family?: The first time, I gave our parents a wrapped picture frame with the u/s pic. We told them the gender on the phone later. For the second, we just had them over with Xander wearing a "Big Brother" t-shirt.

Friends?: My best friend, I just told when I saw her that I was pregnant and I e-mailed other friends.

Husband/SO?: I had LO take the test out to him, he was in kitchen getting table set for dinner, he didn't know I was testing. He was shocked!

Family:? We told both of our parents the weekend we found out. We told our siblings later with a video of LO announcing there was a baby in mommy's tummy.

Friends?: My closest friends knew I was trying, so they figured it out right away. Everyone else found out around 12 weeks.

Husband/SO?: I suspected I was pregnant when we were on vacation (DH knew), so the first thing I did when I got home was take another test & then just ran downstairs and showed the to DH!

Family:? I think we told my parents 1-2 weeks after when we visited them for dinner. Just kinda said it at the dinner table. With his parents I believe we waited till we saw a heartbeat. I think DH called his mom and we text his siblings.

Friends?: I just outright told my bff. After it was whoever asked, and then eventually made it FB official.

DH: He was in the other bathroom when I tested at like 5am, and when he came back to bed I was sitting waiting for him, and just blurted it out. We had been trying for over a year, had recently had a miscarriage, and I was too freaked out that I was actually pregnant again (I was sure we were out that month) to plan anything cute, and I didn't want to wait to tell him.

My mom: I called that day because I was so scared I was going to miscarry again. She apparently already knew

My ILS: We told all of D's family on Christmas night. We were doing a Yankee Swap, and I had framed and wrapped a poem announcing the pregnancy and put it in the pile. My MIL ended up opening it and trying (and failing) to read it aloud (she started crying, and my SIL had to finish it ). I was 7wks.

My family: I called my side of the family after our first ultrasound at 8wks.

Friends: We called friends who would be hurt to read it on FB over the next few weeks.

Everyone else: I posted a picture of my 12wk ultrasound with the caption "(DH) is going to have a baby, and I'm pretty sure it's mine" and D posted something along the lines of "My wife has a parasite growing inside of her, but doctors predict it will exit the body naturally sometime in August" along with a screen shot from one of the Aliens movies (when the thing comes out of the guy's chest).

We were Team Green, so everyone found out the gender after he was born.

Husband/SO?: I bought a onesie from his alma mater and woke him up to give it to him. It took him a little bit to understand!

Family:? We pretended we were taking a picture, but we were actually taking a video. Instead of saying cheese, we had everyone say "Mrs. J is pregnant!" The looks and screaming were priceless because it didn't sink in at first and we had to say, "no, really!!"

Friends?: Close friends we just told, others left to FB. (we were team green, so no reveal)

This was our announcemen (ETA the baby shoes were mine as a baby!)

Husband/SO?: We were trying, so I was testing early, and I said, "I think we're doing this" and handed him a test with the world's faintest blue line. He started to believe me 3 days later when I took another test

Family:? Tried to plan a brunch with DH's family after the first U/S to show them pictures of the little bean, but we couldn't get the scheduling to work, so we told them the reason we couldn't meet that early was because we had an ultrasound appointment. MIL & BIL caught on immediately...it took FIL a little longer! Then for my parents and sister, we just told them they were going to be busy in February!

Friends?: It was a little different for everyone, but we told our close friends in person/on the phone/via Facetime. Most of time we tried to just casually drop it in conversation. ("Oh, the new season of House of Cards will be out in February? You can watch it while you're on maternity leave!") It was a fun way to see people's reaction!

* Also, did you announce pregnancy first and then sex later or both at the same time with family and friends? We didn't say anything about the pregnancy on facebook until we knew the sex, and then all I did was change my profile picture to include "It's a Boy". People figured it out pretty quickly!

Husband/SO?: I waited a while and then told him.

Family:? SIL found out right after I told DH. MIL found out a few weeks later. I told my mom and family at about 15 weeks over the phone since she lives 8 hours away.

Friends?: My bff and her husband had just come back from 3 weeks in Asia when I was 13 weeks and we told them that night after we were returning keys, etc from cat-sitting. I told my four other closest friends at dinner that weekend and I still can't believe all of them cried.