https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:13:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-119392 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:03:12 +0000 Mrs. Pen 119392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told our immediate family after I had my confirmation doctors appt.<br /> It was July 4th weekend, which was perfect since my Brother/SIL were in town as well as my gma/gpa. </p> <p>When we got to my parents house I discreetly put a hot dog bun in the oven... then I went to my dad and said, "I think something's burning in the oven, will you check it out?"<br /> He opened the oven door, and I shouted, "There's a bun in the oven!"<br /> Funny thing was, he didn't get it hahaha! My mom did though and she was shocked. It was sooo freakin' funny. Everyone got a kick out of it. And we all laugh about it still. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-119348 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:40:15 +0000 joyjoy 119348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@petuniasandpearls: Oh fun! A video would have been a great idea since you can see how long it takes for people to process the information. We have a bunch of pictures where everyone is just smiling until you slowly start seeing the surprised faces. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-119190 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:00:03 +0000 LuLu Mom 119190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told the people who we would be comfortable with telling if something bad happened. One of my best friends was at my house when we got the BFP beacuse we were going to visit our other best friend for the weekend. I told my other BF when I got to her house since I was still in shock. We kept it quiet until after the blood test came positive, and then we told our parents in person. </p> <p>Just a warning, those who you trust to keep a secret don't always keep a secret. My best friend told her mom (even though I asked her not too), who then told her best friend who happened to be my BIL's mother. He knew before we announced it to my siblings, since we wanted to do it in person. I was very upset at her! It all worked out, but sometimes peopel can't keep it a secret, be sure not to tell a friend who has a big mouth! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-119182 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:51:20 +0000 CarrieLouWho 119182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told our parents and my brother at 6 weeks... figured if we miscarried, we would want them to know. I had to tell a few close friends at 8 weeks b/c we go to a wine expo every year and I couldn't drink and there was no way to hide it... if that hadn't of come up, we would not have told friends that early.<br /> I told my boss around 10 weeks, mostly b/c I was worried about my doctors appointments. Told the rest of the office at 12 weeks and went public on FB at 14 weeks.</p> <p>For our parents, we took a picture where hubs held a sign that said "WE ARE" and I held a Prego sauce can. We put that in a 3 frame picture w/ and U/S and a pic of our dog with writing at the bottom that said - I'm going to be a big brother.<br /> For FB - I posted the I Love Lucy Sketch where she tells Ricky she's pregnant.<br /> I like that we did it in phases... helps with the anxiety of keeping such a big secret and being so excited! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-119060 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:30:09 +0000 kml636 119060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First time, I told a few people right away (friends and MIL). We began telling more people after we heard the heartbeat and still more people at 12 weeks - only to find out the baby had died at my appt at 12 1/2 weeks. I stupidly just did not think it would happen to me, I guess. </p> <p>This time I really am not telling anyone until we get past that second appt at 12 weeks. Two friends have guessed and I've confirmed it but it's so hard not to tell! First appt is today and I'm freaking out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-119053 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:27:16 +0000 purrpletulips 119053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We waited until at least 12 weeks (I think it was a little after) for both the pregnancies. With our DD we told my parents when they came for a visit, my FIL got a phone call since he doesn't visit often. With my current pregnancy we made a video of my DD wearing an "I'm a big sister" t-shirt; she was sitting in my husband's office chair and while he was videoing, I spun the chair around so you could read her shirt. My parents and other friends/family (plus my supervisors) got the video while my FIL got another phone call since he doesn't use computers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-118966 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:48:07 +0000 yoursilverlining 118966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told our parents right away (same day we got BFP). We called the in-laws because they live out of town, and told my parents in person. I basically just blurted out “well…..you’re going to be grandparents this summer!” Doing cute type announcements really isn’t my style.</p> <p>We asked the parents not to tell anyone, which was somewhat successful (MIL told everyone right away lol), and we told close friends within 1st trimester. We made it public on FB after the NT scan and we got the genetic testing results. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-118960 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:42:47 +0000 mrsjyw 118960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told our families a week after we found out (at around 6 weeks)... I made t-shirts for the grandparents, gave them to ILs at dinner... and then made my parents open them as part of my dad's 60th birthday gift in front of his siblings. :)</p> <p>Told our closest friends over a dinner date the week after that.</p> <p>Not planning on announcing/going public until May (2nd trimester) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117526 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:22:23 +0000 petuniasandpearls 117526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@joyjoy: We did the same thing on Sunday, but we had the camera on "video" instead of taking a photo. The video is pretty amusing because everyone just stood there for about 5 seconds and didn't do anything and finally my sister was like "seriously?"....haha. It's pretty amusing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117508 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:14:16 +0000 joyjoy 117508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told our parents and siblings in person after we heard the heartbeat. They were the first to know. Everyone else of importance we told near the end of the first trimester. </p> <p>For my (extended) family we did a photo. On Super Bowl Sunday we were all gathered for lunch and DH had us come together for a group shot. Before he took the shot he said, "One, two, three say, 'Joy's pregnant!!'" We got some pretty fun surprised face photos of everyone. :-)</p> <p>DH's family and my dad's side gather together less often, so they found out through email/phone calls. </p> <p>To my close friends and cousins that are out of town, I sent valentines that said, "Will you be my auntie/uncle?" or "Now accepting applications for babysitters!"</p> <p>We also ended up doing a fun April Fools photo strip announcement on facebook thinking it would be funny, but no one believed it was a joke! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117466 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:55:59 +0000 singingbee 117466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told right away, but miscarried at 20 weeks. No one really thought that would happen. Next time, we will still tell family right away, but may not do a public announcement with anyone else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117450 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:47:59 +0000 mediagirl 117450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We waited until 12 weeks and told my parents with a stork with my due date on it. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117390 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:58:14 +0000 heffalump 117390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had went to dinner with our parents and siblings that live here and told them. And then we called our OOT siblings. We waited to announce it to everyone else for the reason that you said, and I'm glad about that because I did end up miscarrying the first time. I didn't want to talk about it to anyone, and it would have been extra hard to have to tell more people, or even just know that they knew because somebody else told them. I waited until I was ready to talk and then told my close friends. The next time I got pregnant we waited again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117383 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:40:34 +0000 mrs. wagon 117383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We called our parents, but I told my 3 best girlfriends by buying them "I love my auntie" bibs and having them all unwrap them at the same time (one of them is across the country). We told them at 8 or 10 weeks, and we announced to everyone thru facebook once we hit 12 weeks.</p> <p>This time around we called our parents again, but this time I told my best friends by just showing them the positive pregnancy test. I think I threw it onto the table. Haha. We told them really early on (the day after I got my BFP) and we announced via facebook much later, around 18 weeks, because I'm still hiding my pregnancy from the higher ups at work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117376 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:35:36 +0000 Boogs 117376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We gifted "I love _______" bibs to our parents and grandparents. Then, they kind of spread the word to the rest of the family after the first trimester. With them, they would have seen how sick I was getting, so we told them around the 7 week mark. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117373 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:33:14 +0000 cupcakemama 117373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We told our immediate family after I had the Drs confirmation. We just rang them up. I'm not into the 'cute' announcements. We told a few very close friends at about 7 weeks but didn't go public until after the first trimester. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117369 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:31:43 +0000 Mrsbells 117369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I told my mom at 11 weeks and told my MIL at 13 weeks. I didnt really announce it to anyone else they just kinda realized I was pregnant on their own </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117368 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:31:42 +0000 banana 117368@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't tell our families until we heard a heart beat, which was at around 8 or 9 weeks I think. We told friends at 12 weeks and then everyone else shortly thereafter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117363 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:30:09 +0000 chopsuey 117363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I called my mom and sister and told them over the phone as soon as we found out.<br /> DH called and told his family members too. We didn't do anything special to announce the pregnancy or gender :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-announce#post-117362 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:29:24 +0000 Minnie_Girl 117362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only found out I was pregnant last week. How did you announce it to family and friends? Were there certain people you told first?</p> <p>I hear that a lot of women wait for the end of the first trimester because the risk of miscarriage drops. Some days I feel like I could wait that long, other days...not so much! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-16618 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:28:55 +0000 cyneswith 16618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I fully intend to call the moms, send them an e-mail with the positive HPT, and ask them to check their e-mail. :) They are halfway across the country or on the opposite coast, so options are limited. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-16613 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:23:52 +0000 musicbox611 16613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ Pipers Mommy- I literally just spit my coffee all over my keyboard! LOFL at your father in law. That's hilarious! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-14199 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:13:58 +0000 HabesBabe 14199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bought onesies and bibs that said, "I love Grandpa/ Grandma gives the best hugs/ Grandpa digs me" and gave them to our parents along w/ a frame that said "I love Grandma and Grandpa" with a picture of the HPTs in it.</p> <p>My mom opened the frame first and has bad eyes, so she was trying to read the frame and figure out the picture, so I just made her open the onesie. She finally got it :)</p> <p>Hubs' dad tried to read the frame and got confused, and hubs' mom opened the onsies and immediately started to cry.</p> <p>My dad opened the onsie, smiled (and probably thought to himself, "WTF did she get me a tiny shirt?"). 5 seconds later, he READ the shirt and said, "REALLY?!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-14097 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:43:07 +0000 Pipers Mommy 14097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had copies of the ultrasound pics made and framed. We gifted my husband's parents on Xmas Eve last year and my parents/sister on Xmas morning it was perfect for us. It was so hard to keep quiet for 9 weeks! </p> <p>The best response we got was from my father in law who'd never really seen a U/S pic- he thought it was a picture of a hurricane! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-14083 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:28:14 +0000 eeh 14083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad is a carpenter and will be making the baby furniture. So, I've been saving pictures of things I like and will ask my dad to sit down and look at some things I'd like him to build me for Christmas, birthday, in general, whatever. I'll throw some dining room tables or china cabinets in there and then click through to the baby furniture. He should get it immediately. </p> <p>For my husband's parents I'm not sure yet. If we give them gifts they'll know immediately so I think we'll do it when his sister is around. Her name is Bethany and we always watch National Lampoon Christmas Vacation and crack Aunt Bethany jokes. I think we'll go with something related to that but don't have any ideas yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-14064 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:09:22 +0000 Mrs. D 14064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wanted to do something cute like give the smokers two cigars, one with a pink ribbon, and one with a blue ribbon, and a card that said something about smoking only one in February.<br /> But although we wanted to wait, DH couldn't contain his excitement and we told my mom right away, and called his folks that night and he called his dad Grampie on the phone. Nothing spectacular, but he was just too excited to keep it secret even until I saw the doctor to confirm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-break-the-news-to-family#post-14057 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:01:58 +0000 MamaLove 14057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Great ideas everyone!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-did-you-announce-the-news-to-your-family#post-12994 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:50:08 +0000 cyneswith 12994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll tell our moms right away (if I miscarry, we'll need their support), but otherwise, we'll wait for a heartbeat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-did-you-announce-the-news-to-your-family#post-12990 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:44:44 +0000 Mrs. D 12990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I completely wanted to wait until 12 weeks, and that's exactly what we planned... but he couldn't contain himself when we went to my moms that night for my sisters birthday, and we ended up telling her then. So of course we called his parents when we got home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-did-you-announce-the-news-to-your-family#post-12984 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:29:45 +0000 KT326 12984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I didn't vote because I fall into a few different categories. I told my mom right away, pretty much as soon as I peed on the stick because I was so shocked our IUI may have worked and hubby wasn't home. Then we told his dad and sister when I was just over 5 weeks, after it had been confirmed by the RE via blood test. We were going to Vegas for a friends wedding when I was only 6 weeks and it was so much easier to tell our friends than try to hide it, especially since they all knew were were going through fertility treatments anyway. Even though we told all these people we made sure that they wouldn't spread the news, that was something we wanted to do. Plus if something happened we would have wanted their support anyway. </p>