https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:24:47 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410925 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:16:25 +0000 Alivoo01 2410925@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ditto on the Christmas list. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410823 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:27:21 +0000 daniellemybelle 2410823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours was a combination Christmas card &amp; birth announcement. We sent about 100. If I had a baby not during Christmas time, I think I would send to the same list.</p> <p>For our Christmas cards, I have always chosen a picture we haven't posted on Facebook to kind of make it "special." I would do that for a birth announcement. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410817 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:21:56 +0000 Adira 2410817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What others said: same as our Christmas Card list (minus some friends who wouldn't care). So that was parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles, cousins, and a few close friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410789 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:03:03 +0000 Truth Bombs 2410789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had late Nov babies so both times our herb announcement was also our Christmas card so it went to our whole card list (around 70 people). I think we would have sent it to the same list even if it was a separate card at a different time of year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410783 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 02:55:46 +0000 birdofafeather 2410783@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sent them out to our Christmas card list which includes all aunts and uncles, cousins and friends. We send out about 75-100 Christmas cards! This year, it was a joint announcement/Christmas card and we sent out 125 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410773 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:38:31 +0000 lamariniere 2410773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our situation was similar with far flung family (3 continents). We sent announcements to all extended family members aunts/uncles/grandparents but not cousins (most of whom are online). We also sent to a few family friends, in addition to a select group of our own friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410636 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:44:54 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2410636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did not send an announcement out (although I did post something to Facebook). But I think if you were going to send them to some aunts and uncles, you should send them to all aunts and uncles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410605 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:13:20 +0000 MOMTOLITTLEB 2410605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We also sent to basically the same as our Christmas card list which is all extended family and friends. And @Foodnerd81: I also knew everyone wanted to see my beautiful child! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410569 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:28:57 +0000 youboots 2410569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ditto on Christmas card list. A friend sent an email to a few close family &amp; friends to let them know she had arrived. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410565 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:27:05 +0000 HabesBabe 2410565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did the same as our Christmas card list. We're not on FB, so we didn't send anything electronically. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410545 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:09:14 +0000 PawPrints 2410545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Skipped them, just did email/FB. Pretty much all our relatives are on FB though. If I had done them I would have just sent them to VIP relatives. Our Christmas card sort of wound up de facto doubling as a birth announcement since LO was all over it obviously for the first time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410543 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:06:34 +0000 Foodnerd81 2410543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ummm I was that first time mom who assumed everyone wanted to see my beautiful new child. I think we sent 70-80? We've narrowed down to people who I think will care but will prob send 50-60 for the new baby. Same as our Christmas card list. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410541 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:03:44 +0000 californiadreams 2410541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i sent pics via email to family and close friend firsts, then put some up on facebook. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410540 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:03:10 +0000 Raindrop 2410540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe I'm picky but I only sent it to friends and family that we thought would care. I have a very large family I know not all of them would care about having a birth announcement because they would hear it through the family grape vine. We sent it to friends that we really like that our age. I should note that I'm not a big facebook user ... meaning pretty much not at all. We sent out about 50 or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410529 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:52:05 +0000 SweetCaroline 2410529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sent to all our aunts and uncles (many...like you!), but only to my cousins and not to DH's. I'm much closer to mine than he is to his and we had to draw the line somewhere. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/birth-announcements-who-to-send-to#post-2410510 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:41:09 +0000 DesertDreams88 2410510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This may not be the right board, but whatever. :)</p> <p>First off, my husband and I are long distance from our entire families, and both of our families are pretty large.</p> <p>We are planning on doing birth announcements mainly for my husband's extended family, none of whom are on Facebook or even really online (no email). Then I figured we should also do my few extended family members that aren't online... which then spiraled into ALL of the extended family members in the generation above me (aunts and uncles) because I didn't want some people to get them and some people not and therefore cause some kind of offense. In total, between his and my extended family (of the older, not-online generation) it's about 50 birth announcements.</p> <p>However I want to draw the line at including extended family members of my generation, mainly my cousins. I have over 30 cousins and I really don't think that any of them care about getting a little postcard with baby pictures to put up on their fridge. Between the cost of the announcements, the postage, the organizing, and the paper usage..... it's just.... eh.</p> <p>What do you think? What did you decide? </p>