Hellobee Boards

Nothing elaborate, but something fun to share with or immediate family all at once and so we have photo/video to share with LO one day.

We did something when we told my parents and sister. Then I did something else when I told my grandma and the rest of the family was there.

I did sort of a reveal for my parents. Wrapped up a kid's book for my dad for his birthday with a post-it saying he'd need it come spring. He totally didn't get it (while my mom started crying and then he got all freaked out) lol. All the rest of our family friends we just called and were like "soooooooooooo I'm pregnant." Although it seemed rude to me to just jump right into that so I'd call and we'd chat for a bit like normal and I'd wait for a lag before I whipped that out. Then most of them were like OMG YOU LEAD WITH THAT.

Also did a fb reveal for the random ppl we weren't close enough to to have told earlier. Not a big thing, just a pic of our dog. I debated doing anything but I wanted to be able to talk about it casually occasionally and it seemed weird to not make any sort of announcement about it first.

We didn't do anything special when we told our parents...we were mainly in shock. I posted a picture on Facebook and tagged my husband when we were ready to tell the world.

Nope, we called and told the people closest to us, and I sent an email to my extended family. Facebook people only found out when we posted her birth announcement

Not this time. I've kept it very low key. Facebook didn't find out until the 20 week ultrasound, and even since then I've been very quiet about it, not even mentioning the exact date he's scheduled to come.

I hope to do something cute for our parents when we get pregnant because they will be soooo over the moon and I think it will be fun. Other family and close friends we will just call or text, or let it spread through word of mouth.

ETA I'm not on Facebook so there won't be an announcement there, but I will likely post a picture or two on Instagram somewhere along the way

With my first pregnancy, we found out just before Mother's Day so we sent cards to all the grandmothers (both of our parents are divorced and remarried, so with stepmoms that's 4) that said "Happy Mother's Day Grandma!" It was SO hard to wait for them to arrive in the mail! But on FB I just posted a "hooray I'm pregnant" with one of those pregnancy tickers.

The second we just called family, and I didn't even mention on FB till after we'd lost it because it never got past 5 weeks. (I chose to be really open about my losses and blogged about them and stuff.)

The most recent we actually lived in the same city as family, so I told my mom in person on Christmas morning. DH also told his dad and stepmom that day, since we were going to WV with them and I didn't want them asking why I wasn't drinking or anything. We called the rest of the parents after we got home from WV, and posted on fb shortly after with this picture. Hopefully when we have a second, we'll be able to do something cute as a 'big brother/sister" thing. I would have liked to have done that with the dogs, but DH wasn't big on it and they're really hard to get to sit still at the same time for a picture.

We told D's family at Christmas, and wanted to do something a little bit special. I found a poem from "baby", printed it on nice paper, framed and wrapped it and put it under the tree for our Yankee Swap. MIL ended up being the one to open it, started to read it to herself, then aloud, then when she realized exactly what it was she burst into tears, thrust it at my SIL to read, and lunged at me (to hug me!)

I called anyone else that might be annoyed/offended to find out on FB, which is where we made a general announcement.

@Mrs.Someone: I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that. I was somewhat in the same boat.

I had 2 miscarriages before we had LO, so I just quietly told my parents and siblings and DH quietly told his parents and brother. We made the mistake of making a big announcement when I found out I was pregnant with the first miscarriage, so we didn't want to make a big deal about LO in case the pregnancy ended unexpectedly again.

Once we made it to 20 weeks with LO, I posted a picture of a sleeper on our wash line on FB with a note that it would be filled sometime in late September.

We announced at 13 weeks at DH's 25th bday party. It worked out perfectly that they lined up. It was our first pregnancy and not something we talked about with family, so we wanted to surprise them.

No. We called texted friends and family and then put it on Facebook after the 20 week scan. This time we called/texted again, but that's pretty much all we're doing. Word of mouth works for me.

First time, we had shirts made up for our dogs that said "big brother/sister." This time, I just texted my mom as the pee was drying.. but it was a very stressful TTC journey and I shared my struggle with her and I wanted to celebrate my joy, right away.