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I called my mom both times the mornings I tested.

#1: For D's family we announced at Christmas. I found this poem "from baby", printed it up on nice paper, framed it and put it under the tree as part of our Yankee swap gift exchange. I had hoped to be able to do this with an ultrasound photo, but I didn't get one until a few days later. My MIL ended up opening it, which was perfect (and she still has it up in their den). I called my dad and stepmom after my first ultrasound.

#2: We told my ILs on Mother's Day. We got her a card, and wrote something along the lines of "To the best Nana of *6* grandchildren" (E is #5 ) and then when she was reading it E ran in wearing a Big Brother shirt. I took a picture of him wearing it to text to D's other siblings. I called my dad right before we announced on FB after we found out the gender.

For first pregnancy ended too soon for us to announce. For our second, we gave our parents grandparent books but, sadly, that also ended in loss. For our third pregnancy, we showed both sets a slide show of me swimming with dolphins and the last slide was an ultrasound picture of my son.

We gave my mom a giant box with a Christmas ornament in it along with a note that said "will you save ornaments for me? Love, the baby"

My grandma saved each of her grandchildren ornaments each year so when we went out on our own we had something to decorate our first place with.

With my first (m/c), I printed out the due date and put it in a grandparents frame.

For LO1, I just blurted it out over the phone because I was supposed to be coming over for dinner, but I was stuck in the ER with cramping being completely paranoid (due to previous m/c).

For LO2, we had just finished decorating my parents' Christmas tree and I asked them to stand in front of it so I could get a picture. I videoed it while saying "say LO's gonna be a big brother!"

For the first, we told my dad who happened to be visiting, who then called my mom and called her grandma, which confused her. We didn't tell dh's parents until we miscarried at 6.5 weeks.

For the second, it was just phone calls to my parents at 7 weeks, after seeing the heartbeat. For dh's parents, we waited until 12 weeks bc we would be seeing them in person. We said, "Well, the bad news is, we won't be seeing you again until most likely January or February. But, the good news is, when you see us then, you can meet your new grandchild."

Both sets of parents are long distance.

We just called our moms sometime after BPF. I called my dad after hearing the heartbeat. My FIL overheard me to talking to my husband about the pregnancy loudly on the phone and he found out indirectly after the BFP. Boring!

With DS, we just did the picture route. Went to dinner with family and said everyone say "alivoo01 is pregnant!", but we did it via video instead.

With DD, we put DS into a future big brother shirt and waited for them to realize it. It didn't take long!

I was picking up some home good stuff for my mom so in the bag I put a chalkboard menu sign with a poem that said "be ready to extend your hive, come February you'll be grandma to five" with bees on it.

Gave my mom her mother's day gift which was an apple tied to a string the led to a note card saying "this is the current size of your future grandchild. Fully grown on 10/31/15". Took a few seconds for it to sink it and then she said "really" in this awestruck voice. Was so fun!

We just... told them over dinner!

With DD we gave my parents Grandma and Grandpa Willow Trees. We just called his parents. This time, with DS we put DD in a Big Sister shirt and took her to my parents and waited until someone noticed. We Skyped his parents with her in the shirt.