Have you spilled the beans on social media?

[hainesherway]

Good morning ladies!  I'm thinking I'm ready to announce my pregnancy on FB tomorrow and have a cute idea on how to do it.  Did you announce on social media?  How did you do it?  How far along were you?

[Deleted]

I announced when I was about 12 weeks I think, with the picture in my sig (the shirt says "Lifting for Two").

[christy082]

I announced at 20 weeks after my anatomy scan. I used this pic:

[krystee]

I announced early (just under 10 weeks), but we had had four ultrasounds to confirm by then.

[kellsbelles]

We are having someone take a picture of us this weekend and we will use that as our FB announcement/Christmas card. In two weeks I will hit the 12 week mark the NT scan will have been done as well. Im still not 100% sure what we will do but I think it will be doctor themed since my husband is a surgeon. It'll be so nice to be FB official. I know my mom and sister have been dying to spill the beans and I'm sure everyones additional support and love will be overwhelming

[lillaguma]

We did a picture of the two of us holding the little dress I made, and just posted it (I'm 20 weeks) saying that we were excited to announce we're expecting a baby girl in April.

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Nov 26, 2014 10:16:45 GMT -5 kellsbelles said:

We are having someone take a picture of us this weekend and we will use that as our FB announcement/Christmas card. In two weeks I will hit the 12 week mark the NT scan will have been done as well. Im still not 100% sure what we will do but I think it will be doctor themed since my husband is a surgeon. It'll be so nice to be FB official. I know my mom and sister have been dying to spill the beans and I'm sure everyones additional support and love will be overwhelming

Eeeeeee I can't wait!!!! <3

[bk1]

I announced around 18 weeks. We had two previous losses before this one so I wanted to wait awhile. I just made a post.

[pooh8402]

Not yet. DH wanted me to yesterday, sort of like a happy birthday thing (yesterday was his birthday) but I didn't want to go FB official at 7 weeks. Most everyone important to me knows. We'll probably do something right before our right after Christmas.

[Monica Geller]

We announced on FB at almost 19 weeks at Halloween. Pumpkins with our initials painted on them and a question mark painted on the smallest one with the caption "Baby "Bing" is due a the end of March"

[genet313]

No, and no plans to before birth.  But I'm a paranoid PGAL/IFer and I'm also not that into Facebook, so I'll probably only post one pic after birth anyway.  DH is the same.  

ETA: Debbie Downer Alert: I should also add that after having gone through IF, I'm more sensitive to pregnancy announcements and being mindful of other people's unknown struggles.  I'm more cautious in sharing my joy, just knowing how tough it can be to log into Facebook and see 8 pregnancy announcements in one day.    Not saying this to try to dissuade OP or any else from sharing, pregnancy is and should be a joyous, happy time, but just sharing what I'm doing personally.

[estrellita]

We did at about 13 weeks. Here is our announcement:

[sarahsas]

I did at 16 weeks. I wasn't going to originally but decided to since I wanted to be able to join mommy groups and ask for advice and try to find child care.

[hainesherway]

Nov 26, 2014 11:31:13 GMT -5 genet313 said:

No, and no plans to before birth.  But I'm a paranoid PGAL/IFer and I'm also not that into Facebook, so I'll probably only post one pic after birth anyway.  DH is the same.  

ETA: Debbie Downer Alert: I should also add that after having gone through IF, I'm more sensitive to pregnancy announcements and being mindful of other people's unknown struggles.  I'm more cautious in sharing my joy, just knowing how tough it can be to log into Facebook and see 8 pregnancy announcements in one day.    Not saying this to try to dissuade OP or any else from sharing, pregnancy is and should be a joyous, happy time, but just sharing what I'm doing personally.

I totally understand.  I went through IF as well.  I think it's a personal choice whether or not to announce on FB.  I for one, will not be one of those pg women that constantly complain/post about their pregnancy.  That bothered me more than the announcements.

[smiledamnit]

Yep, we announced after our NT scan (13ish weeks, I think??) and did so with a picture of Gus (bulldog in my Avatar).

[azurely]

I announced at almost 19 weeks, right after our anatomy scan, with an ultrasound pic that said "It's a boy!" and put "Baby Lastname coming in November" in the caption.

[shortstax]

I was about 20 wks and was interviewed on the news (for something related to my job.) A girlfriend (who already knew I was pg) snapped a pic of her TV when I was on and texted it to me asking if that was the start of my bump.

Well, the pic was good, I had on an awesome outfit, and my hair looked GREAT (lol) so I put that pic on facebook with a "the rumors are true, that is the beginning of a bump."

haha

[catscatscats]

I am also PGAL and went back and forth about announcing. By the time I was pregnant, I had pretty much hidden all of my friends of reproductive age, because I was having a hard time dealing with all of the announcements.

In the end, I decided that though I was worried about upsetting others and terrified that the pregnancy wouldn't stick-- this could be our only child and I wanted to approach it with joy. I posted an ultrasound picture at 15 weeks.

Since then, I've posted a few notes and belly pics. I worry sometimes that it is too much, but we went through so much to get here, and I'm so happy. Sometimes it's nice to share that.

[luv2rn4fun]

We announced after our 12 1/2 week appointment using the following picture:

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[cheeseandcrackers]

We announced at 20 weeks, after one previous loss. I put it together myself in photoshop
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[Monica Geller]

I struggled with the idea of announcing on FB after having gone through IF. Pregnancy announcements were rough for me during that time and I really didn't want to cause someone else pain. However, my husband was the one who told me that we're allowed to be happy and excited about this. And ultimately I decided that he was right. Everyone has to make those decisions for themselves.

ETA: I agree with hainesherway  in that since the announcement, I haven't made one other reference to being pregnant. I'm not a prolific poster anyway, so not that hard to do either.

[pooh8402]

Pregnancy announcements on FB were rough on me too. But I didn't begrudge people their happiness; I just didn't look at FB as often as I did prior to TTC. It was my choice to look at FB, and if I was having a bad day emotionally, I simply stayed away.

I have one of those friends who was a prolific pregnancy poster (multiple posts per day about her nausea and her GD and her belly), she is a mutual friend of me and my H. Both of us agreed that she was very annoying on FB and that I will keep the pregnancy-related posts to a minimum. Good thing I have you guys for an outlet!

[aliciar6]

We did around 15 weeks. I think what was so hard was trying to figure out how to do it. It has been my first and only pregnany related post.

DH took an idea I had an expanded on it. He had a shoe for each of us with our name underneath. For him a mossy oak pattern hunting boot, for me a pink stilleto, and for Hayley a pair of pink camo shoes and her EDD

[starburst604]

I had planned on waiting till we got the genetic testing results back so we could could announce that we were having a baby girl or boy, but I got excited after the NT scan looked good and posted a pic of the ultrasound with an announcement after that appointment.

[Deleted]

DH posted at 12 weeks after NT scan. He has mostly actual friends and family as "friends". I posted when we had the anatomy scan and found the sex. I just posted a cute profile sonogram picture with "it's a boy"

[pinkroses]

I posted something at 19 weeks after our anatomy scan.  I was going to post a few weeks before that but wanted to get my dog to pose for a pic and was too busy to sit down and do it.  So I decided to just wait until we knew the sex so I could announce it all at once.

[rachelgreen]

We announced on fb at 9 weeks. Because we have always been so incredibly open with our infertility struggle, no matter what happened we would share. That's just how we roll in that dept. So many people knew our ER/ET dates anyway so they were all waiting for answers, lol. I had given a warning to my other IF groups/friends ahead of time so that they could hide me if they wanted. I know how hard it is to see all of that on fb on any given day. I do feel bad that most of what I post now is baby related but since I've been friends with many of my IF girls for years and years, I know they forgive me.

For our announcement, this is what we did **poof**

[centralsquare]

20 weeks, posted a photo of our dog with the caption "Our family is growing! Le bébé, March 2015"

[nextbigthing]

I announced at about 14 weeks once we had a good NT scan and knew it was a boy. I didn't do anything creative, just used Labor Day as an excuse.

[feistypants]

We announced at 10 weeks. I had epic morning sickness, so I felt the need to tell sooner rather than later.

This was our announcement (pdq, I'll delete later):
*poof*