s/o When & how to tell

[azurely]

Did anyone do (or are you planning to do) a FB announcement that they are pregnant?

I can't decide. I didn't want to do one, because I am very anti-AW, and really the people who need to know will already know from us, but I'm wavering as we get closer to telling the world.

So, what did you do or what are your plans?

[ecinereb]

We never did a FB announcement, mostly because I hated seeing them while we were trying and I have lots of 3T friends on FB.

We did however send a photo announcement to our families (aunts, uncles, cousins etc) and we just told our friends in person as we saw them.

[azurely]

May 6, 2014 11:59:23 GMT -5 ecinereb said:

We never did a FB announcement, mostly because I hated seeing them while we were trying and I have lots of 3T friends on FB.

I don't think I have too many friends who are having TTTC, but I know of a couple and that was my thought too.

Kind of the same reasoning for not having a ticker on here. I still post on the TTTC board and want to be sensitive to that.

I wasn't at all tempted to do one until I found a cute idea and wanted to use it. It's not that important to me though, and I'm sure my H will think it's corny anyway...

[bluelikejazz]

I don't want to do a FB announcement, but we're going to a wedding in June and we agreed we didn't want to take away the attention by showing up and no one knowing. So we'll likely post something on FB after our 12 week appt next week.

I'm telling family/friends as I see them.

[rachelgreen]

It's a fine line for me with tickers on here. After talking off board with some of our regs, they know how long I've been waiting to have that ticker so they were all for it. But since we have so many posters TTC #2, it also could be said for having kid pics in the sigs, kwim? I think as long as we're still giving support it is fine. We've had numerous threads about it too and the majority all seemed to be ok with it.

As for FB, because I've always been very open and vocal about our IF, we will do an announcement. I have a feeling it will be along the lines of something I saw on pinterest with writing on baseballs/softballs. Since DH and I met in college playing ball, it's very fitting. Usually when one of my IF/IFV girls gets pg, and they are going to come out on FB, we give a warning on our private groups to let people hide us if they need to We're all rational like that, LOL.

[linz]

I will do a FB announcement after our NT scan. I always planned too. Most of our close friends will know but I have family in other states that we don't talk to regularly so they pry won't find out until I post. At first I was going to post something about struggling for 2 years but I don't think I will anymore.

My idea is to write on 2 onesies that say something like "Coming Soon" "Nov 2014" and then have an ultrasound pic on each one. I was going to make the captain of the post "Sometimes miracles come in pairs". I've been searching for ideas on pinterest and wanted something cute, but yet our own take on it so I'm kind of taking ideas from a few things I saw. Just want it simple and sweet.  Since we aren't announcing until this weekend there will still be some of our friends that pry won't know until I post and honestly I'm fine with that. The important ones will already know.

And we aren't finding out genders but I know some people that wait until the gender scan to announce.

[linz]

And I know I was sensitive to the fb posts when I was TTC but it was more people who posted 24/7 about being pregnant, not so much the announcement that got me. I don't post a daily status on fb as it is so I know I won't have a ton of stuff on there.

[azurely]

May 6, 2014 13:16:52 GMT -5 rachelgreen said:

It's a fine line for me with tickers on here. After talking off board with some of our regs, they know how long I've been waiting to have that ticker so they were all for it. But since we have so many posters TTC #2, it also could be said for having kid pics in the sigs, kwim? I think as long as we're still giving support it is fine. We've had numerous threads about it too and the majority all seemed to be ok with it.

I didn't even realize you had a ticker, but I'm usually on the app. I don't care either way, especially now, I just remember the post a few months ago about tickers on that board and thought a few girls said they didn't like seeing them.

Those are really cute ideas linz! My idea is super corny, but a friend of a friend posted a picture of her H holding two bags of ice and her pointing to her belly (Ice Ice Baby), so I was going to do something like that with a different song. Super corny, I know.

[FastHands]

We did. I have a pretty big extended family. I love them, but we're not talk-on-the-phone close in most cases, and as excited as I was, I really didn't feel like making 16 phone calls. lol. All of them are on FB, though, so it was just easier. DH doesn't have a big family, but he is definitely a FB AW, so it worked for him too. lol

I wanted to do something with our dogs, like have them sitting on the couch with books about pregnancy or being a big sibling or something, but I wwas just too tired to go through the ridiculousness that would've required. So I just stole a kinda lame one from online with the picture of us dating with "first comes love," then a wedding pic and "then comes marriage," and then a pic of the u/s photoshopped into a pic of a carriage, lol, with something like "baby carriage arriving September 2014." Not super creative, but whatevah.

[anna7602]

We did not announce on FB. I have a ton of friends spread out all over the place and it has been fun to tell them at different times as I see them or talk to them on the phone. I also don't like the "did she/he see my announcement or not  on FB?" guessing game, but with a birth announcement, I figure if someone misses the "baby is here" post, they'll figure it out at some point when I keep posting pictures of my new child. 

[mae141]

I did not do a facebook announcement. I don't post much on facebook anyway, and I loved seeing people's faces when they saw my big belly. I was outed on facebook around 34 weeks though when my friends posted group shots from my shower.

[andthentherewere10]

I told on FB with a photo. I do post on FB so it would have been weird to all of the sudden show up with a baby or neglect to mention that I'm pregnant when I'm FB friends with so many people I see regularly IRL.



(you wouldn't know this unless you were my FB friend but the white horse is a tiny, precious minature horse)

[MrsAggie]

andthentherewere10 That's so cute! I like the different shoe pics and was planning on doing boots as well.

I attached some inspiration pics from Pinterest and the boots that I ordered from etsy.

I have friends that have moved all over and I keep in touch through Facebook. I will tell most family in person and my bffs already know. I won't be blowing up my Facebook with pregnancy stuff though.

[kershnic]

I did a fb announcement on new year's day about looking forward to the year ahead. I was about 24weeks pregnant. I thought about the tttc angle, but figured I was not willing to keep my babies off fb and a yay baby was born post is just as painful as yay I'm pregnant. I don't want to hurt others, but like Rachel said, I waited and dreamed a lloonngg about these baby things. I have not been a fb aw about pregnancy so iI hope iI hhaven't seriously hurt anyone.

[speyedr]

We did a FB announcement around 10 weeks, after we had had a good u/s. The only other pregnancy related posts I made were when we found out the sex and then towards the end when we had the nursery finished. I never had a a picture of me pregnant enough that you could tell. 

This was ours:
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[statlerwaldorf]

We announced on Facebook after the nt scan. I figured it would be weird not to since we plan on sharing baby photos after he is born. I mostly use Facebook for sharing pictures with my out of town family.