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April Diamonds!! [2016 Rainbows]

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Has everyone not announced on fb? I think I'm announcing with pictures of baby once she's here. The last two times I announced I lost baby shortly after. The first time I announced right away aND lost baby at 8 weeks and the last time waited until the magical 12 weeks and lost baby at 14 weeks. I think I'm more scared then anything.
 
I always announce somewhere between the 8-10 mark, but thats just my personal belief on trying not to let fear over take me and not have my baby be a "secret" so to speak, but again, that's just me.

I believe some here have and others haven't, but I can't place names at the moment haha
 
mommy - I don't think its unreasonable for you to not want to share your news until you are holding a baby in your arms. Announcing and then "taking it back" is the worst thing in the world. I don't blame you one bit. Those close to you will already know the baby is on the way; FB and other forums are mostly to keep in touch with distant friends/relatives that you don't talk to in real life, for the most part, imo.
Last year I put a baby announcement on my Christmas card and mailed it to 70 people, and gave it out at work to 25 coworkers. Then I found out 2 days before Christmas that I had lost the baby. It was gut-wrenching having to tell people that I had miscarried.
This year, even though I am 20 weeks and just ordered my cards, I did not mention baby on the cards at all. Last year is still too traumatic and I do not want a repeat of that. I have to believe that everything will end up OK with this baby, but I still cant put it on the cards...
 
I don't do Facebook announcements, I'm not really on FB much to begin with. I think it's perfectly fine and understandable you'd wanna announce after the birth x
 
NavyLadybug said:
I always announce somewhere between the 8-10 mark, but thats just my personal belief on trying not to let fear over take me and not have my baby be a "secret" so to speak, but again, that's just me.

I believe some here have and others haven't, but I can't place names at the moment haha
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I felt that way after the first one. I thought I would wait until at least 12 weeks then tell everyone. Because I didn't want to not celebrate my baby. Then I lost him. So it really isnt me trying to "hide" her or not celebrate her. I think its more of a strange superstition at this point. Like even though Im 19 weeks if I announce on FB something might happen. Maybe after my scan next Friday. Maybe not lol

KozmikKitten said:
mommy - I don't think its unreasonable for you to not want to share your news until you are holding a baby in your arms. Announcing and then "taking it back" is the worst thing in the world. I don't blame you one bit. Those close to you will already know the baby is on the way; FB and other forums are mostly to keep in touch with distant friends/relatives that you don't talk to in real life, for the most part, imo.
Last year I put a baby announcement on my Christmas card and mailed it to 70 people, and gave it out at work to 25 coworkers. Then I found out 2 days before Christmas that I had lost the baby. It was gut-wrenching having to tell people that I had miscarried.
This year, even though I am 20 weeks and just ordered my cards, I did not mention baby on the cards at all. Last year is still too traumatic and I do not want a repeat of that. I have to believe that everything will end up OK with this baby, but I still cant put it on the cards...
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Im sorry! That must have been so hard! That is exactly what happened every time I announced on FB. Within a week I would have an appointment and find out that I had lost my baby. It's so hard to have all the congrats and then have to only days later hear all the Im sorrys. The second time I MC I almost resented hearing sorry.

babyjan said:
I don't do Facebook announcements, I'm not really on FB much to begin with. I think it's perfectly fine and understandable you'd wanna announce after the birth x
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LOL Im a blogger. My life is social media lol It's hard for me to NOT be on fb or twitter or any number of other things :haha:
 
I announced on facebook at around 11 weeks because I wanted to let friends and family know that I don't ever see.
 
i announced at 12+3 after a good 12 week scan and after getting good results from the maternit21 test. i couldn't do it before, i just couldn't make myself.
 
Well since before we had our son, our girl name has been Adelynn Kelly. I'm not sure if we will keep it or if its up for discussion. I'm sure hubby and I will talk about it this weekend and decide if we will keep it or not!
 
Nice!!!

I have to say i didn't announce my pregnancy on FB with my first but someone asked me how I was feeling and of course it came out. I will probably post a picture when the baby is born and everything looks alright. I've been really trying to go with my intuition and so far i don't feel regret. With my 2 MCs we never told anyone but my mom and dad. With this one I knew I needed the support of my coworkers. Even though I didn't hit the magic 12 week mark, I needed my close coworkers to understand that I was going through a tense and emotional time. They were completely supportive and have all stepped up to support me. I do not regret that decision. Honestly, go with how you feel. I don't feel that I or my family will be gaining anything by announcing the pregnancy on FB but I'm also not a consistent social media user. My husband and I are also getting a kick out of the idea of just showing up with a picture in April.

By the way, I had another gender dream. It was a girl. Did anyone have gender dreams that did/did not come true??
 
Beautiful name Kozmik!

Lala, with Magnus I dreamed he was a boy, with Robin I freed of a boy (though we will never know) and with Sophie I dreamed of a girl.
 
With my first I desperately wanted a boy but all my dreams I would see baby girl! Same this pregnancy I had one girl dream but also one boy dream.

So my dreams were clearly not always true lol
 
i had really vivid boy dreams with my son, but with this boy, i've had all girl dreams, lol! a blood test and ultrasound says he's all boy! so it's not always right!
 
Interesting! So far everything points to girl (gender quiz, dreams, conception timing, Chinese prediction chart etc...) I can't wait to see what I'm having! Is April really 4 months away??

So my husband and I are not coming up with names that we like :0( any fun ways to get inspired?
 
https://www.babynamegenie.com/baby-name-generator/

I loved doing this each time I was pregnant. There's also options for if you have a first or middle in mind and it'll Gove random pairings with it :)
 
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