I told hubby straight away! We have been trying for a very long time (~3 years) and have had some losses so when it comes to him knowing, it's straight away.
We saw the heartbeat on a scan yesterday!!! So we made these little boxes for our parents and gave one to the in laws last night at dinner
it is a little chocolate heart, with a note underneath which says "We've made someone you'll love to meet... And today we saw their first heartbeat". It was really cute
I'll try to add pics if it will let me.
That is so cute!
The first time I got pregnant I called my mom and told her as she lives in a different state. For the in laws, that live in the same town, I got coffee mugs that said grandma and grandpa, a cute bib that said something about grandmas favorite and a childrens book. For the hubby, I used a digital hpt that said "pregnant" and taped it to the bathroom mirror. I had window paint so wrote "Daddy" and then the due date underneath. This time around I texted my mom and my sister in laws..as its the fifth time. When I announce to everyone I'm doing this!!
https://www.lendmeyourkite.com/tag/pregnancy-announcement/
Oh my god. That made me cry
Same here
Ready to cry just thinking about it actually...
With DD I had spotting the same day I first tested. DH was on this thing saying "you're pregnant" before I had tested. He called on his way home from work and said that and I just started crying saying "not for long". The next day he asked if I was still pregnant (on his way home) and I told him yes. He brought flowers and a mommy-to-be card home. I cried over that. It took a few hours to open the card because I was already crying enough from the flowers. And typing this is making me cry, wth.
We told my mom later in the week for a support system just in case. After my brother and SIL left, we told her we had an early birthday present for her. We gave her a positive test in a gift box.
We told my dad, brother and SIL at 13 weeks. We were celebrating my brother's birthday so we put a copy of the ultrasound in the card saying "happy birthday uncle j!".
For DH's family, I made cupcakes. Half with blue icing and the other half with pink. Then I wrote on top 08.17.13. We tell everyone at once so we dropped off 2 cupcakes to MIL and FIL. Then we had SILs and their spouses over for pizza and then gave them the cupcakes.
Then for FB I just posted a picture of the cupcakes.
This one, was very unplanned. I think my face turned white when the test turned positive following several f-bombs
I knew DH wouldn't handle the news well since it's the worst timing ever to have another, so I told my mom so I could have a support system in place. I sent her a picture of the positive test to her work email and underneath said "can you call me?" She was so tickled.
Due to our schedules, it was hard to find a perfect opportunity to drop the bomb on DH, so I got up early with him the next morning. I didn't know how to tell him, so I just showed him a picture of the positive test. He slowly asked "whose is this?" When I told him it was mine he was like, "What!? You're pregnant!?" Then kind of did this weird flop onto the bed. Several minutes of profanity followed by a couple minutes of 'I love you" then back to several more minutes of profanity. Then after that he was fine and said that even though it's crappy timing, he loves the baby already.
Provided everything turns okay, around 12-14 weeks we'll start telling family. For my family we'll probably just do a big sister shirt.
DH's family... no idea. They won't be impressed by this (but I've told him that you can't expect a married couple to not have sex and birth control fails! His mom thought she had a birth control fail at 40 so they know it's possible). It'll probably just be like "hey, btw...".
FB, I have no idea. I may wait awhile for FB only because of the circumstances. But I don't know. I don't know if I want to do something cutesy or just be upfront about it. If things work out, I'm kind of tempted to wait. I'm not sure I'm ready for my classmates to know, but then again, they may find out sooner than later. So it'll depend. If they find out, I'll probably put it on FB just because I wouldn't want any of them to accidentally mention it on there.
Idk, we'll see if and when we get there.