I'll step off the soap box, I'm wondering what your thoughts are. People feel entitled to know the inner workings of our lives when they don't take any time outside of hitting "like" or commenting. I guess that out a bad taste in my mouth.
People were offended, as if we should have told them despite not interacting outside a screen in YEARS! People were shocked, I was shocked they were shocked, but that showed me how removed we are from these people I have on fb. WE had planned this for a while, baby happened quicker than we thought, but it didnt change the plans. 'Bun in the oven' is a classic way to announce your pregnancy on social media. Or simply write your message with chalk on your driveway, prop your child with it, and announce it on social media. Part of this is also because we eloped in august. 30 Creative ways to Announce Pregnancy on Social Media - 2021. If people ask I can tell them and not have a big fuss. So, maybe I just won't filter those out and let it be. With the holidays coming up there's no doubt there will be photos of me an I'm already showing. I've thought about starting a small blog or something to share with family so they can see photos. He generally hates Facebook so, he's not going to argue that we should. My husband doesn't have much if an opinion, he's relatively laid back and will go with the flow. I don't know that I want social media inundating my child life before it's first breath. It just feels so private now that I'm here. So, I'm not itching to tell a bunch of people that barely know us anymore. Best friends from high school and younger probably don't know. We are so excited and our families, co-workers and friends we regularly interact with know. We skipped it for safety and privacy reasons. I just did a cute picture and posted it without a caption and got an underwhelming response lol. Now that I'm here, with child growing rapidly.I'm less sure this is the route I want to take. I had 9 miscarriages before this pregnancy so we chose to wait until 17 weeks to announce on social medias. Grab a chalkboard and write out four different messages. Win win.I'm conflicted! I always thought I would put a cutesy/creative announcement on Facebook parading my pregnancy with updates as I go. This announcement is a great way to include the little one you already have running around at home. She’s a terrible secret keeper but by telling her it was a secret we wouldn’t get a bunch of called or texts as people found out and didn’t have to go through the process off contacting everyone. So of course his dad knew but still tried to act surprised when my husband told him. My husband just told his mother, then told her to keep it a secret.
Except our stepdad (mom and him are split but we still do Father’s Day and holidays with him) we waiting until father’s day and he completely missed the grandpa card we got him, then he thought my sister was pregnant as we tried to hint. We found out before Mother’s Day so I made my mom a card and put the sonogram picture in it and that’s how we told my family.
My husband wanted to do the same with our families but I pointed out they would notice when my stomach was the size of a beachball. But we had a friend that moved to another country so we wanted to be jerks and not tell him until the baby arrived. With a social media post, people can just drop a comment or an emoji and move on. I did tell close family and friends one-on-one, but if I could avoid the same repeat conversation (omg so exciting! due date? gender reveal? have you thought about names? etc.) with colleagues and people not in my inner circle, that was definitely preferred. I know it sounds terrible, because my loved ones are happy for me (and I do appreciate that!), but it just gets to be the same conversation over and over. It helped me feel better to announce in the most public way possible - it made me feel like people would be more understanding and not just assume I’m a bad employee or friend.Īlso, this might be weird, but: I like people knowing about the major developments in my life, but I don’t enjoy announcing life news to people individually. I personally experienced a LOT of anxiety about how I was behaving during first trimester (calling out of work with no notice, skipping work duties, flaking on plans, making up excuses not to drink with friends week after week, and just generally not being myself). It felt like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders.īut it’s such a personal decision.
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