We're Having Another Baby! Fun Summer Pregnancy Reveal Ideas
Haha yep! We're on round two! Our first pregnancy appointment was last Thursday and now that we've shared the news with family and friends I thought it was time to share with the blog as well! We'll be due in December so that's very exciting. But, because of that, my husband and I did some non-traditional pregnancy reveals for both our first baby and this baby and I thought I would share some of the things we did as well as just some cute ideas I found online that are a little different than the norm. So here are seven cute pregnancy announcement ideas for your pregnancy announcement.
1. Facebook Idea: Post Riddles Online
This was the one we did for our first, and we "sorta" followed it up for our second. So a little backstory, we're not big Facebook people. Facebook has been great for saving us money on renovations because we've bought a lot of things (tubs, sinks, tile, etc.) from Facebook marketplace from our house, but we hardly ever post, read posts, engage, etc. But Facebook does have most of our connections. So obviously, as a way to announce that we were having our first baby, we wanted to make a Facebook post, but we didn't really want it to be a picture of us and really it to be too "traditional." My husband came up with an idea. So my husband is a big Lego collector. He bought a lot of sets in his teens that he's never opened and now he searches for old sets online for our kids. Needless to say, once our children are old enough to play with legos, they'll be more than set. Well one of the things he had was a family of Lego elephants, and because it looked like a mommy, daddy, and baby elephant, we snapped a picture of the three of them and posted it to Facebook with no caption the day before we announced our pregnancy at church. Some people got it, but the comments went back and forth about what it meant until it was finally revealed. People enjoyed the "riddle" and it was a lot of fun to see what people said. Anyway, you can do that, another alternative I've seen online is taking a photo of you and your spouse looking at old baby photos and see if people catch on. I think that's a cute idea as well. Or you can literally look up pregnancy announcement riddles and see what best fits your vibe. For the second baby, we wanted to get creative but really ran out of time, so we just posted our daughter playing with the original family of elephants with an additional baby. People caught on pretty quickly.
2. Send Postcards to Family Members
I would love to do this at some point, especially for my grandparents, but we've never done this one. Sending a postcard with an ultrasound picture or a baby bump I think is super cute and old-fashioned. Plus, if your grandparents are like mine, they will literally keep that sort of stuff on their fridge for YEARS! So I know they like it. At this point, we haven't ever had the time to do that, but I would love to for baby number three if we're in the position to do so. You can also get really creative with pictures beyond just the ultrasound pictures like pictures with a pair of your shoes, your partners, and some babies, a little onesie, clothes hanging on a drying line, or anything like that.
3. Photoshoot Surprise
So this is actually the way I announced the pregnancy to my husband, but it would work for family members too. So the day I took the pregnancy test for the second pregnancy, we were having our daughter's five-month-old photos taken in the location where we had our ceremony. After we got home, I uploaded the photos and edited them the same day, and put them in an album. At the end of the album I stuck a photo of my pregnancy test plus a grumpy photo of our little girl with the caption "When you find out you're a big sister." A hint of advice though, make sure the caption photo comes before the pregnancy test photo, because my husband forgot what a pregnancy test looked like, and thought he was at the end of the album. Wouldn't want that to happen, but if you're doing a post to Facebook or Instagram with some photoshoot pictures, a "surprise" picture at the end with a caption or something like that is a really fun way to surprise people with the announcement.
4. Disguise Reveal Party
So this is actually how we announced our first pregnancy to our family. My birthday is in May, and that was when we decided we wanted to announce the pregnancy. My dad wanted to plan a birthday party for me, and we thought it would be a clever way to surprise the extended family with our news so we asked him to invite some extra people. At the event, my husband gave me a gift (I actually bought it for myself but it was part of the surprise) which was a wedding album with our wedding pictures, however on the back of the album it had our ultrasound picture with the caption "Due this Autumn." As I showed everyone the wedding album, we flipped it over and revealed the news while my father-in-law (both our parents knew) recorded the whole thing. This is definitely one of the sweetest ways to tell people as you can get some pretty cute reactions, HOWEVER, I did not take into account this. I literally HATE being at the center of attention like that, so for me, it was all SUPER uncomfortable and awkward. So maybe keep that in mind and have the "disguise party" not already be centered on you. Whenever we have the house finished and invite a family event or something, that would be a good way to reveal baby number three or something like that and I think I would enjoy that much more. So housewarming parties, birthdays, graduation parties, anything like that - IF THEY ARE YOURS of course. Like your housewarming party, your graduation, etc. I feel like I have to clarify that because some people don't know, like I wouldn't not because I want to "steal" anyone else's thunder but like in my mind if I was announcing my pregnancy and someone else announced theirs I'd be like, "Oh yay, a distraction!" but most people are not like that. To give you an example, I didn't know why my cousin didn't ask me to hand her my bouquet for a bouquet toss (she was getting married the next week) but then I realized that would have maybe been intrusive for her. I also was surprised when everyone gave me shocked looks about me wanting them to all wear white to my wedding (I also wore white) and realized later how taboo that is. So if that sort of explains me a bit, I understand that there are some people that would need that explained to them who aren't absolute d***.
5. Fun Games with Family
This is a super cute idea I would love to do one of these days but probably never will. So charades is a good game to use this with, or the little card game where you put cards on your head and pretend to be celebrities (but instead you are "pregnant"), but there are a lot of cute ones out there. But essentially, you have a game night where you invite some people over and play a game that would allow you to announce the news via the game. Personally, I think it would be funny to play the game Life and incorporate a baby reveal into that, but I'm not sure anyone has done it.
6. Sibling Shirt Idea
This is what we did to announce our second pregnancy to my husband and my parents. So before with our first pregnancy, we were just so surprised and shocked by it all that we just flat out told them, but with this one, we wanted to do something fun, but still let them in on the secret before anyone else. So we bought a "Big Sis" t-shirt off of Etsy, planned a day to hang out, and shared it with each of them. Obviously, this happened on different days, but the reactions were very cute. They were pleasantly surprised and thought our daughter looked super cute in her shirt. Bonus for this one is if you don't want to be the center of attention, your baby can be, so our daughter loved it and I also go to enjoy them excited for her to be a big sister.
7. Calendar Announcement
This one is a super cute idea! So the idea is you get a calendar for someone (spouse, parent, grandparent, whoever) and mark the due date. You give it to them as a gift and have them look at each of the pictures for the month. When they come across the due date, there you have it. Obviously, this can't be a huge group announcement, but it's a cute intimate way to tell someone close to you like a spouse or parents. I'm thinking this would be a great idea for baby number three if I could make up a Shutterfly calendar for N's parents and my dad and give it to them as a gift / pregnancy announcement. Who knows if I'll actually do that? An alternative to this idea is a photo book of your children with the last page being an ultrasound picture with a due date that way they can hold onto it forever.
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