Fun Ways To Announce Your Pregnancy

Bumpies share their tips for telling the family you're pregnant.

Looking for some inspiration when it comes to fun ways to break the baby news? We put this one to our users. Here's what you came up with...

“I have an older sister who already has a son. At an extended family gathering my mom says ‘Well, I'm going to be a grandma again!’ Everyone(aunts, uncles, cousins) turned to my sister and yelled out her name.She was shaking her head no and then they turned to me and said ‘XYZ,you're pregnant?’” -- vagirl06

“My family: At Easter (the day before actually), I made a onesie for my 7-month-old niece that said, ‘I'm getting a cousin!’
DH's family: At Easter, I wore a maternity tank that said, ‘I ♥ baby.’Everyone was too nervous to ask me about it, so I said to his mom, "I see you looking at my shirt. Aren't you going to say anything?’ And she got all excited and told me she thought maybe I was just wearing the shirt because I thought it was cute or something.” -- jesnbrent

“We waited until Easter, and had the whole family on both sides over for dinner. My DH asked for everyone to hold hands right before dinner, so he could say grace. He started with how many things that we are all thankful for, and ended the list with an addition to the family -- that we were expecting. The family was so excited, it was a great dinner.” -- Dunkin

“I told my parents after coming back from the OB at week nine. I had decided in my mind not to tell them for another three weeks, even though I had the sonogram pic in my pocket. My mother asked me, ‘So what's going on with your testing? You decided not to do it, didn't you?’ I smiled and threw out the sonogram picture. Shocked them too!” -- Ingrid&Richard

“I wanted to tell family members individually, which was neat because everyone got to have their own moment. The best one was when I told my15-year-old sister. I actually went and pulled her out of cheer practice and she was just ecstatic! It was a total shock for everyone,but it certainly made all of our family members happy.” -- Sara0110

“We went to visit my in-laws for DH's birthday, which is just a few days apart from his brother's birthday. I baked a cake and decorated it with king cake babies. I wrote on the cake ‘Happy Birthday Uncle A and Daddy A.’ DH asked MIL to cut and serve the cake. She commented on how cute the babies were and read the text. She was so confused, but after a minute she said, ‘Are you expecting?’” -- Iguanita

“With our friends, we did the group photo announcement. My husband gathered us all into a group and took pictures with several of my friends cameras, and finally his own. So it went, ‘say cheese...’ with one camera, ‘say cheese...’ with the next, and finally ‘say xyz's pregnant’ with his own camera. Everyone said it and then laughed... but then it set in, and we were able to capture everyone's reaction forever!” -- RunAway

“We had an ultrasound at 6w4d. We had a photo of the sonogram, so we scanned it and printed out copies for each grandmother to be. We made excuses to give them gifts, then presented each of them with the sonogram in a baby frame. We also had my digital camera ready, which secretly films a movie, too -- so we have it all captured for our journal!” -- finallyPG

“We told the rest of the family at Easter dinner. We gathered together a tour house and were holding hands for the prayer that DH led. At the end, DH said, ‘And thank you Lord for the new addition coming to our family, in Jesus' name, amen.’ Everyone did a quiet amen but they were all looking around confused and someone said, ‘What new addition?’That's when I said ‘I'm pregnant!’ They were all blown away!” -- septemberdc

“For my parents, we told them the night before Easter (also their anniversary) by a poem I made for them from the baby. My dad got it after the second line and my mom read the whole thing then looked at me crying. She was like OMG your having a baby!!! It was so cute. For DH’s family we went over there on Easter night and gave them a Eastercard signed with our names and BABY!! FIL's GF was screaming and FIL was so happy!” -- fairytalebride5

“When I found out I was pg with my DD, we had plans to go to dinner with DH's family (MIL, FIL, SIL and BIL). SIL was 12 at the time and I found a bib that said ‘I love my aunt’ and put it in a gift bag. I sat next to her at dinner and slipped the bag to her. She opened it without my ILs seeing and just kinda looked at it confused. She showed my MIL who didn't get it either. My FIL finally understood and starting crying.
With this pg, I made an Easter basket for the same SIL and in one of those little plastic eggs, I put a slip of paper saying, ‘You're going to be an aunt... again!’ This time she got it and started screaming to the rest of the family. (She is 14 now.)” -- RugbyBride

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-- Paula Kashtan

May 27, 2009

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