How to Tell your Family and Friends your Pregnant

Telling your family and friends that you are having a baby can bring about lots of emotions. Here are some creative ways to break the news!

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  • Review the ideas and do what best fits you and your budget!

Instructions

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      Theme it around a holiday! For Halloween/fall carve pumpkins- Baby insert the month and year! Or carve out baby theme items, such as a bottle, rubber duck, or a pacifier. Or Congratulations to the new grandparents, aunt, or uncle!

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      For Thanksgiving create a memorable table decoration- a family of pilgrims or turkeys with your name on them!, dye dinner rolls pink and blue or mashed potatoes. It will keep guests talking and then you can reveal the news in a family prayer.

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      For Christmas- give your parents a framed ultrasound picture, grandma and grandpa mug, shirt, ornament etc.. For a brother or sister reads "aunt, uncle, or cousins (if they have children)" and then reveal the news in the card or frame. Give out blue and pink Christmas cookies or ornaments. Or reveal Baby ___ insert date in Christmas lights in your lawn or on a fence. Or write it in your Christmas card.

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      Reveal the news on New Years to a glass of nonalcoholic champagne.

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      Near Easter, fill up a basket full of plastic eggs and place the revealing news inside!

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      Send pink and blue flowers to their work with the news!

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      Make a personalized magazine cover, mug, family calendar (with due date on it!), mouse pad, puzzle etc... using pictures that reveal the message. Walgreens and Walmart have low cost personalized photo gifts or check out a multitude of websites that now offer low cost gifts.

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      Post it on Facebook or Myspace. Word travels fast!

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      Create a crossword puzzle with the message revealed in a highlighted box down the center.

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      Create a cute video using your cell phone, digital camera, or video recorder and send it out. Add twists, like we are getting a new member to the family and pretend it to be a new puppy and then bring on the big reveal! Or show clips of the nursery to be.

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      Have family or friends over for dinner and reveal the secret in fortune cookies! Or on a special dessert after dinner.

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      Have your older son/daughter reveal the message on a cute homemade shirt or onesie. Big brother.... Big sister...

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      If you have a pet, they could also wear a homemade collar or pet t-shirt with the message revealed on it.

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      Give a family member or friend a book, cd, or movie with the secret revealed somewhere in it or on it- like on a bookmark or in a homemade mix cd.

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      Take them out to dinner and have the waitress or waiter bring out the reveal in colored drinks/shots (nonalcoholic for you!) or on a creative dessert.

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      Write a letter from the unborn child to their grandma or grandpa, aunt, or uncle telling them how excited they are to meet them.

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      Ask family or friends to go shopping and then your pick out the store (maternity or BabyRus) and reveal who you are shopping for!

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      Leave a pregnancy test out on the counter (completed) at a party or get together...it will get people talking!

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      Leave a basket of baby themed goodies at a family member or friends house or at their doorstep with a special note attached.

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      Change your message on your home phone or cell phone to include one more person!

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