Comments on: How to Tell Your Family You're Pregnant

on 11/15/2008 Great ideas! With our first, we went to a fortune cookie website and ordered some that said, "You will soon be adding a new addition to the family." We gave them to our parents, aunts and uncles after dinner one evening. They each opened them up and read them. After the third person opened it up with the same message, someone yelled, "what a rip-off! They all say the same thing!" My hubby and I just watched and giggled for a couple of minutes. They were all clueless until we told them----which made it even funnier!!!

on 10/5/2008 I'm not expecting yet, but we'll be trying soon. So of course I've been thinking of creative ways to tell our parents. With my parents, I am their youngest. So, I plan to bring over a dozen roses. 11 of them red, and one pink. With a card that says "11 red roses from your baby and 1 pink one from ours" :)

on 10/5/2008 I'm not expecting yet, but we'll be trying soon. So of course I've been thinking of creative ways to tell our parents. With my parents, I am their youngest. So, I plan to bring over a dozen roses. 11 of them red, and one pink. With a card that says "11 red roses from your baby and 1 pink one from ours" :)

on 8/9/2008 My husband and I are still trying to concive, but as soon as i am, i want to send baby bottle pops to my family(we live in az, and most of all of our family lives in va) or if its around christmas im going to give them each a stocking or a bag with a baby bottle pop inside and count to 3 so they all open them at once. I can't wait to see my mom's reaction the most.

on 5/30/2007 I was 18 when I fell pregnanet with my first baby. I rang my father & told him on his 40th birthday. "Happy Birthday Grandad" I said. He said thanks and carried on with the conversation. I thought he had missed it completely but he stopped and the pause was enough for me to know he had heard me. Because i was young i had no idea how he would react but he was great about it. The funny thing was he always told me never to make him a grandparent before he was 40... So he said thats what made it ok lol. If i had told him the day before he wouldn't of been impressed!

on 12/30/2006 When we had our second planned child, I wanted to "surprise" my husband. So I waited until his birthday which was a week away, and wrote in the card,Happy Birthday - Love, Jennifer, Daniel and ????
That got his attention!

on 8/28/2006 My husband and I had been married for 6 years when we finally got pregnant (our families had given up waiting, I think). I bought a bunch of onesies in various sizes. Then I stamped them with "I love my Great Grampie," "I love my Aunt Janis," etc., making one for everyone who was going to be at my mom's birthday dinner. The dinner got postponed, and when we finally all got together, I could hardly wait until after we ate. I brought out small boxes labeled with everyone's names. They all opened their boxes at once; they had no clue what was coming. It took a few moments for them to realize what was going on. Their reactions were priceless!

on 8/28/2006 My husband and I were really trying to find a way to tell both of our parents at the same time without just coming out and saying it. We plan on telling our family that we're pregnant during a game night. I plan on suggesting a game of hangman, and the message will be: "We're Pregnant." I can't wait to see the reaction on their faces once they guess all the letters. I'm excited to see who will figure it out first!

on 8/11/2006 Cookies: Make a batch of sugar cookies. Frost half of them pink and half of them blue. Set them out at a family get together and just walk away.
If you have pets: Tie helium balloons to the collar of your pet and have them enter their house (or greet the guests).

Ultrasound: "Here is a picture of the last time we visited" (Hand them the ultrasound).

Let the mail do the work: Send a postcard with just the due date.

Calendar: Pick up a calendar from the store - something unique that reminds you of the person you are telling. Give it to them. "Look at (month of due date), it is the best image." Have the baby's due date boldly decorated.

Book: Get a pregnancy book. Bring it out and say something along the lines of, "Have you read any of (author's) books? This one is a page turner!"

on 8/8/2006 My husband and I are still trying, but when we do get pregnant we want to take 2 pregnancy test (that are positive), put a pink and blue ribbon on them and put them in little booties. We will then give one to my Mom and Dad and let them open them at the same time. It will be their first grandchild, so we plan to video tape them while they open the gifts.

on 8/8/2006 My husband and I live in Hawaii and our families live in TX and NC, so when we get the news we are going to send leis in the mail to both sets of parents with a card that says "Congratulations Grandpa & Grandma". This is what some friends of ours did, and I thought it was a wonderful idea.

on 8/8/2006 When my husband and I found out that we were expecting our first child, and my parents first grandchild, my parents were away in Hawaii. We made a poster that said "Welcome Home Grandma and Grandpa (last name)" and waited at their gate holding it up. It took a minute for it to sink in, even after they noticed that it was us holding it. Nowadays, you'd have to wait at baggage claim.

on 6/30/2006 My husband had a great idea to take the first ultra sound picture and put it on a cake. When we went to our parent's house for a family get together and we brought our 'special' desert.

on 6/30/2006 My best friend, who lives miles away, recently got pregnant. Instead of telling me over the phone she sent me a box full of tampons that said, "Guess I won't be needing these any more!" I thought it was such a unique and special way of telling me the news! Very original!

on 6/30/2006 My Mother is an Internet junky and uses it for everything, even small talk that can be done in person or over the phone. So over the last few months I have been collecting the e-mail addresses of family members that she talks to on a regular basis. Her birthday is coming up and I decided that to let her know we are pregnant, I was going to ask everyone she talks to through e-mail to send her and e-mail on her birthday saying Happy Birthday and congratulations (they will not know what congratulations means and neither will she), so I will give her a card letting them know why every one is saying congratulations!