5 Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy

Whether you are expecting your first, second or third child, you are probably wanting a creative way to announce your pregnancy to friends and family. If you don't want to simply start dialing numbers and telling everyone over the phone, then check out some of the creative ways to announce your pregnancy below.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: CD of Lullabies

Seems that everyone loves to sing to babies, especially when trying to get them to sleep, so sending out a CD of lullabies to friends and family with an announcement after the first song that you are expecting is a great creative way to announce your pregnancy. In order to make this announcement work you will need to be able to record your voice announcement onto your computer so that you can burn it onto the CDs, you will also need a subscription to iTunes or some other music gallery so that you can purchase children's songs, and of course you will need blank CDs and a computer with the ability to burn them. Once you have burned the CDs you can write on the front of them, "Put this CD in your CD player and listen carefully," so that you can be sure that everyone hears the news.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: Video Tape or DVD of First Heartbeat Sonogram

Why not share that amazing moment when you hear your baby's heartbeat for the first time with your friends and family. When you go to the doctor's appointment for the first sonogram where you expect to hear the heartbeat take a video recorder with you and capture all the excitement, and of course the heartbeat. If you have the right programs on your computer to turn this creative way to announce your pregnancy into a fully edited DVD then you can add special effects, music, or anything else you may want to. If you don't have that kind of programming on your computer, then simply making copies of the original recording will work just fine. Make sure that you send a note with the DVDs or tapes to make sure that everyone who receives one watches it immediately so no one misses out on the news.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: Custom M&Ms

If you visit the M&M website then you can make custom bags of M&Ms where you can choose the color of your M&Ms, as well as the message that appears on them. If you know the sex of the baby then you can choose a color combination to represent the gender of the baby, and then have a short message written on the little candies to share the exciting news like, "We're Expecting" or "Boy/Girl On The Way", you could even have your estimated due date put on the little chocolate treats. This creative way to announce your pregnancy is two treats in one, first there is the exciting news and then there is the chocolate treat that carries the news.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: Tickets to the Birth

If you have a small family and a small group of friends then you could order custom made tickets to the birth of your child. If you have a larger group then this creative way to announce your pregnancy might not be a good idea for you, especially if you don't want 60 people showing up at the hospital when you do go into labor, since you can't be sure how serious people might take the invitation. You can have your estimated due date as the date of the event and then write that it is subject to last minute change. If you know the gender of the baby and have already chosen a name then you can include that information in the title of the event. You can include the hospital or birthing center where you expect to give birth in the information as well. If you decide to use this creative way to announce your pregnancy then just get creative with the lingo you use on the ticket so that it closely resembles what you would find on a ticket to a concert, broadway event, or any other similar production.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: Team Jerseys

Instead of simply sending out shirts that say "Aunt in Training" or "Expectant Grandma" you might consider sending out team jerseys for family and friends. If you know the gender of the baby and have already chosen a name for the little person, then you can have shirts made that say, "Team (Baby's Name)" on the front, with the person's title (aunt, grandma, uncles, etc.) and their name on the back, along with a number (perhaps the last two numbers of the year or month in which the baby is to be born). Giving excited friends and family an excuse to share the exciting news with everyone they know is a great creative way to announce your pregnancy.

There are 5 creative ways for you to announce your pregnancy, hopefully you will found one to be perfect for your friends and family.