My husband and I differ in our views of having children and the number of them. I think my spontaneous personality and his planned personality play a role in our views. Realizing this has given me a new respect for his views and respect for his responses to the news each time.
So we found out in February that we are expecting baby #4. My husband's response to this possibility was "I was actually thinking recently how the two older girls are buddies and it would be nice for K3 to have a buddy too." Not that he would have planned on having one, rather that it didn't hit so hard to find out for sure that we are indeed pregnant... Again.
Tonight, we wanted to tell the children since we would be giving the announcement photo collage to his parents tomorrow.
I think it's funny how he and I approach sharing the news differently. I wanted to record the kids reactions so I took video while the kids talked to daddy via FaceTime (video chat) since he is overseas for a couple weeks. He just said "mommy is having another baby" right off the bat. My take would have been a tad less direct... Maybe a "so girls, how do you like having a baby in the house? How would you like to have another around later this year?"
No way is right or wrong... Just different.
Oh and add unpredictable children to it and it's bound to be a weird video to show them when they are older. From the questions they ask, to the picking their nose right in the middle of it all. Yup- that video is not getting posted unedited!
Since our second pregnancy we have had a birthday pattern going.
For our first pregnancy we told our families at Christmas - about 10 weeks along- via special Christmas presents with key words like grandma, grandpa, aunt, and uncle. For our second pregnancy, we waited until our first child's first birthday party- when we were 20 weeks along. She was wearing a Big Sister shirt. It was funny because we went to my dad and brother first and they held her and chatted for a minute with us but never read her shirt! Then we went to my mom and grandma... Yup mom read it right away. Then my husband's parents... They had to be led to reading the shirt... Of course at that time everyone else saw it and we're watching for their reaction so all eyes were on them.
For our third pregnancy we did shirts again. Our second child was turning two and she and her sister wore Big Sister and Bigger Sister shirts to the party. We were about 16 weeks along. This was the pregnancy where we had an early miscarriage and later found out that there was another baby alive and well in there. We did not tell of the miscarriage until the one year anniversary of it. (This story can be found here in my blog in two posts).
So sticking with the birthday theme, we are telling them again for a birthday. Our third is turning one year old. This time though we won't announce at the party.
I uploaded pictures of her and her sisters into a collage card and added a poem I wrote. This is being given along with the party information to our immediate family. We will probably post the poem and pics to Facebook on her birthday to announce to the rest of our friends.
So... How have you announced a pregnancy? Or How have you seen it done and like it? Or how would you do it, given the chance to plan something?
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