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Social Media?
How many of you have or will post pregnancy annoucements/ gender of baby on facebook or other social media sites? Tomorrow we have an ultrasound which will hopefully be able to determine the gender of our 2nd baby. I will be 20 weeks. I have not posted anything about being pregnant however, my close friends and family know. My hubby wants to post a picture of the ultrasound tomorrow after we have told our immediate family. I am not sure how i feel about it. My privacy settings are set high and i do post pictures of my 2 year old however, for some reason i have reservations about posting a pregnancy annoucement this pregnancy. I do know 2 people who have had miscarriages in the past few months and maybe that is why i am hesitant? Anyone have any thoughts on social media and prego annoucements? Just looking for some idea of what peoples thoughts are. Fyi i am an infrequent poster! Mostly pictures every couple weeks for my relatives who dont live near me.
I announced my pregnancy at 20 weeks. Im currently 23 weeks. U waited until i stated to show... However, I wont be posting the gender of my baby bc i feel if u really want to know ppl work ask me or be at the baby shower
I don't post nothing on my Facebook that has to do with my kids that are eight , and I never announced my pregnancy I feel my personal life should be revoled around my love one friends family , if your close to me then yes but strangers and ppl that gossip and etc no my style .but everyone has there own option
Wow. Thanks for all the feedback! I think i may say something about my toddler becoming a big sister this summer but i wont be posting the ultraspund pics. It is hard. If anything bad were to happen i would want my family and close friends support but not necessarily old high school friends and old work associates.
Well, we are all different.Eventhou it's our first baby.hubby and I are so excited about the our baby's arrival he warned me not to even post anytin that has to do with our baby on social media.week 36 now , few more dayz to go! Having my baby shower on saturday.he said I can post all d pix @babys 1st birthday!he's in support of me enjoying every bits of my pregnancy but no pix on social media..so i have to go with my husband.
I don't have FB but DH does. I like privacy, he likes to share with the world. I already know there will be no stopping him from announcing when we are 12 weeks. It will upset me but I know I will get past it. I have very similar concerns as you though. I don't like to have near strangers in on my private life but it's not the end of the world. In today's time, all you can do sometimes is accept that this is the way our world is.
I posted my preg at 16 weeks. But i think the ultrasound picture/video is special and somwthing to keep for yourselves and close people in your lives.
I won't be, but I know my family would
I didn't post anything on there till my ultrasound and was told I'm having a boy from then on I posted a belly shot cause friends were asking. Lol my hubby could not wait he posted something as soon as we found out. I how ever kept it more private. And my proximate settings are also high
I am pretty private too. So I havent posted any ultrasound pics. But after my last ultrasound my bf mom took it upon herself to post my ultrasound on Facebook. And I got so upset because I didnt want it on Facebook. And it had all my personal info on the top of the pic. Ugh Facebook is good sometimes but other times not so much
I read a lot of good points! I was very excited after i got my last ultrasound at 19wks and posted a picture with the sex of my baby... completely regret it. Social media shouldn't be for personal matters. My own opinion! Although it may change. I say go with your gut feeling! And what feels comfortable to YOU!
I think some things are private, and personal. If live away from family so I share personal scans and whatnot through private messenger, whatsapp or email. I have put very little on facebook. Some things are left best to the special people in your life. I think they would feel special too, not just seeing along with your 100 FB friends who you may not even really know that well.
Im a facebook addict,i post a lot of pics on there mainly because i live in west of ireland and all my family live in Dublin and i dont see them a lot so its great they can see pics of my kids and i can see pics of my neices...when it came to pregnancy announcement i waited til my first scan and i sent them all a private message with the scan picture,i didnt put my scan pic up publicly coz i just felt sending it to them and telling them in a private message was more personal...when i have my baby though i will put up a pic publicly...do whatever you feel comfortable with it
I don't do facebook because of a crazy Aunt so word of mouth is what I did. I told close family members and then told my dad to tell extended family since they were excited to talk!
I will not be posting anything and I expressed to my family I don't want any pictures or announcements of him posted without my permission. Me and My husband don't do social media like that. The people I care about know. If at any time he is on social media it will come from myself or my husband.
My husband posts everything as soon as it happens. I usually do too though. Its how we keep in contact with our friends and family. I don't have strangers or many acquaintances on Facebook, just people I actually associate with. I am fine with people knowing most anything that's going on. Its a personal choice though.
I posted I was pregnant with a video of the ultrasound but it would of been around 14 weeks and I've posted pics around 30 weeks when my belly started showing more. I didn't do gender announcement or anything though.
True I dont want anyone else to post it!
Thanks ladies! I know hubby will want to post it tomorrow. I will think about it and decide. I just dont need or want people i barely knew in highschool knowing my business should anything go wrong.
Talk with your spouse see what your both comfortable with. I'm not big with posting on Facebook and my husband is but with our kids where more selective but with this pregnancy we planned on waiting to Post anything and his aunt posted it for us so that caused serious friction because it wasn't her place when we found out its a girl we did post it and when I found out my not so liked father in law (for many justified reasons) had copied it and reposted the picture after that my husband and I have decided not to post anything else but that is a very personal decision good luck
I posted it on my fb, I had my 20 week u/s last week. I didn't totally want to but it's exciting. I have friends who had miscarriages and i feel for them but this is about you.
I am an infrequent fb poster as well. However I did just post my announcement at 23 weeks. I only did it because I will have to ask for family and friends address soon for the baby shower and thought it would be weird if I had I'm pregnant and need your address for the baby shower all in one conversation.
Ugh. I refuse to have facebook & my husband is already talking about putting photos on there as soon as she's out! I'm not at all cool with it. He hated waiting til the second trimester to announce to everyone we were expecting & the day after we found out baby is a girl, everyone knew. I'm more of a private person & there are very few family members out of state so we see everyone pretty regularly. I asked him to please wait a day but he gets all defensive & says he's just proud & wants to show her off which is sweet but still...
I don't have social media but my husband does.. He just put a pic of us announcing the pregnancy. Am 37 weeks and he wants to put pic up right after our son is born but am against it... So will see
I uploaded mine.. and in august just gone I lost our baby due to early labour at 23weeks. The first thing I did was put it on fb Obvs after giving our self's time. For me it's was the easiest way of only having to say once and not having to face anyone and just get on with my grieving.to be honest the support i had was unreal. I really hope you have an amazing pregnancy that's just from the other side yano. I'm now pregnant again and when I have my 12 week scan I will post another picture. I'm more aware now that a life begins before he/she is born and fingers crossed nothing happens but if it did i don't want this baby to be a secret. I want everyone to know how loved he/she is right from the beginning and is important from the very first week. Don't mean to sound depressing but if the worst happens(fingers crossed) it's a good feeling for so much support and awareness x
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