Just found out my wife is pregnant 🤰🏽! How did y’all reveal to your family/friends? Looking for fun creative ideas 🙂

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Congratulations! I hate to be the downer and I hope you take this in the spirit of helpfulness in which it is intended.

How far along is she? Have you first considered who “needs” to know right now given the fact that not all pregnancies end well?

In my own personal experience and with family and friends, it is a given that you don’t announce widely until after the first trimester is safely over.

I can say more about that if you’re curious.

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Appreciate the congratulations! Definitely won’t be telling anyone for a few months (if it was my call, I’d leave it a surprise until after the little one is born), but just wanted to crowdsource for ideas when we do start telling people. Only around 7 weeks or so at this point.

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I’d suggest you ignore any suggestions with fire or explosions. Congratulations!

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Won’t be doing a gender reveal so hopefully no explosions/fire needed haha. And thanks!

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Ours was all over the place.

My Parents live on the east coast and we live on the west. I ordered cupcakes filled with the gender color to be sent to their house and paid for takeout dinner so they could have their own gender reveal party. We just FaceTimed while they cut the cupcakes.

Her mom was visiting family in the Midwest so we did the same for her + family she was with.

Her dad was coming by the house so I just spelt the word boy in cronuts and had him pull off the paper towel haha.

Everyone else just got a ultrasound text picture of his dong and butthole since the nurse decided that was the best angle to take the photo 😂

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Called my dad on Father’s Day and wished him Happy Grandfather’s Day instead. My mom picked up the implication faster than he did.

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(Kidding). Congrats!

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Got a nice bottle of champagne, removed the label and printed a fake label with a rhyme my wife made up about drinking one for her. Wrapped it and gave as a gift.

Love the ideas, thank you all!

Wife puked on my mom

Might skip this one 🤣

Text: “[WIFE NAME]’s pregnant”

Suggest you look at YouTube. Very creative ideas there to surprise expected grandparents and friends

Honestly didn’t even think of this, I’ll take a look! I’ve seen such good videos in the past on YouTube and Facebook.

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