10 Ways to Tell People You're Pregnant

In case you haven't heard, my wife and I are having a baby!  Here are a few ways we shared our good news!!

I requested that we tell my parents first since I am an only child and this would be there first grandchild.  Katy's parents already have 3 grandchildren and another on the way (ours will be #5). We wanted to share our news in a cool way, you know other than just saying, "Hey guess what, we're having a baby."  We only had 24 hours to figure it out because we were leaving for Thanksgiving.  So...

1.  Katy bought two shirts from the SNU bookstore for my parents that say "SNU Grandparent" on the front.  We were just going to give it to them as a gift, but instead we decided it would be more fun to wear the shirts.  So we put them on and walked into the room and said "We got these cool shirts the other day and thought you might like them."  They were definitely excited.  They said, "Like, for real?  Are you for real!?" As if we would play a joke like that. 

Here are some of the other ways we shared our good news.

2.  Katy made a card that was made out to the baby of some of our friends.  The inside of the card read:
Will you be my friend?  
[] Yes [] No
Love, Baby Bradley

3. We meet with our small group from church every Sunday night.  One Sunday night I prayed before our meal.  "Dear God thank you for this day....bless this food to nourish our bodies...especially Katy's body as she has a baby growing inside of her...and prepare our hearts as we become parents....Amen!

4.  One of my best friends is an insurance agent for State Farm.  I told him I would need to set up a new policy and maybe a 529 College Fund.

5.  This wasn't planned but it worked out great.  Katy went down to visit her sister because she just had a baby.  Her mom, sisters, and grandparents were there visiting as well.  Katy's 4 year old niece got a Dr. kit with scrubs, band-aids, a stethoscope, etc for her birthday from her aunt (Katy's sister Emily) that is a P.A.  Brenna (Katy's niece) was using the stethoscope, checking everyone's heartbeat.  When she got to Katy, she moved the stethoscope to Katy's stomach.  Katy asked her if she could hear a heartbeat?   She said yes.  She asked if she could hear two?  She said yes.  Katy asked her what does that mean?  Brenna said, "That there's a baby in there?"

6.  One of our friends absolutely LOVES his birthday.  So we went to his house and sang some birthday carols.  We sang "We wish you a merry birthday" and we also sang the birthday song and said "happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Uncle Chad & Aunt Kendall, happy birthday to you.

7.  Katy's work has an annual Christmas party with a "Dirty Santa" gift exchange.  One of Katy's coworkers purposely brought a baby book.  Someone opened it and thought it random that someone bought a baby book.  When it was Katy's turn, she stole the baby book and said "I'll take the baby book since I will be needing it in the near future."

8.  We got an ultrasound picture at our first Dr. appointment.  We included the picture in a Christmas card and gave it to my Grandma.  The card simply said Merry Christmas!  Love Brett, Katy, and Baby Bradley.  My Grandma was pretty excited.

9.  We took this picture to put on facebook and Twitter.  The shoes are the ones we wore for our wedding that have our wedding date on the back.  We both love tennis shoes and thought it only appropriate that the first baby item we bought were little tennis shoes.  My sister-in-law is a talented graphic designer and added the approximate due date to the back of the baby shoes.  The baby is due to arrive the week of our 5 year anniversary.

10.  Quite possibly the best baby announcement I've seen was by our good friends The Meisners.  Check out their creative video announcement here. 

What cool ways have you heard people spread their news?