Unique Pregnancy Announcement Ideas

One of the most exciting moments in your life may indeed be discovering you're pregnant! It will be a really special moment when you share the news with your partner, relatives, friends, and colleagues. As a result, you might be looking for some exceptional pregnancy announcement ideas to make that moment extra special. Don’t worry, we have got you covered.

In this article, we have listed down many unique ideas for announcing your pregnancy to your partner, family or friends.

When To Announce Pregnancy?

After finding out you're pregnant, announcing your pregnancy is likely the next most thrilling event. However, the timing of your pregnancy announcement is up to you, but it also partly relies on who you're breaking the news to. For example- if it is your partner, then you shouldn’t and you wouldn’t wait for long before telling him. But with other relatives or parents, you might take some liberty and take some more time.

In short, it’s completely your call but do remember to make it a bit special so that it becomes memorable.

 15 Pregnancy Announcement Ideas

We know that you want to break the news of your pregnancy memorably. That’s why we have done the hard job for you, here are some excellent plans for announcing your pregnancy. Have a look-

• Gift the pregnancy kit

Yes, yes, we know this is a bit of a cliché idea but it works. Just wrap your pregnancy test kit in a gift box and give it to your partner. The wrapped gift will add the element of surprise and your job will be done quite right.

• Say it while playing games

Share your news during game night, especially if you enjoy playing games together. You can add a chit while playing chit-games, or during charades, you can give hints, and you can also spell out your message while playing board games like scrabble.

• Hide toys in your bedroom

Buy some baby toys and hide them in different corners of your bedroom. Let your partner slowly find and collect all the toys till it occurs to him. You will enjoy seeing him confused if he doesn’t get it after finding a few toys. 

• Bring baby book home

There is a lot that parents-to-be want to know about parenthood and baby book guides are the best way to get the required knowledge. You will eventually have to buy such books, isn’t it better to buy one and keep it somewhere in your house where your partner catches its glance? Leave them puzzled and let them guess.

• Say it with a cake

Cakes are one of the best ways to announce and celebrate your pregnancy. Order a customised cake from a bakery and get all the frostings done properly, prefer some baby-related frosting, you can even explore a bit on Pinterest. 

• Buy a baby lounger

In the first several months of a baby's existence, many parents find baby loungers to be a useful accessories. When your baby is awake, these give you a soft spot to set them down, which can be very useful if you are recovering from a c-section. Hence, these are a good investment and it makes all the sense to buy them in advance. 

Again, you can keep the lounger in your bedroom and when your husband will back from work, they will definitely be surprised. 

• Buy tiny shoes

We all will agree that cute little baby shoes make us go “aww” and yes you got it right, we are suggesting you buy cute baby shoes to announce your pregnancy. 

Keep the shoes beside your partner’s shoes before he goes to work in the morning, or place them in the shoe compartment to surprise him with the news.

• Sonogram photo frame

The first image from your ultrasound is the sweetest way to tell the family you are going to have a baby. This idea could be used for announcing your pregnancy to your grandparents, aunts and uncles, and basically, your relatives because there are several different photo frame options available for purchase.

• Doodle on your belly

You can write “coming soon” on your belly and find a way to show it to your partner so that the element of surprise does not get affected. 

• Pregnancy cravings 

Make it clear that you're consuming stereotypical pregnancy hunger items while interacting with your family and friends—the weirder, the better! You can eat tangy and sour imli pops, or just show excessive cravings for different food items.

You will love to see everyone’s confused faces once you do this. 

• Solve a puzzle

Pregnancy announcement puzzles are one of the most fun ways of breaking the news to your partner. You can buy these puzzles online and ask your partner to solve them with you. 

• Customised coffee mug

You can gift your partner a customised coffee mug that says something like father-to-be and thus breaks the news of your pregnancy to him.

Likewise, you can get customised coffee mugs for the grandparents-to-be as well.

• Fortune cookies

Get fortune cookies from a neighbourhood bakery, and give them a few strips of paper with your news written on them. And then, give the cookies to your family and friends on get-together night.

• Announce on social media

If you have already told your loved ones about your pregnancy and want to break the news to your social circle, what could be better than posting on social media?

You can get the pregnancy photoshoot done wearing elegant gowns and post the pictures with a subtle caption.

•  Gift box

Get a good wooden or cardboard box and put some items like baby clothes, shoes, or anything that indicates that the baby is on its way. Wrap it up and gift it to your partner and surprise him with the news.

Summing Up 

A pregnancy announcement is not a difficult task but everyone wants to make it memorable. We know that you do too, and we hope that these ideas have helped you. 

And now that you have access to some excellent ideas, we hope that you successfully surprise everyone with the news. 

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