1st: Pregnancy Announcement

With my first, I didn't know anything about charting or when to take OPKs. I had no idea when to test for pregnancy or what brands to use. I remember taking one and it being negative. Probably, because I took it too early and didn't have an early detection test. Then took one the following week when my period was late (around 5 weeks pregnant) and got a positive test.

As soon as I saw the 2 lines, I ran from the bathroom, banged on the door to the room DH was in. Then I shouted for DH to come look and quickly ran back to the bathroom where I showed him the test and said something along the lines of I wasn't sure and what do you think? I was so excited! I called my family right away and shared.

We really didn't do anything special to announce it. We were pretty straight forward with telling people. I don't think I had found pinterest yet or heard about people doing special things for pregnancy announcements and gender reveals. Later for DD's baby book, I went back created annoucements. I would find a picture or style to copy. Then I made the pages on word document, played around with fonts, snipping tool, and online graphics to decorate.

Last Edited: March 10, 2019

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