Our Pregnancy Announcement

When we were ready to tell the world about the little person swimming in my belly, we knew we wanted to do it differently. Many friends of mine had either sent out a group SMS, posted a Facebook status, or put up a photo of their ultrasound. That just wasn't for us. First of all, having a baby is that LAST thing everyone expected us to do, so I was after something with some shock value! Second of all, we really want to try to instill as much creativity and humour in our child as we can, and why not get started before bub is even born?

We ran through a number of ideas before we decided to create a movie poster. We had come to fondly nickname the little one "The Thingy", and there was something of a horror movie feel about it - "The Thingy is coming!!!" was a bit of a catch cry for us in the early days! So, based on a few conversations with the people we had already told (and had absolutely sworn to secrecy!) we came up with a few lolz to sum up how we felt about everything at the time, and get the message across in a very box office fashion. Here's what we came up with:

Interestingly enough, some people took a minute to get the message - one friend, upon seeing the poster and being told it was our big news, exclaimed "Wow! You guys are in a movie??!". So, we sent it out to our friends and extended family with a little handwritten note explaining what we were up to and how excited we were. We worked through a long list of people that we wanted to tell in person, only sending letters to a few people a week and making them promise not to say a word to anyone. The best part was receiving a few new phone calls each week to say 'congratulations', instead of being bombarded with them all on the one evening!

Once we were exhausted with writing and posting letters (that kept us busy up until 20 weeks!) we finally did the big Facebook reveal and uploaded the picture to both of our pages. I definitely recommend this approach for everyone - it's great to know our 'thingy' poster has made it onto the fridges of our loved ones everywhere, and the poster is proudly displayed in our little one's room, ready and waiting for it's arrival!