Pregnancy Announcements to Announce Your Pregnancy!

Having a baby is a life-changing experience but so if finding out that you are expecting. Whether you've been accidentally blessed with good news or you've been trying for a while to conceive, you may be thinking about sending out Pregnancy Announcements so others can share in your amazing news. It is a good idea to think ahead and use the same theme for your Birth Announcements after the baby is born.

Cost of the Pregnancy Announcement

As you may imagine, a maternity announcement is not going to be a cheap purchase. You'll need to pay for enough to send to everyone you know and postage costs alone could cost a fortune. In less than a year, you'll be repeating the entire process again to send out Baby Announcements once your new family member has officially arrived. While you may be very excited about the news and may want to make a formal announcement like this, if your budget is already tight then you may want to skip this idea. Of course, you can still let people know via email and telephone call, but more and more new moms are choosing to send baby birth announcements. You could even write a note to some of your distant friends and family if you want.

Maternity Announcements & Timing

If you do decide to send these announcements, you may want to wait a little while before you mail them. The reason is sometimes pregnant women have complications which could cause them to lose the baby during that first trimester without warning. While it's not a pleasant thing to think about, it's a good reason to hold off on too much celebration until you're sure that everything is going well. The best advice on timing then is to mail the announcements after you pass the 13th week on your pregnancy calendar. If your doctor gives you the green light at that point, you can drop all of those cards into the mailbox with a happy heart.

Unique Pregnancy Announcements: Ideas

We've all heard of people including photos of their newborn children on their birth cards so why can't women who are pregnant do something similar? The answer is they can by using an image from one of their ultrasounds. Just like any other photo birth announcements, the image can be scanned into a computer and duplicated onto the announcements so that when people receive them they can get a preview of this bundle of joy growing inside you.

If you don't like the idea of using your ultrasound pictures, why not have a photograph taken of you and your partner. If you're already showing a little, that's great because it will look great in the images you can use for the pregnancy announcements. Plus, you'll always have something you can show your child when he or she grows up. You can point to your blossoming stomach and tell your little one that's where he or she is in the photo.