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SmileDamnit

All of our friends and family love Gus so we used him in our announcement. Zero apologies and zero regrets.

CMGragain

Traditionally, announcing a pregnancy was taboo.  I guess it made sense, because something could go wrong.  This is one are where etiquette seems to be changing.
Congratulations!   Best wishes!  Babies - oooooh, squeeee!

(I really HATE the phrase "knocked up".)

FiancB

ShesSoCold said:

Just make sure you don't use the word "lady" when announcing the sex of the baby. 

Gee whillikers, things sure are more pleasant around here now that the meanies aren't around and can't make posts directed at certain members or anything like that. 

I usually like announcements. I get excited for babies. You do you. We'll probably involve our dog somehow, sorrynotsorry. 

lovesclimbing

Pee sticks, no, prego, no.  I don't mind ultrasound pictures. 

Someone announced they were having a boy and took a sideview photo of her in a blue shirt and the letters "oy."  So with the sideview, her bump and boobs formed the letter B.  I thought that one was weird.  It just kind of felt like it was drawing too much attention to her boobs.

novella1186

CMGragain said:

Traditionally, announcing a pregnancy was taboo.  I guess it made sense, because something could go wrong.  This is one are where etiquette seems to be changing.
Congratulations!   Best wishes!  Babies - oooooh, squeeee!

(I really HATE the phrase "knocked up".)

In Jewish tradition it was wrong to have a baby shower, because it's too presumptuous to assume that the baby is going to be born healthy. It was a pretty heavy superstition. Like, if you're ballsy enough to make that presumption, you might be jinxing/cursing the baby. Or at least that's how my grandma explained it. These days, though, people don't really stick to that anymore. 

Bubblegum5586

novella1186 said:

CMGragain said:

Traditionally, announcing a pregnancy was taboo.  I guess it made sense, because something could go wrong.  This is one are where etiquette seems to be changing.
Congratulations!   Best wishes!  Babies - oooooh, squeeee!

(I really HATE the phrase "knocked up".)

In Jewish tradition it was wrong to have a baby shower, because it's too presumptuous to assume that the baby is going to be born healthy. It was a pretty heavy superstition. Like, if you're ballsy enough to make that presumption, you might be jinxing/cursing the baby. Or at least that's how my grandma explained it. These days, though, people don't really stick to that anymore. 

That is because Jewish traditions date back over 6000 years ago hence why most of them seem outdated. I imagine in biblical days and even up to a hundred years ago without modern medicine.... you couldn't know if your baby was healthy until it was born. Now they can know so much ahead of time.

FiancB

Isn't Jewish tradition kind of superstitious about that kind of thing anyway? Like isn't it really bad to name someone after someone that's still alive? 

novella1186

FiancB said:

Isn't Jewish tradition kind of superstitious about that kind of thing anyway? Like isn't it really bad to name someone after someone that's still alive? 

Yep. If you name the baby after a living relative, the angel of death will get confused and take the wrong person. There's a TON of superstitions for Jews. And yeah they date back super far because Judaism has been around for quite a while, but some people still follow these traditions and don't really think of them as outdated (although they're not as common). My mom didn't have a baby shower for my sister or I, because of what I mentioned above. 

ohmrs2014

I love reading about different cultures and their traditions/superstitions.  Both of those reasonings make perfect sense, regarding baby naming and baby showers.  I never really thought of it like that before.

sarahufl

novella1186 said:

FiancB said:

Isn't Jewish tradition kind of superstitious about that kind of thing anyway? Like isn't it really bad to name someone after someone that's still alive? 

Yep. If you name the baby after a living relative, the angel of death will get confused and take the wrong person. There's a TON of superstitions for Jews. And yeah they date back super far because Judaism has been around for quite a while, but some people still follow these traditions and don't really think of them as outdated (although they're not as common). My mom didn't have a baby shower for my sister or I, because of what I mentioned above. 

My sister's husbands' grandma didn't go to any of the 3 showers that were thrown for my sister because of this.

VulgarGirl

ShesSoCold said:

Just make sure you don't use the word "lady" when announcing the sex of the baby. 

You're just so fucking hiliarious. I mean really. So. Funny. My sides. They ache. 

Because my entire point on that thread was that the word lady in of itself was the problem and not rather the comparative between a "lady" and a "little man" since lady carries connotations of being sweet and cute and quiet. While a little man is strong and tough and manly. Nope that's not what I was saying. Just that the word lady was bad.

themuffinman16

My sister put shoes on the stairs.  Her husbands shoes, her shoes, my nieces shoes, my nephew's shoes and little pink booties, with a sign that said coming soon in summer of 2014.  I thought that was cute without being eye roll worthy/  I love little baby shoes!

melbenso

A friend from college just recently announced on Facebook that he and his wife were having a baby.  She is also about 6 months along.  I already knew - as did all of their close friends and family.  So my first suggestion would be to make sure that anyone who you would want to make this announcement to personally already knows. 

After that, I agree with the many PP who suggested something to the effect of "DH and I are super excited to welcome our first child in September."

I did have a friend whose second baby announcement via Facebook was a video of her asking their three year old at dinner: "What's in Daddy's belly?" "A cheeseburger!" "What's in your belly?" "A cheeseburger!" "What's in mommy's belly?" "A baby!"  It was super cute.  But since this appears to be your first baby (or not, maybe I am assuming too much) that wouldn't work.