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JadeC 
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 Posted: 08 August 2011 at 5:47pm |
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Nothing exciting here, but one thing I want to do next time is to use a cake to announce the sex! I read somewhere about someone baking a cake, colouring it blue or pink, then icing the whole lot so it can't be seen. Then cutting with with friends/family to announce whether its a girl or a boy!
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Hopes
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Posted: 08 August 2011 at 5:53pm |
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Yea, I've heard in America the craze is to get the scanner to write the sex on a piece of paper in an envelope, and give it to the bakery, so that even the parents don't know what colour they're expecting the cake to be when they cut it. Kind of fun!
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Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:26pm |
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We were at a family dinner for our Nans birthday and hubby got up to announce that we were pregnant, our extended family are pretty excitable and there was screaming, tears and hugs all around, priceless :)
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MamaT
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Posted: 08 August 2011 at 8:23pm |
First time round we just told the family straight out.
This time, I made a t-shirt like the one Hopes has posted and put it on DS.
It took DH a while to get it.
We emailed a pic of DS in it to the IL's, they got it pretty much straight away.
I put DS in it when my parents were down and it took about half an hour for them to actually read it 
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Keleho
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Posted: 08 August 2011 at 8:38pm |
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First time round we just told immediate family and close friends. My best friend happened to be having a birthday so her card was written from me, DH and bump. She screamed...still a little bit deaf.
This time round I gave my mum a positive pg test for mothers day, 20 minutes after confirming it for myself (would have been sooner but was waiting for DH to get home to tell him first). Also gave my sisters a pregnancy test in an envelope telling them Id got them a present. One sister guessed before even opening it!
Everyone else was just told - boring!
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Daizy
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Posted: 08 August 2011 at 9:17pm |
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I never did anything creative.. I think both times I was in a bit of shock.
If there ever were to be another one I would totally have to paint something on my belly, like a tiny wee baby growing inside...
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BabySurprise
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Posted: 26 August 2011 at 4:18pm |
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awsome ideas
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EmDee
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Posted: 26 August 2011 at 5:12pm |
 Daizy wrote:
I never did anything creative.. I think both times I was in a bit of shock.
If there ever were to be another one I would totally have to paint something on my belly, like a tiny wee baby growing inside... |
What a great idea! And so very you
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EmDee
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Posted: 26 August 2011 at 5:13pm |
JadeC wrote:
Nothing exciting here, but one thing I want to do next time is to use a cake to announce the sex! I read somewhere about someone baking a cake, colouring it blue or pink, then icing the whole lot so it can't be seen. Then cutting with with friends/family to announce whether its a girl or a boy! |
Also a great idea!
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Blankney94
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Posted: 28 August 2011 at 11:04pm |
I did a sneaky test at work, once I got to Day 31 of my cycle. Didn't tell DH but did a second test and let him watch the result (me already knowing - I know naughty!)
Dad was about to build us a new house - we told Mum and Dad we were going to have an extra occupant for the house. Took them a little while to click.
Love the cake idea!
Also my Mum and Dad are having their 40th wedding anniversary soon. If I can get UTD before then, I might put in the newspaper - "Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary, love from Sarah, Craig, Brooke, and Gus II." (Gus was the nickname for our first bump!)
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TheBabe
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Posted: 29 August 2011 at 2:03pm |
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Lol Sarah that would be so cool!!! These are all good ideas!
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SammyA
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Posted: 29 August 2011 at 9:17pm |
I remember after showing my DH the positive test of the baby we miscarried, he went pale and said "two lines- is that twins???". My poor hubby didn't have a clue how pregnancy tests worked 
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cool ways to announce pregnancy
