Creative ways to tell future grandparents that you are pregnant?

[chloee42]

Hi everyone, TTC at the moment but just wanting any ideas of things you have done in the past or things you have heard people do to announce that you are pregnant.

Also, did you/will you wait until the 12 week mark to tell or reveal early? :rolleyes:

This will be my parent's 2nd grandchild so I want to make it special when the time comes.

Feel free to share any ideas. :yelclap:

[peanutbutter&jelly]

We coincidentally told my inlaws the same day as BIL & his GF told them :D We were 10 weeks at the time I think. This time, I ummm... had an emotional outburst and yelled at DF while he was on the phone to his mother & then told my mum on the way to my DS' birthday party. Nothing special, just simple and enough :)

[mumto2puddles]

we just told... didn't bother about waiting and did't do anything creative but I do know of peole who hae gien futur grandparents a carwith an US picture on it or a card to the grndpaents etc etc.

We've had 2 unplanned pregnancies so we've just said 'oh yeah XX is pregnant' and with our only planned pregnancy, ILs were having tea at our place when PdOAS so they heard DH and I gigling and laughing so we spilled then too......


Good luck with TTCing and decidng how to tell.....

[1983Bella]

When I finally do fall pregnant I will be giving a copy of the first u/s pic to the grandparents along with a note saying "Meet your first grandchild". I just hope that I can hold out that long. Otherwise I will have to find another way of telling them.

[Dreambeliever]

a friend of mine gave her parents and the in-laws a "brag book". basically a cute little baby photo album for them to put baby photos in. seemed to go down well. :yes:
maybe you could buy one of those little baby t-shirts that says "when the going gets tough, im going to nanna's" or something along those lines. grandparents seem to love those shirts.
we didnt do anything special. my mum knew before i did. (she takes that whole mothers intuition thing to a whole other level :rolleyes:). and my mother in law almost died of shock when we told her. :laughing: she got over it though.

[BabyDreaming]

I realized yesterday that I can't keep secrets.

I told my sisters that DP was buying me a bunny next Saturday. I managed to keep it a secret for 3 days lol.
They were not impressed lol.

I doubt they would be impressed if I told them I was pg aswell as I am only sort of young and they have no idea we are ttc. Plus my older sister is the sort of person that thinks just because she is the eldest, she should have kids first :rolleyes:


A few weeks ago I bought a unisex baby jumpsuit that had "I love mummy" and "I love daddy" written all over it. I would wrap that up in plain wrapping paper with a congrats card and give it to DP, but my oldies...I'm not so sure how I would tell lol

Maybe you could do it the way I just described but with one of those " I love nanna" shirts like dreambeliever mentioned?

[bumblytumbly]

We kept it a secret until after our 12 week scan.
For my parents (they had been away on holiday) we framed the 12 week scan pic and put in on the bench with a "Welcome home Grandma and Grandpa - See you in May" sign attached to it.
For DH's parents we gave them a framed scan picture as well. But we wrapped it up and said it was a souvenier from my parents holiday.

[Silver_Lining]

When my MIL was down from QLD last she bought a particular bottle of wine to take home with her. Her and FIL absolutely love this wine but can't buy it up there.
When she bought it she said she was going to keep it as a celebration wine-hinting that she will drink it when we have an announcement. Well since then her daughter fell pregnant so she drank it then.
Soooooo..... we will be sending her up a bottle of that with a cute little card attached with something quirky written on it! :) I'm only sad I won't get to see their faces!

The other idea we had was to send them a 'congratulations on becoming a grandparent card' like a Hallmark one. They would be confused as to why they were receiving it but then you could write something inside like "congrats on becoming a grandparent to the newest member of the -- family" or something like that :thumbsup:

[Silver_Lining]

We kept it a secret until after our 12 week scan.
For my parents (they had been away on holiday) we framed the 12 week scan pic and put in on the bench with a "Welcome home Grandma and Grandpa - See you in May" sign attached to it.
For DH's parents we gave them a framed scan picture as well. But we wrapped it up and said it was a souvenier from my parents holiday.


That is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! What a beautiful way to tell them :cloud9:

[shaz77]

we found out we were pregnant with the first grandchild on DH side on Christmas Eve so we gave his parents a present each - for his mum - Nana's brag book and for his dad a 0000 t shirt that said "my granddad loves me". It took a minute to sink in but then the reaction was priceless. With our second pregnancy they had just spent the day minding DS and were exhausted when we got back. DH commented "How are you going to go with 2?" It just slipped out! we were going to wait for a scan but didn't happen. With no. 3 (if we get there) I'm planning on not telling people, just wait for them to notice a bump!! DH joked about "liking little ones" at my DD 2nd birthday and his mum (almost screamed) "DON'T YOU DARE!!!" so I don't think they'll be thrilled with the news!

[clm1982]

I was 6 weeks on christmas day so we decided to tell them. We bought a little outfit which had the babise due date on it and wrapped it up as a christmas present, they loved it!

[WorkingClassMum]

My neighbour went to her IL's yesterday for lunch, and asked to see the baby albums for her DH.

She then said to her MIL - "Wow I hope that our baby will look like that - I suppose we'll all know by Christmas?"

[sockstealingpoltergeist]

Tell them it's really wierd, but you have a magic camera that can see the future.

Take a photo of you with a pillow up your shirt, and then one of each of you with a baby doll in your arms. Then say "that is 7 months into the future, and that is 8 mon ths into the future, weird hey?"

[bgbgbb]

I usually told the grandparents about 6-8 weeks. I figured if something bad happened they would be supportive and understanding.

I generally blamed it on my husband and told everyone that "he caused it-it's his fault!" The fact that he is Irish and Catholic makes this quite believable!