5 Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy

Whether you are expecting your first, second or third child, you are probably wanting a creative way to announce your pregnancy to friends and family. If you don't want to simply start dialing numbers and telling everyone over the phone, then check out some of the creative ways to announce your pregnancy below.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: CD of Lullabies

Seems that everyone loves to sing to babies, especially when trying to get them to sleep, so sending out a CD of lullabies to friends and family with an announcement after the first song that you are expecting is a great creative way to announce your pregnancy. In order to make this announcement work you will need to be able to record your voice announcement onto your computer so that you can burn it onto the CDs, you will also need a subscription to iTunes or some other music gallery so that you can purchase children's songs, and of course you will need blank CDs and a computer with the ability to burn them. Once you have burned the CDs you can write on the front of them, "Put this CD in your CD player and listen carefully," so that you can be sure that everyone hears the news.

Creative Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy: Video Tape or DVD of First Heartbeat Sonogram

Why not share that amazing moment when you hear your baby's heartbeat for the first time with your friends and family. When you go to the doctor's appointment for the first sonogram where you expect to hear the heartbeat take a video recorder with you and capture all the excitement, and of course the heartbeat. If you have the right programs on your computer to turn this creative way to announce your pregnancy into a fully edited DVD then you can add special effects, music, or anything else you may want to. If you don't have that kind of programming on your computer, then simply making copies of the original recording will work just fine. Make sure that you send a note with the DVDs or tapes to make sure that everyone who receives one watches it immediately so no one misses out on the news.

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