There are many creative ways to announce a twin pregnancy. Since most of your friends and family won’t be expecting the surprise news that you are having twins, you can have some fun when you announce you’re expecting twins.
While you’ll find many creative ways to announce a pregnancy by searching online, most are relevant to singleton babies.
Let me share with you how we announced our twins to our family and hopefully that will help get your creative juices flowing.
We bought two little identical picture frames that hold wallet size photos.
For each picture frame, we printed off a picture of baby feet.
In the first frame, we put the words: “Save this space for me” over the picture.
In the second frame, we had the words: “And me too”.
We wrapped both frames up together as a gift and gave them to the grandparents. Since we found out we were having twins on Christmas Eve, a gift wasn’t an unusual thing to receive. However, if you want to announce your twins some other time, the gift idea will still work. Everyone loves to get a present!
When the grandparents unwrapped the gift, the first impression was always “oh, what beautiful picture frames!”
Then they read the words and realized we were announcing our pregnancy. They asked “are you pregnant?” Their happy response was brief as they tried to mentally process why they were holding two picture frames.
After a brief pause as they figured out the second picture frame, their faces turned to expressions of shock. “You’re having twins?!”
It was a fun process to watch as the grandparents slowly uncovered the announcement of our twin pregnancy.
Remember, when you announce your twin pregnancy that people will be completely shocked. Enjoy the moment and plan your creative way to announce the pregnancy so you can have great memories of the announcement.
If you’ve already announced your twin pregnancy, what creative ways did you use? How was the announcement received?
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My wife and I are big users of Facebook so we announced with the same status at the same time! We had so much fun seeing who was the first to comment and how may total like each other got!
@David – simultaneous Facebook announcements – very clever. I particularly like the little competition you both had.
My sister had (fraternal) twins a couple of years ago – a little boy and a little girl. She decided to tell everyone in the family separatly and I loved the way she told me. I have a rock garden (it’s a sentimental thing to me) in my backyard and she asked me to take a walk with her. When we got the the garden she pointed out two new stones by the water’s edge. One was painted pink and the other blue. They are necklaced with a binky. I asked her if she was having twins and she smiled estatically.
I was the first one she told (besides her husband) and we had fun thinking of random ways to tell the relatives.
@Angel – that is a great story and a very unique and personalized way your sister let you know she was having twins. Thanks for sharing this!