new title -- last week for BIRTH ANNOC EXCHANGE sign up

[Momma Aimee]

PLEASE SEE POST 38 ---






i was thinking last night in bed, about posting this, then today i see the post of birth announcment idea and i know i much be on the right wave lenght.

Would anyone be intrested in shareing / enchanging birth annoncements?

I do not kow any MDC rules about this -- i do not THINK it would apply to the SWAP stuff.

IF people decided they were intrested ... everyone could PM me their mailing address and e-mail. I wuld make a list, and on a decided on cut off e-mail out the list of addresses ....

I kinda though as attached as i am getting to some of the babies around here it might be nice to have the annuonments from all over the country to save for this baby -- so some day i can tell him or her " there are all the babies who's momma i was in a pregancy support group with when i was expecting you"

I know i am cornry ....

if you all think i am a flake , that is fine

but would anyone be intrested in talking about something liek this?

AImee

[kathteach]

I think it's a great idea and I would love to be in on it.

[yogachick79]

I too would LOVE to do something like that. Even though this is our 3rd, this is the first time I've gotten to have other pregnant women "around" me

[Momma Aimee]

i know i am werid -- but i thought someday a child, espcailly a girl, might find it cool to see babies from all over the country that were the baies of the moms i connected with -- yk?

plus i LOVE baby pictures and all the creative announcements and all the diffent sizes and so on .....

[renaissanceed]

Aimee I think that is a great idea! I would love something like that for Sprig to look at when he/she is older and wants to know about other little ones born at the same time. And since I'm not planning on creating them by hand as I did last time, I can certainly swing making more announcements.

Count me in.

[Curlita]

I'm in, too. Great idea!

[scheelimama]

Okay, while I'm not saying for sure I wouldn't do this, thinking practically...

I already have a lot of Christmas cards and birth announcements to mail to family/friends (over 30 for sure) and the postage will be costly. Add to that another maybe 30 birth announcements for you all (and especially if we are having them done professional, there's extra expense for having more printed as well as quite a bit more postage), plus all the Christmas gifts I'll have to do. And I'll have to address all the envelopes by hand, with no help from dh since he won't be here. Just don't really see it happening financially or otherwise.

I hate to be the negative one here. Sorry.

It is a really neat idea though Aimee.

[pixiesmommy]

I guess I'm weird like this, but I don't see the point of a birth announcement. I've only ever gotten maybe one and I hardly knew the person. It seemed very weird to me since I had never in my life seen or heard of one before. I see them all of the time in my midwife's office all over the walls now.

When I had Pixie, everyone I was close to knew I had her. I guess I'm a freak.... I never would have thought of printing out something about her to send to people! :

[monocyte]

I'm in!!

[Momma Aimee]

i might be the odd ball.

I have all my newphew, and one litle neices, accouncemnts framed and hung together.

DH has such a huge extended family -- his dad was one of 12 -- that i find it easyer to do a press release as DH calls them than have to write about it over and over and oaver again in christmas cards or whatever.... and there is Heck to pay if someone doesn't hear when the others hear : so i find it easier to do than not do and worry or have to call so many poeople or tell the same thing over and over and over again.

And my 8 yo newphe things it is funny to see HIS birth annoumcment (his was actually done at one year due to a NIUC stay) hanging with all the other kids .... "Wow I was little too"

So ladies, when shoudl we call our cut off -- when should i e-mail out the list of addresses of moms who want to praticpate? Mid-Oct?

(and might i suggest that moms write their screen name on teh back or someplace too ?? just to help make the connections?) .. ???

Aimee

[AimeeandBrian]

I think its an awesome idea depending on how expensive our annoucements end up being.
I like announcements because I can send them to the women my mom wanted me to invite to the shower, but I refused. This way they can still feel acknowledged without me having to hang out with them

[mittendrin]

I'm in, great idea!

[Momma Aimee]

I like announcements because I can send them to the women my mom wanted me to invite to the shower, but I refused. This way they can still feel acknowledged without me having to hang out with them

extended family -- mom and dad's freinds -- professional contacts for DH .. the list goes on and on .... people who should know, who will be hurt not to know, but come one -- they are not all coming over to see the baby and i am not hand wrtting that many cards or making that many calls.

We live in teh middle of Iowa -- we have people in PR and China and all over the US .... jsut easier

and i like to frame them.

[Valerieg]

This is a great idea...but we don't do birth announcements either. *shrug* DH's immediate family alone is enormous and then you get into extended family and we'd be spending a fortune.

I am however including this LO in our Christmas picture (of course) which we send on our Christmas cards every year. But last year I sent out 176.

So I'd have to opt out. But this is a great idea. My Oct 05 mommies from another board are all still connected through a forum. It has been neat to see the babies grow up and new siblings being born.

[Mama Bear]

I'm interested - though maybe emailing it as an image or something would make more sense?

[Valerieg]

Ooooh...email or online would be great for me too!

I did this when I had DD. I posted my birth story and pics.

[Heather Marie]

I am in!

[Da WIC Lady]

Originally Posted by Mama Bear

I'm interested - though maybe emailing it as an image or something would make more sense?

: It would save on postage for sure. I was thinking on putting one up on my LiveJournal... not that I really use it much for anything beyond movie night announcements and checking up on what's going on in the world of my single or childless friends. I'm so lazy when it comes to mailing things out that I go ahead and pay the extra $1 to pay my bills at the grocery store. I surprised myself by mailing out two care packages to DH when he was deployed for 4 months in time for them to get to him while he was still on the ship even... I might even do a broadcast e-mail announcement to everyone in my address book.

If we have an e-mail option, count me in.

Anna

[Curlita]

Hmm, I hadn't thought about the extra expense... I wonder if there is somewhere online we could create a collective gallery. It would be fun to see all our babes in one place.

I'm still up for the birth announcement swap, though. At this point we will probably have extra, since we have something like 55 people to send to and they come in multiples of 25.

[sorteep]

I'm in,, we did it with my DDC with Evan and about 12 or 15 of us still correpond via msg board daily and many of us have met in person over the yrs!! (I have met two mwmbers so far) a group even went to Disney together this xmas!! (not that that is a goal just sharing past DDC experience)

anyway, count me in..