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Congratulations on your baby’s birth! Now there’s just the small matter of properly spreading the wonderful news. We have collected some ideas for the text and design of your birth announcement message. There is a wide variety of ideas suitable for any birth announcement template, so take what suits you.
Welcome grandson.
You’ve worked out what you want to say, but how are you going to share it? Your birth announcement message should reflect the joy of this wonderful event. This is a deeply personal moment, and so too should be your message. Here are some ideas on how to design the wording and present the announcement:
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By Jenny Studenroth Gerson
Just had a baby? YAY! This is a beautiful time…and an exhausting time.
Sharing the news of your little one’s arrival is high on the list of important things, because friends and family are eagerly awaiting the news. And who doesn’t want to show off their precious new addition?
But after delivery, and with the first several hours or days of sleeplessness, you might be lacking in creative ideas to caption your baby’s first photo. If you’re looking for cute, heartfelt, or sentimental ways to announce your baby’s birth, look no further than our convenient list of the best wording for a baby announcement on social media.
Any of the catchy phrasing on this list can be followed by “Welcoming—” or other short and simple wording to include Baby’s name, birth stats, and additional details. Get the big siblings involved, make it all about the little one, or include a bit of humor if you’re up for it. This is a big moment, but it doesn’t have to wear you out. Here are all our favorite ways to share your baby’s birth.
All that matters is that friends, family, and followers get to see that sweet face or learn the little one’s name.
If you’re not up for being too wordy, these very basic baby announcement photo captions will do the trick. Pair with a photograph (if you’re planning to share Baby’s face with the world) and/or the arrival date and info and leave it at that. Easy peasy!
If you’d like to add a little flourish, you can caption your baby’s birth announcement with some sweet and sentimental language. You can be emotive without knocking out a paragraph. Keep it brief and authentic, including a photo and/or stats below. Facebook also handily has “feeling” tags you can include to take even more of the guesswork out; a quick browse and selection from that list paired with some of this wording is all you need to make your baby’s announcement emotional and lovely.
For the more religious parents or those looking for a spiritual/connectedness angle, these simple captions will do the trick. Start with this wording, and then add “proudly presenting,” “welcome to the family, [Name]” or another simple introduction right after.
Team green babies have some of the most anticipated announcements, because not only are friends and family waiting on a name and photo, but they’re dying to know if you’re having a boy or girl. There are so many creative ways to share your team-green baby news, and it quite simply can involve just an image of your child in a pink or blue outfit. These easy caption ideas make posting your baby news even easier, when letting everyone in on the exciting news.
Welcome baby #2-plus to the family? Get the proud big brother(s) or sister(s) in on sharing the news with sweet verbiage from their perspective.
These can be super simple or more wordy; you can even add a quote or a genuine reaction from your older child for laughs. Or, stick with one of these adorable older sibling announcement lines:
Announcing your baby’s birth at a special time of year? Hint: It’s always a special time of year. These seasonal and holiday caption ideas will help you creatively announce your Fall, Winter, Spring, or Summer baby.
Funny birth announcement ideas are perfect for the parent or parents who lean into humor for the big and small moments. Get a chuckle out of friends and loved ones when you share your baby’s birth with one of these cute and funny captions.
If your baby arrived early, the news will come as a shock to many. Let everyone in on the joy with a sweet introduction for that tiny babe who just couldn’t wait any longer to make their appearance.
On the flip side, if you went over 40 weeks, you know everyone in your circle has been waiting on pins and needles for the news. These cute caption ideas are designed for those babies who just didn’t want to leave the warmth and comfort of the inside in a timely manner.
At this sentimental and special moment, you might want to introduce your little one with a beautiful quote. Especially if you can’t quite find the words through the delirium, here are some lovely words to encapsulate a range of feelings at the birth of your baby—the very start of their childhood! One of these paired with a photo or just their name is a perfect way to share the news of your baby’s birth.
” —Terri GuillemetsEvery birth is a big deal, but when more than one baby is born at once, the news just seems even–well–bigger! If you’re welcoming two or more babies, play up the twin/triplet angle with an adorable announcement that tugs at everyone’s heartstrings, makes a funny statement, or simply lets the world know your hearts are very, very full.
Jenny Studenroth Gerson is an Atlanta-based lifestyle journalist and novelist (Let Me Let You Go, 2020).
Her work can be seen in publications including HuffPost, Cosmo, and WSJ, among many others. Jenny has researched thousands of baby names, combed through hundreds of nursery designs, and curated dozens of baby shower guides, making her absolutely the mom—and writer—you want to talk to when planning for Baby. When not meeting deadlines, she is chasing toddlers or chugging coffee—or both! Find her on Instagram @ourlifeinrosegold for mom hacks and more.
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Those of you who have children (or are planning to in the near future) have probably faced the task of collecting and distributing photo/video content about a newborn — grandparents and parents on business trips rightly demand to keep them informed about what is happening.
In this article I will share my experience in solving this problem and dwell in detail on the specifics of privacy settings in facebook*.
Based on the requirements, it becomes clear that the cloud will help us, it remains only to choose the appropriate service. Among the ones I reviewed were Path, Google+, Picassa, Flickr, and Facebook*.
As the title of this article suggests, I chose Facebook* and I'm happy with it. However, the setting of many options turned out to be not too obvious, so I will dwell on them in more detail.
I will say in advance that it is most convenient to perform all actions with an account on behalf of an individual user in Google Chrome. If you don't want to spend time setting it up, you can open an anonymous window (Command+Shift+N), but in this case, you will need to log in every time you log in.
1. First you need to register a separate email. With this, I think everyone can handle it. I recommend immediately setting up a redirect from it to your personal mailbox.
2. Facebook* does not allow registration of a user under the age of 13. So I pointed to 20 years more. Theoretically, you can submit a request to set any date, but what happens next is not exactly known, and I decided not to experiment. So that the year does not confuse anyone, on the profile editing page you can set the display of only the day and month of birth.
3. If you wish, you can also specify the name of the page, after which the page will be available at
The correct privacy settings are above all, otherwise dad runs the risk of getting mum. Be careful with each of the items:
Open Privacy Settings and:
1. Limit the visibility of basic information only for friends.
2. Set the Profile and Tagging settings.
Please note : even if you set the content visibility only for friends, but then tag one of the friends in the photo (or confirm their tag), then this photo will become available to the friends of the tagged one. For example: if you mark a dad in a photo under a newborn's account, then this photo will become available for viewing by dad's friends. And it will be visible only after the next opening of the window.
If you really want, you can first mark someone in the photo, and then go to the photo privacy settings and set the custom mode. The checkbox "show photos to friends" of the one you tagged must be unchecked:
You can see who can view the photo in the upper right corner of the page with the photo in full size:
3. Add friends.
Those who will be added as friends will be able to view the content on the page we created. Relationships can be specified if desired. Remember to limit the display of this information to friends only:
Now you can add photos, text and videos to the created page.
You can do this in four ways:
1. from a desktop computer;
2. using the facebook* mobile application on a phone or tablet;
3. using a third-party mobile application with automatic export to facebook*
4. by sending to a special email.
In my experience, photos are the most commonly added. They are made from the phone, so it is most convenient to use the application or email.
Since the penetration of iPhones among the relatives of the hero of this article is 62.5% (and 100% along the father's line), the examples below will be for the iPhone. I'm sure other platforms have something similar.
Path, the only sensible application found that exports to facebook*, didn't fit, because it takes a long time to import content to facebook* through it, and sometimes the video doesn't get there at all. In addition, in the feed, messages added via Path are often hidden in the feed of subscribers.
The official facebook* apps for iPhone/iPad currently do not allow you to add multiple photos at once.
You can use the free PhotoUp+, which solves this problem, but the main inconvenience remains - the inability to send multiple photos in the background. You have to wait until all the photos are loaded, which is especially inconvenient with mobile Internet.
As a result, it turned out to be the most convenient and fastest way to add photos by sending them to a special email (this happens in the background). There are a lot of instructions on the Internet that you need to go to the page under your account, and you will see a special personalized email. In fact, links to facebook* mobile applications have already been published on this page, and the email we need is on the page. You need to open it under your child's account:
Email cannot be called mnemonic, so we add it to the phone's address book and, as a result, we get the opportunity to add content to facebook * in a couple of clicks.
The subject of the email will be used as a comment on the photo. The text from the body of the email will be ignored.
You can send both photos and videos, but a large video will not be added (the exact size is not set).
Note : Anything sent to this address (from any address) will be published. Therefore, only share this email with people you trust to add new content on behalf of your child.
It remains to make sure that the involved relatives quickly learn about the publications on the wall of a new facebook user*. To do this, they need to add a relative to closed friends. Notifications about new content and comments will be both on facebook* itself and on the phones of relatives (if these phones support push notifications and are activated)
won't be right away). I have not yet come to the decision at what age to transfer the account under the control of a full owner :)
Those who are worried that the collected data will be lost can periodically save it to their computer (link “Download a copy of your Facebook* data” at the bottom of the page) or even set up an online backup in drobpox using ifttt.
com.
Now it's up to the little things: that the baby and all those who worry about him be healthy, which I sincerely wish you!
*Activities of Meta Platforms Inc. and its social networks Facebook and Instagram are prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation.
Since the advent of Facebook, the profile page has helped you tell others about yourself. People post on it everything that is interesting or important to them, starting with such trifles as impressions from the article they read, ending with photographs of the most significant life events, including a wedding or the birth of a child.
Development of the profile page
In the early days of Facebook, only the most basic information was published on the page - your name, photo, date of entering school ... in a word, everything that you usually tell about yourself in the first five minutes of meeting a new person.
Over time, the profile page has evolved to better fit what you expect from your friends. Now on this page you can post photos from the past weekend and tell us what mood you are in today.
Since the emphasis is on recent events, important information is gradually missing from the page. Graduation photos are replaced by messages about what you ate for breakfast.
Imagine you meet an old friend whom you haven't seen for a long time. What would you like to know, how did he make scrambled eggs this morning, or how did he land his dream job?
In the current situation, 99% of the stories you post on your profile page disappear from view over time. The only way to find them is to click on "Previous Posts" over and over again.
Just imagine how great it would be if you could instantly find posts that you posted a long time ago and collect all the most precious memories in one place
Introducing the Chronicle of Events - a new type of profile page
The Chronicle of Events (Timeline - at the moment this name does not yet have an official Russian translation on Facebook, probably when it appears, it will be different) stores all of your most interesting publications that you have ever posted.
Now they will not disappear anywhere as news is added.
The chronicle of events is much wider than the old version of the profile and is more visual. The first thing that catches your eye is the huge photo at the top of the page. This is your cover and it's up to you to choose which photo to post here.
Below your photo, you'll see all of your posts and photos displayed in chronological order. You can highlight individual events in the Chronicle by doubling their size, as well as remove from view what you would like to hide.
Filling in the gaps
If some important moments of your life were not included in the Chronicle of Events, you can open the date when they happened and add their description.
You can also use your personal action list. It displays everything you've ever posted since you created your Facebook account. Click on any of the posts to add it to the Chronicle of Events for your friends to see.
