Questions About the Baby Announcement


by Sarah Porter - Date: 2008-11-06 - Word Count: 483 Share This!

Questions About the Baby Announcement



Sending out the Baby Announcements to your friends and family is a good idea but before you start selecting the birth announcements you want to mail for your new arrival, there are some questions you might have about them.



Birth Announcement: Gift Required?



Don't expect everyone who receives Baby Announcements to send a gift. They certainly aren't required to do so. However, most will send you some type of acknowledgement: a note of congratulations, a telephone call, or even a visit to see the baby in person.



Of course, some recipients may want to send gifts but never send along a list of needed items or details about where you've registered the baby. You should make sure your close relatives have this information though so if they are asked by recipients of Baby Announcements they can provide the information. It's a good way to make sure people get the information without you looking like you expect gifts.



Announcements Baby: Special Factors



When you get ready to send out your babies announcements, you may have special circumstances that would affect the way you write your baby cards. For example, if you have twins or triplets you might not know whether to send out multiple pregnancy announcements or not. The best rule of thumb is to always stick with a single pregnancy announcement and just add all of the new additions' names. You can imagine the surprise your recipients will have when they see the list of names. Of course, this won't work as well with photo baby announcement.



Birth weight can be another sensitive issue for new parents. Although the weight is generally listed on the birth invitations, you might want to leave it off if the baby was premature and, therefore, very small or you might not want to include if your baby was very large. Most of the recipients won't be bothered by the information or the absence of it so do what makes you feel comfortable. And don't forget that you do not need to include a personalized note on each of the infant announcements. You're going to be way too busy anyway.



Handling the Baby Announcement for Adoptions



With more couples adopting, this issue is becoming a common one. Even though the child is not technically being born to you, it's a good idea to still send out announcements to celebrate the new baby in the family. To make sure everyone knows the baby was adopted, you might want to make some tweaks to the normal information, such as including the date of birth and the official date the baby joined the family. If appropriate, you might want to include the state or country from which your new child was adopted. No matter what the circumstances of your new arrival you'll always want to choose a baby announcement that people will cherish for a lifetime.


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Sarah Porter has written several articles about Personalized Baby Announcements, FREE Baby Cards, Affordable Birth Announcements, Printable Adoption Announcements, Unique Pregnancy Announcements, Photo Birth Announcements, Birth Announcements Thank You Cards and lots more for http://www.CardsShoppe.com http://www.Cards-411.com http://www.Birth-Cards.com and http://www.Express-Invitations.com

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