![]() Make cupcakes or cookies: Top them with pink or blue icing, sprinkles and other baby-themed decorations like rattles and bottles.This is a very quiet way to share the news and only those that are interested will comment. Scan your first ultrasound: If your computer screen is visible by coworkers when they walk past your desk, add your ultrasound picture as the background or screensaver on your computer.For now, I will be the only one expanding.” Share the announcement during a department meeting or via email to close coworkers. Create an announcement: “Proud to announce the expansion of Team (insert last name here), April 20xx.My coworkers enjoyed the cookies and had fun guessing who was pregnant. I created my own little note tags using scrapbooking paper and I wrote my own little poem. Pink and blue M&M’s can be expensive or hard to find, so I opted for pink and blue frosted cookies. Create a Guess Who note and treat: Put pink and blue M&M’s in the lounge with a note saying Pink and Blue, Pink and Blue…Someone’s expecting can you guess who!.Either way, I got to share my news and excitement with my coworkers. It was my time to be excited and if my coworkers shared in that excitement, great, but if not, then they could just keep it to themselves.īecause I like to please people, I still chose to share the news in a way that was quiet, simple and fun for those that wanted to share the excitement and yet not a huge fanfare either so that the party-poopers could remain silent if they so chose to do so. What a sourpuss attitude! We can’t please everyone but that shouldn’t keep us from sharing our excitement and being happy about something so I decided that I wasn’t going to let their opinions stop me. I can’t to tell you how many posts I read that discouraged women from telling coworkers or sharing the “excitement” at work saying it was inappropriate and could offend others that really couldn’t care less. How do you tell them? How do you make it fun and yet unobtrusive for those who don’t care to share your excitement? Discovering that you’re pregnant can be such an exciting time! On the other hand, finding ways to tell coworkers that you’re pregnant can sometimes be stressful.
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