Birth Announcement Ideas
Five Unique Ways to Announce
the Arrival of Your New Baby

New parents are often looking for new birth announcement ideas to let their friends, family and coworkers know that the new little one has arrived. The first thing you want to consider is if you're going to announce just the basic information like the new baby's name, birthdate and birth weight or if you're going to include other information too.

Some announcements just won't be big enough to include much more than the baby's name and date of birth, while others are great for including a lot more information.

Knowing what information you plan to include on the announcements will help you decide what types of birth announcement ideas to look for. Here are few ideas that will get you started.

Laminated Bookmarks
Custom laminated bookmarks are one of the best birth announcement ideas because they allow room to be creative. You can have a newborn photo at the top and all of the important information on the front. On the back of the bookmark birth announcements you can have a fun verse or quote that expresses the arrival of the new one.
Another advantage to using bookmarks for birth announcements is they're less likely to get stashed in a forgotten drawer or even tossed in the trash. It's a practical and useful way to make a birth announcement and your friends and family will love getting them.

They're also easy and lightweight to mail and since they're relatively inexpensive, you can send more than one to a family.
Personalized Candy Bar Wrappers
Almost everyone loves getting chocolate! And with personalized candy bar wrappers you can include a good bit of information too, maybe not quite as much as you would on bookmarks, but you can have the key information and a little saying on the wrappers.
Custom Photo Cookies
This is one of the more novel birth announcement ideas for handing out to people as they come to visit or taking to work and giving out. Most bakeries now can make an edible photo for the top of the sweat treats and add the baby's name and birthdate on them.
Whether you're mailing the cookies or handing them out, you can always add a bookmark birth announcement to the treats just in case the cookies get eaten before the announcement information is written down.
Photo Birth Announcement Ideas
Everybody loves seeing photos of newborns and there are a variety of ways to add photos to birth announcements. You can put them inside small photo frames to give away, include them in cards or even print them on postcards or inside greeting cards.
Plantable Seeds
There's paper now that has seeds inside of it for planting and you can add a verse to the paper to "plant this in honor of our new little seedling." You can also buy some flower or other plant seeds and wrap them with your own custom paper.

With any of these birth announcement ideas, you can decide well ahead of time what you're type of announcement you're going to use, and most of them can even be purchased ahead of time, unless you're having a photo printed on them. Then obviously you have to wait until the little one is born.

So what information do you put on birth announcements?
The most important information is listed first. Optional information can be included if you have room on the type of announcement you're using:

The babies full name.
Date and time of birth.
Size and weight of the baby at birth.
Optional: Name of the proud parents.
Optional: Where the baby was born.
Optional: Names of the newborns siblings.

Who should you send the birth announcement cards to?
You can send out birth announcements to anyone you want, starting with the people you have on your holiday greeting card list. Or you can save postage and limit the announcements to your closest family, friends and coworkers.

Depending on the birth announcement ideas that you pick from, the amount of postage it costs to mail them may have you cutting back on the list of recipients.

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