It is a happy time, your have just brought home your new bundle of joy, you are ready to get started. Birth announcements are a great way to let everyone know your new baby has arrived. Many parents send the announcements to friends and family right after the birth, however, some choose to wait up to six months before sending announcements.

The choice is yours as to what type of information you put on the birth announcements. However, some things are just expected such as some sort of saying, song, or poem passage. Generally the height and weight of the baby at birth is included as well as the time and date of birth. Photographs are typically also included in birth announcements, either a picture of the baby alone or a picture of all of your children.

Traditional birth announcements have designs and colors that portray the gender of your baby. However, such as the case with multiple births or any gender for that matter, you can choose any colors you wish. The choice is yours, you can go with traditional colors or be as unique as you want with your baby's announcements.

For girls, you could use traditional pink, or use colors such as green, lavender, gingham, or yellow. For boys, the baby blue is the traditional colors, but you could use hunter green or navy blue as well.

For multiple births such as twins or triplets or even more, you will want to announcement the babies by separating their names. One a birth announcement, if they see the names of the baby quite close together, others might think you simply gave your child a really long name. The best way to do this is to separate their names under their picture, with two separate pictures. Another way might be, if they have one picture together, is to put one name on one side, and the other on the other side.

Some people are choosing to get creative and make their own birth announcements. You can do this before or after the baby is born, if before, you will want to simply create the announcement, and then fill in the information at a later date, after birth.

Birth announcements can be created by hand or using your personal computer. The computer provides a very easy and fast method of announcement creations, if you are knowledgeable in the workings of a computer. If not create them by hand for a special, loving, personalized touch.

While many family and friends will love a personalized birth announcement it is not necessary to hand write each and every announcement. However, on really close and special family and friends, it might be a very nice touch.

Emails or websites are a great way to send birth announcements as well. Many online websites will allow you to simply fill in information, add a photograph, and then send the announcements to your friends and family's inbox.

Summary:

It is a happy time, your have just brought home your new bundle of joy, you are ready to get started. Birth announcements are a great way to let everyone know your new baby has arrived.