My friends and family members are so excited for the arrival of our new baby and I know that they will all be expecting phone calls when he's born. So many veteran moms have suggested designating someone to make all of those phone calls while we bond with our baby. While that is a great suggestion, it might be awkward for the designated caller to call someone on my list that they don't know. I also thought about sending out a mass text message, but that just seems so impersonal. I would love to be able to individually call each and every single friend and family member myself but I know we'll be busy recovering from delivery (yikes!) and getting to know our little guy. This is why I was so excited to hear about Baby's First Phone Call, a service that call your friends/family and allow them to listen to the personal message that you record right after birth.
Baby's First Phone Call recently sent me a gift certificate and set me up with an account so I can enter in my phone list ahead of time. When our little guy is born, we will just have to make 1 phone call to the number they give us and they will do the rest! Such an awesome service that I'm excited to use!
Information from Baby's First Phone Call:
What It Is
Baby's First Phone Call is an automated call tree that allows you to notify all of your friends and family of the arrival of your bundle of joy without the hassle of making dozens of individual phone calls, or leaving some friends and family to find out second- or third-hand.
How It Works
With Baby's First Phone Call, you set up an account before your baby is born – when you still have a moment of time to yourself – and enter the names and phone numbers of all the people you want to notify when the baby arrives. Then, after the baby is born, you make a single phone call and leave a personal voice-mail message of any length with all the details you want to share.
Not only can you tell your friends and family when your little bundle arrived, you can share information such as the hospital and room number you're in and whether and when you'd like to receive visitors.
Our system places calls to each of the phone numbers in your account. If the person answers the phone they hear your happy message. If they don't answer, the message is left on their voicemail or answering machine. In either case, there is an option for them to leave you a return message that you can pick up at your convenience.
It's really that easy! You're doing all the hard work; let us make spreading the good news easy for you.
Use Baby's First Phone Call to notify your book group, your friends from Lamaze class, your co-workers and your extended family. Now you have the perfect way to send a personal message with your joyous news to everyone in your network!
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24 comments:
This makes telling the new grandparents so much easier for us! We are planning a UC birth at home, and I was worried about having to call our parents to let them know when LO arrives, since we'll just want to relax and begin bonding with LO. This would solve my dilemma for sure!!!
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I think this is such a great idea! it makes it so much easier to share the news with all our family and friends but still be able to spend time with our new baby! I love how nobody will be left out!
What a neat service! I like that even if the person doesn't answer it will leave a message. No playing phone tag!
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I am now a follower!
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What a fabulous service, though I think grandparents really want a more personnal call, but at least they will hear your voice on the recording. With love and hugs Shirleyxxxxxx
I like that you can give a gift certificate for the service.
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I love that everyone that you sign up for the service can also leave you a personal message back! how cool is that!?!?!
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I love the simplicity of the phone call option!
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I'm a follower of the website! This will be great for my bff who is expecting her baby this May!
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I love this idea. The thing I like most is that you don't have to spend the time in the hospital while drained from labor, filled with emotions over your new arrival, hungry, and I'm sure many other things while also trying to decide who you're supposed to notify! I like how you can determine who gets notified early and you just leave the details that you want your friends and family to know.
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i love the idea it takes a lot of pressure at my husband thanks for the chance eaglesforjack@gmail.com
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