Baby Arrival + Shower Suite

When you're ready, the words are ready.

One suite for the whole hello: the shower invitation months before, the birth announcement whenever the moment is right — an hour later, a day later, a week later — and the thank-you when the meal train has run its course. The announcement card takes one photo, a name, and the numbers everyone asks for — date, time, weight, length — and turns them into the text that gets forwarded to every branch of the family tree.

If your arrival was quieter than planned — a NICU stay, a hard birth, feelings that don't match the confetti — the suite includes a plain announcement variant: name, date, "we're resting, and we'll share more when we're ready." Joy is offered here, never required.

What you receive

• Shower invitation card — "Oh Baby!" design with host, date, place, and registry lines. Phone size (1080×1920) + print 5×7.
• Birth announcement card — photo arch, baby's name, born date and time, weight and length.
• Thank-you card — for the gifts, the meals, and the middle-of-the-night advice.
• Video announcement (MP4, 14 seconds) — a soft, joyful vertical video of the announcement, made for family chats and Stories.
• Layered source files (SVG) — every word editable in free tools.
• Details sheet — write every name and date once, in letter boxes, and check the weekday against the date before you build the cards.
• Simple edit guide — short numbered steps written for tired minds, including an optional prepare-ahead path (only if it brings you peace).

This is a digital product — no physical item is shipped.

A name for every family

Wording variants in the guide cover single parents, two moms, two dads, surrogacy and donor-conception welcomes (one opt-in set that neither implies biology nor hides your story), and adoption arrivals. For adoption day, the guide offers "the day we became a family" and "Family Day" first; "gotcha day" is there too, labeled honestly — some adoptees dislike the term, because the day can hold a first family's loss alongside your joy. The words are your family's to choose; all of them are designed with the same care.

For families who have loved and lost before: an opt-in line acknowledges a sibling held in your hearts ("little brother to ___, who we hold in our hearts"). Offered, never a default — and the announcement never presents this baby as a replacement for the one you lost. They are different children, and this suite knows it.