44 Christmas Baby Announcement Ideas: Captions, Wording, Photos & More!

Giving a traditional birth announcement card a festive spin is a wonderful way to introduce your baby to your wider community. (And we’ll share plenty of ideas for how to do just that in the rest of this article!) Minted has hundreds of Christmas birth announcement card designs that can be customized with your favorite baby photos, wording, and details like your baby’s weight, birth time, and more.

If you already have an annual Christmas card tradition, use this year’s card to announce the arrival of the best present of all! This is an especially nice idea if you are welcoming your second or third child, as you can use one of Minted’s multi-photo card layouts to give everyone in your family some time to shine.

There’s nothing quite as magical as a baby’s first Christmas. So turn your birth announcement into a sweet keepsake by skipping a standard rectangular card in favor of a photo ornament that you and your loved ones can proudly display on their trees! You could DIY this by printing out tiny photos of your newest arrival and placing them inside clear ornaments, or you can customize one of Minted’s ornament Christmas card designs with a photo of your baby and a matching ribbon.

Whether you decide to send out a physical Christmas birth announcement or not, you should definitely share the wonderful news with your social media network! Include a photo of your baby (you could just include a photo of their feet or of the back of their head if you’re concerned about privacy online), details like their weight and height, and share a message about how wonderful they’ve made the holiday season. There are so many ways to introduce your baby to the world! For a holiday birth announcement, we love the idea of playing with common Christmas sayings and phrases!

Welcoming home your first baby is a huge milestone. Use your baby announcement wording to share your joy and how much they’ve already made your life better.

• “The more the merrier”
• “The best gifts come in tiny packages”
• “Our first christmas with the sweetest little stocking stuffer”
• “To a holiday season filled with new beginnings and so much love”
• “Tiny toes and mistletoe!”

If faith plays a big role in your family’s life, a Christmas birth announcement is the ideal time to share it. Include a quote, saying, or bible verse that speaks to just how grateful to God you are for your tiny miracle.

• “So very blessed”
• “Our newest little blessing”
• “For this child I prayed and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart” - 1 Samuel 1:27

If you’re going the route of using your Christmas card to announce your newest arrival, you can’t go wrong with tweaking classic Christmas well wishes to share the happy news.

• “Holiday wishes from our growing family to yours!”
• “Home for the holidays”
• “Our Merry Little Christmas”
• “Our best gift”
• “Christmas came early this year”

A new baby brings so much joy, so why not spread that happiness with a light hearted and funny baby announcement?

• “Best. Gift. Ever.”
• “There won’t be any silent nights in our house this Christmas”
• “This year, we’ve already got everything we wished for!”
• “Nothing is calm, all is bright”
• “Our hearts grew three sizes that day”
• “Santa’s newest helper is here!”

If you live in an area that is expecting a white Christmas, use all of that early winter snow as a beautiful backdrop for your newborn photoshoot. Bundle everyone up in your warmest and most festive outfits, and get outside for a snowglobe-style birth announcement. Pair a snowy image with a caption like “Baby, it’s cold outside!”

Newborn photoshoots typically see your baby placed into a beautiful bassinet and swaddled in soft fabrics. Swapping out classic neutral fabrics for those with a festive vibe (think a red and green tartan, or even solid red or green linens) and adding in a few holiday touches like christmas cookies, ornaments, or even boughs of holly are super easy ways to make the photos feel on-theme for a Christmas announcement.

Find a set of holiday pajamas that come in sizes that can fit everyone in your family from big to small. Then, hold baby while you gather everyone else on your bed, the couch, or somewhere cozy in your home and snap a few festive photos of your growing family.

A new baby is truly a gift, so why not wrap yours up in a bow for your birth announcement? You could do this a few ways — go for a bow headband if you have a little girl, wrap a little boy in a swaddle and then tie it off with a bow, or, if your baby is a little older, you could give them a bow to play with in their hands while you snap a few photos of them.

If you’d had a Christmas onesie ready to go since the moment you found out you were pregnant, now is the perfect time for it to make its debut. Dress baby in a Christmas-themed onesie, or if they are still in newborn clothes, give them a red or green beanie to wear for your photos.

Similarly, you could swap out your baby’s newborn beanie for a teeny-tiny santa hat. It doesn’t get much cuter than that!

If your baby is small enough, swap out their swaddle for a soft knit stocking for your birth announcement photo. If your baby is slightly bigger (or even old enough to sit up on their own), you could place them inside Santa’s big red sack of gifts for a super cute way to share the greatest gift you’ll ever receive!

Every moment with a new baby is something special — so turn this year’s trip to the Christmas tree farm one you’ll remember forever by snapping a few special photos of your newborn while you’re there. You could pose them resting on one of your forearms in front of a tree or get the whole family into the shot.

Life with a newborn means spending a lot of time cuddled up in bed as they snuggle with you or feed, which can make for some super sweet family photos. Change into a clean pair of cozy clothes and get everyone in your family snuggled up together (pets included!) for a warm birth announcement that is full of love.

If your pet is every bit as in love with your baby as you are, include them in your birth announcement photo! This could look like them snuggled up together, your pet giving your newborn’s head a sweet sniff, or a heartwarming picture of your newborn resting in their fur.

There are so many fun ways to incorporate ornaments into your Christmas baby announcement photo. If your baby is a newborn, arrange a few ornaments around them while they’re sleeping and take a shot from above. If your baby is a little bit older, you could give them a plastic or traditional felt ornament to play with in the photos. And, if your baby is old enough to crawl, you could play with perspective by taking a picture of them crawling or enjoying tummy time and holding an ornament closer to the camera to make it look like they’re wearing a festive diaper.

Your baby is cute enough to eat, so why not turn them into a Christmas cookie? You can do this in a few ways. If your baby is small enough, you could dress them in a gingerbread onesie and place them on a baking sheet to make it look like they just came out of the oven. Or, you can again play with perspective by laying your baby on their back and standing above them holding a snowman or gingerbread cookie that you’ve bitten the head off of close to the camera — this will make their sweet face look like it belongs to the cookie!

While many of the baby announcement photo ideas on this list are elaborate, keeping it simple can be just as beautiful. If you’d like to feature the rest of your family (even if it is just yourself!) in your birth announcement photo, swap out the classic newborn cap for a cute beanie that is available in sizes that everyone can wear.

The day your baby was born they became the light of your life, which is why we love this sweet idea so much. Arrange Christmas lights around your sleeping baby to give newborn photos a beautiful glow, or if your baby is old enough to safely interact with them, give them a strand to play with as you snap photos of them.

Because newborn photos are often taken from overhead, there are tons of fun opportunities to play with perspective. A fun and festive way to do so is to nestle your baby into a large wreath (be sure to set them on something soft, like a small faux-fur blanket or sheepskin to avoid them being poked by the foliage). Tie a bow at the top and arrange the tails to look like they are trailing downward to give the illusion that the wreath is actually hanging from a wall or door.

If you’re ready to share the happy news with your community, let your Christmas card double as a pregnancy announcement! (This is also a great excuse to kick off a tradition of sending Christmas cards — imagine how different next year’s will look once baby is here!) Minted offers a huge variety of photo Christmas card designs that can be customized with wording and photos that announce you’re expecting.

If you’ve been keeping an early-stage pregnancy under wraps, Christmas morning — when all of your closest family are gathered together — can be a great time to share the news. If this is the first time your parents will be grandparents, tuck a sonogram into a gift that they can unwrap at the same time (or you could turn the sonogram into a beautiful photo art print). It's sure to top any other gift waiting for them under the tree!

If your first child is about to become a big brother or sister, use Christmas as an opportunity to get them extra excited! Share the news with your family on Christmas morning by giving your child a book about how to be an older sibling, or a shirt that says “world’s best brother/sister.”

Once you’ve shared the news personally with your close friends and family, it’s time to announce that you have a bun in the oven on social media! There are so many fun and festive ways that you can use both your caption and photo to announce your pregnancy, and all of the ideas we’re about to share work just as well on Instagram as they will in a physical Christmas card.

There’s plenty of room to invoke the holiday spirit in your pregnancy announcement cards, and playing with wording is a great place to start.

Your first pregnancy is an extra special experience, so use your wording to show that your life is about to get a lot more joyful!

• “Extra cheer this year”
• “Some gifts are worth waiting for”
• “Oh what fun it is to say, a baby is on the way!”
• “So long silent nights”

Christmas is an especially meaningful time of year to announce your pregnancy if faith is at the foundation of your growing family! Here are our favorite ideas.

• “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father” - James 1:17
• “From the fullness of grace, we have received one blessing after another” - John 1:16
• “Children are a gift from God, they are His reward.” - Psalms 127:3
• “For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him” - 1 Samuel 1:27
• “Gift from above”
• “Answered prayers”

What’s the holiday season without a bit of merriment and a lot of laughter? Include your pregnancy announcement in all the fun by playing with puns and other Christmas jokes.

• “Candy canes and baby names!”
• “We elfed around, and now baby x is due in y!”
• “We’ve been naughty”
• “Santa’s not the only one coming to town!”
• “Eating christmas cookies for two”
• “Cookies aren’t the only thing baking this year”

Is your workshop getting a new elf? Get all of the family involved in your pregnancy announcement with these cute phrases.

• “The more the merrier”
• “Expecting more joy”
• “Santa’s promoting me to big brother” or “Santa’s promoting me to big sister”
• “We’re adding another stocking to the mantle!”

Our pets are more than just furry friends — they’re family! So include them in your pregnancy announcement with wording that makes it clear the pack is getting bigger.

• “Does this mean I have to share my toys?”
• “Our family is growing by two feet!”
• “They’re getting me a human!”
• “New playmate on the way”

We love this simple idea of zooming in on the baby bump and holding a print-out of your sonogram picture. Pair the image with a clever holiday greeting such as “so much more to celebrate”, or “the more the merrier!”

For a holiday twist on the classic sonogram photo, find a small box and wrap it with your favorite wrapping paper and an elegant bow. (Need help tying the perfect bow? Check out our step-by-step guide.) Slide your sonogram picture onto the present and hold the package with your partner. We love this winter pregnancy announcement idea because it plays on the idea of your little one being the greatest gift, which is especially true during the holiday season. Pair a photo like this with the caption “Best Gift Ever!”

Aren’t baby shoes the cutest? Do a little early shopping for your little one and find a pair of cozy winter shoes for this easy photo idea. We love the moccasins in this photo, but cute booties or even infant snow boots would be equally as cute! For a few variations on this photo idea you can place the baby slippers in between the parent’s boots, in front of the paws of a pet, or by the fireplace. Then, caption the image with a saying like “Our family is growing by two feet!” or “Mistletoes.”

One of our favorite parts of the holiday season are the little Christmas Tree farms that pop up on every corner. Take a couple of photos among the evergreens and string lights for a festive Christmas pregnancy announcement idea. A great time to take these photos would be when you’re chopping down your own tree or going Christmas tree shopping with the family. We especially love pairing an image like this with a caption like “Our family is growing!”

The brood is growing! With your family already started, you may want to include the whole clan in the photo announcing your pregnancy. We love this simple, yet effective pose where your kids put their hands on your belly. For extra holiday flair, dress the family in coordinating festive outfits and pose in front of pine trees or another wintery backdrop. Captions like “The more the merrier” are perfect for these types of photos.

Was a baby on your Christmas list? Get Santa involved in your pregnancy announcement! Check your local paper for any “photo with Santa” opportunities planned at a nearby mall or department store. Bring along a printout of your latest sonogram and let Santa help you share in the spreading of your joyous news. For a funny announcement, pair your photo with a caption like “We’ve been naughty!” Or, you could go sweet (and more PG) with something like “Santa came early!”

Give your pregnancy announcement photo an elegant and organic holiday touch by accessorizing it with a garland. We recommend using real evergreens to get the drapey look seen in the photo. If you’re feeling crafty and adventurous, purchase some wire, poinsettias, roses, or pinecones and attach them to the garland for extra flair and pops of color for your winter pregnancy announcement. We have a detailed post on some of the top Christmas flowers and greenery you could feature.

If this is your first baby, have your photographer take a picture of you and your partner hanging the ornament. To get the whole family involved, give your child the photo ornament and ask them to hang it on the tree (another member of your family can also lift the little boy or girl up to get to that perfect spot). For a fun way to caption your photo, try something like “The best present won’t be under the tree!”

Thank Santa for granting your wish with this cute pregnancy announcement idea. Create your Christmas list on a sheet of notebook, craft paper, or an a-frame chalkboard, then lay your sonogram photo on top of it. This image says more than any words can, but you could add a caption about having been good all year and getting exactly what you’ve always wanted in your Christmas pregnancy announcement.

Incorporate everyone’s favorite modern Christmas tradition by getting Elf on a Shelf involved in your pregnancy announcement! Options here are endless, so get creative and have a bit of fun. We love the idea of playing into Elf’s mischievous side by posing it with a pregnancy test or having it hold up the sonogram image. Then, pair the photo with equally hilarious (or silly!) captions like “We’ve been naughty!”

Add a holiday twist to the classic “bun in the oven” announcement by staging a holiday photoshoot while doing some holiday baking! Get the whole family involved if you already have children (bonus points if you’re wearing matching aprons or festive pajamas) and don’t be afraid to have some fun to get the perfect candid shot. These photos work perfectly with captions like “Cookies aren’t the only thing in the oven this year!” or “Eating cookies for two.”

For a holiday-inspired version of the classic belly kiss photo, wrap your bump up as the present! Simply put on a festive outfit and tie a bow around your belly before taking the photo. You can use an oversized gift tag to announce the due date of your baby, or use a caption like “Our best gift is on layaway this year!”