What all is there to consider when selecting birth announcements to send out to all your friends and family announcing the birth of your new baby? There are some obvious ones and some not so obvious. Your best bet for saving time and usually money as well, is to find an online store that specializes in personalized birth announcements.

Most online stores have a number of different categories from which to choose. There is the standard baby boy birth announcement category as well as the baby girl birth announcement category. There usually is also a generic category that would work for either a boy or girl. This is a category that would also work well in most cases if you had a boy and girl twins sine it is generic in nature.

Another category that is popular with some parents, especially of little boys is one called “Sports Birth Announcements” or sport themed birth announcements. If you are really into football or basketball or any other sport, there is probably a birth announcement created for it. If you are hoping that your little one will be the next quarterback, a soccer star, etc., you might want to select a birth announcement that emphasizes that sport.

Another type of birth announcement favorite seems to be the photo birth announcements of which there is a wide variety of different types of borders from which to choose, again you can often choose a theme within the photo birth announcement category. You can just select a photo card and upload your favorite baby photo and it can be printed right on the birth announcement with all your pertinent information about your baby’s birth.

If you can plan far enough in advance, it would be advisable to request samples of birth announcements you have seen that you are interested in, so that you can see the quality of the card stock and printing before ordering. You might also want to select a company that will allow you to order envelopes early so that you can address them ahead of time. You certainly will be a bit busier after you baby arrives and wouldn’t it be nice if all you had to do was call in with the information to be printed on a pre selected birth announcement and just have to stuff them into your pre addressed envelopes, lick the seal and send them!

If you think you might have some trouble in wording your birth announcements, most web sites have some sample birth announcement wordings that you can either use as is, just adding in your personal information, or at least use their examples to spark your creativity to come up with your own.