My little blog on announcement cards
Therefore, you would probably benefit a lot more by keeping your baby announcements as simple as you can possibly make them. You should resist the urge to include superfluous details in your baby announcements that probably won't be read by the receiver anyway. The essential facts are the only pieces of information that you should include anyway, and anything else could probably be omitted without changing the gist of the message. You do of course have to include the name of your child and when he or she was born, as well as the name of both parents. In some cases, you may even want to include the names of the child's godparents, although this is largely dependent on your preferences.