Storks have always held deep symbolic meanings for many cultures. In the Bible, references to storks considered the birds to be uniquely beautiful. It was a praise of the highest order to have your beauty compared to a stork! The ancient Chinese saw the stork as a messenger of God and believed storks had the ability to ascend to the heavens and take people with them. Throughout time, the symbol of the stork has been one of innocence, protection, beauty and a direct link to a higher power.

The image of a stork delivering a baby is one we all know and love, but how did that image get so inscribed on all of our brains? The word "stork" comes from the Greek word storge, meaning strong, natural affection. Because storks live to 70 years and are monogamous, they have a highly developed sense of devotion to their family members.

It is reported that in Scandinavia, that tight knit families of storks routinely return to the same nesting sites each year to raise their young. Their nests are always either on or near chimneys. Mysteriously, often the stork's arrival into a town coincides with a distinct jump in the birth rate of the human population. This ignited human imagination and the Scandinavian story of childbirth by stork was born.

Stork birth announcements with the stork theme are some of the best selling birth cards in our collection. Our exclusive birth announcements and baby announcements with a stork or storks includes lots of unique birth cards and can be made into stork photo birth announcements, twins stork birth announcements, holiday Christmas stork birth announcements, baby boy stork birth announcements, baby girl stork birth announcements, stork pregnancy announcements, stork adoption announcements and any other birth announcements you want.

When your new baby comes into your life, you want to shout the good news from the highest rooftop. You want everyone to know about your lil bundle of joy and share in your wonderful blessing. However, shouting from the top of your roof is a little impractical, so the more practical way is to send custom stork birth announcements to let your friends and family know that your lil one has arrived.

We hear and read so much about birth announcement cards with storks, but exactly what is a stork birth announcement card? Regardless of how simple or creative they are, birth announcements are how parents share birth information about their new babies. Most stork birth announcements include the same general information.

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You should begin planning your stork birth announcements as soon as possible so you can mail them in a timely manner after the baby is born. If you are going to design and personalize your own birth announcements, you will want to do as much of the creating before the birth as possible, since you won't have a lot of free time during the first few weeks after your baby is born. If you are not sure of your baby's gender, you can send gender-neutral birth announcements. Obviously, you won't know much of the pertinent information yet, but you can fill in the baby's name if that has been decided, along with your own names.

At Cards Personalized, you can select from among hundreds of stork birth cards, pick your typestyle, ink color and fonts and then instantly preview your personalized stork birth announcement card. This process can be repeated until you have your custom birth announcement just the way you want it. As you are submitting your order, you should request our “Envelopes Early” privileges. This privilege allows you to receive your envelopes early so you can begin addressing them. By addressing your envelopes before the baby’s birth, you will have this task behind you when it is time to mail the birth announcements. After your baby arrives, call and give us the information to be added to the birth announcement cards, and we will print and ship your stork birth cards the same business day.