Pregnancy News Etiquette

Apparently, we fluffed the first rule of pregnancy announcements by not waiting until the third month before going public. This, apparently, is to avoid the embarassment of having to retract the happy news should the pregnancy miscarry. Ooookay.

Then there's informing the family, which involves a complicated set of protoccols to which I was oblivious. What I was supposed to do was discreetly mention to one or two relatives that there was a possibility that we might be expecting, and then let the gossip permeate its way through the extended family grapevine, with the eventual result that my unsuspecting mother would be continually and pleasantly ambushed by the congratulations of well-wishers.

Or something like that. Next time, we might just wait til the whole thing was over before we tell anyone.