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Following in the wake of the celeb craze for spring 2011, Elaine from Cork has some happy news:
My significant other and I found that we are expecting a new arrival in November.
It is a surprise for both of us really… we have told our immediate family but not our friends yet!
My question is: do you have any interesting ways for us to break the news to our friends and work colleagues after I have my first scan?
I was think via facebook for friends— but that just seems boring!
Any crazy ideas like sky writing etc… greatly appreciated?
Bravo Elaine and Mr Elaine! It would be pretty easy just to direct your friends to this post, but, I’ll grant you, perhaps insufficiently festive. You could stuff a cushion up your jumper for your next social occasion, and pretend you are practising for six months hence. You could leave a bun in each of their ovens, with a little note explaining this bizarre act (people are quite lenient towards odd behaviour in pregnant people, don’t they?); you could send them one of those creepy photos amalgamating your face with your partner’s and sticking it onto a baby’s body, with the caption, “Brace yourself!”; you could show them all how you’ve turned your erstwhile drugs den into a nursery. However, none of these ruses are satisfactory given the significance of the news, so I put it to you readers who unlike me have produced offspring. Go to the comments, and with your mental fecundity give birth to a glorious scheme via which Elaine can intimate to her friends and colleagues that in a few months’ time they will have to get used to her being tired, distracted and covered in regurgitated milk.
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Answer Me This! Podcast 
April 3, 2011 at 8:36 pm |
Convert “I’m having a baby” into some sort of basic code (maybe A=1, B=2, etc) and distribute it around the office? The smart ones/amateur cryptologists will figure it out first and will be rewarded with the knowledge of a job well done and will also be the ones let in on the secret?
March 30, 2011 at 8:48 am |
You could do photocopys of the scan and fashion them into paper aeroplanes. You could then fire them around the office, distribute 1 plane between 4 desks, that way everyone gets to know eachother aswell.
March 30, 2011 at 3:50 am |
My sister left her scan on the table at a party, and everyone whispered to each other ‘whose is this?’ until someone asked her ‘is this yours?’ She also told my brother by emailing it to him, to which he responded ‘is this yours!?!’ She and her husband thought it was a fun way to let people know.