Allow me to rant a bit here

[lola_granola]

People, listen to me: you're not supposed to tell people you're pregnant until the twelfth week. We all learned this from Aaron Sorkin, but before then, Emily Post and probably your grandma said it, too. (Actually, Post says that no one outside your immediate family should be told until just before you're big enough that people would know without

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[lola_granola]

I can agree with that. I think people who are just excited to be pregnant, though, should wait until they're sure they're not backing themselves into having to announce it. (This is what you just said.) And I think that even if you want to share the fact that you had a miscarriage with some people, you shouldn't do it on Facebook.

Paradox

[ext_193723]

It is a bit of a paradox that something as exciting and life changing as _getting_ pregnant should be kept secret (for awhile) but something as sorrowful as miscarrying (which would rather be kept secret) _must_ be publicized if the former is public.

- Bob