Breaking It To The Family - Managing Your Pregnancy PR

Oh, we all know what’s going to happen when the news gets out. Both previous pregnancies, we’ve told immediate family. We’ve sworn them to secrecy. Within minutes, they’ve told everyone they know.

Yes, yes. Why am I blogging this if I don’t want the world to know? For a start, no-one is reading this (at the moment) except me! It’s quite an intimate gathering!

The Problem
We’ve been very vocal about not having any more kids. Our extremely astute relatives will pick up on the fact that the pregnancy is…not unplanned….let’s say….spontaneous.

So, with that in mind, it wouldn’t be very helpful to either:

a) have the news immediately broadcast around Northern Ireland, or
b) have to listen to a bunch of ‘told you so’s. So:

The Solution
Let’s not tell anybody!

We have wisely decided not to tell anyone. Besides ourselves, only two trusted parties are aware of the pregnancy. The plan is, if we can keep it a secret up to the 3 month watershed, we’ll issue anonymous invitations to a christening sometime in August.

After that, we’ll let people guess the rest. Sure, some people will be pissed off that they weren’t ‘inner circle’ enough to know, but these will most likely the people who publicised the first two pregnancies!

The Result
By the time everyone realises that we’re expecting again, the ‘PR Campaign’ will overshadow our ‘never again’ attitude, and there’ll be less criticism from our nearest and dearest! Everyone should try this at least once