The secret's out!

My pregnancy was finally announced at work yesterday. My department head--upon hearing about our first pregnancy--was so excited to announce it then and so genuinely sad for us when we had our loss. I was so excited to be able to tell him a few weeks ago and let him announce finally ... one year later.

We were supposed to have a meeting in the afternoon where my pregnancy was the last item on the agenda, but the department head ended up getting sick yesterday, so he was working from home! He sent me an email in the morning asking if it would be ok if he announced in an email instead. At this point, I was just ready to have the secret out, though I seemed unable to tell people myself, so I told him to go for it.

I think it actually worked out better being announced in an email than in a meeting. Had it been in a meeting, everyone would have looked at me at the same time, and I probably would have felt very overwhelmed. With it announced in an email, everyone read the email at slightly different times, and I had people coming over to congratulate me for the rest of the day. It was very nice, and it allowed me to have multiple smaller conversations. Oh, and can you believe only one person swore that they "knew"? Everyone else must have just thought I've been putting on weight!

So that's it. Pretty much everyone important knows now, and the rest should find out through word of mouth. I should alert my mom that it's okay to send the news through the family gossip chain if she hasn't already.

I really love having people know. I'm already excited about all of the clothes I can now wear again that don't specifically hide my bump. After a year of being pregnant off and on, it feels really great to actually be able to talk about it out loud.