Omerta - or purdah

It's a curious thing finding out that your wife is pregnant after a year of 'trying.'

During the year, we have come up with thousands of ways of saying Get Stuffed to the myriad questions about having children. There's a constant undertone in the questioning of 'maybe they can't' and 'perhaps something's wrong.' And now it turns out that we are having a baby, it's an even bigger pain not to be able to tell anyone until the the first scan (in about twelve weeks).

I promise never to ask another couple again whether they plan to have children, or, worse, if they are 'trying.'