How was your pregnancy secret revealed? | BabyCenter

I?m a teacher and, like other teachers within the BabyCenter Community, keeping either of my pregnancies a secret for long was not easy. Of course, there will be some children who keep their thoughts to themselves, but they are a rare breed. Most of the time, I was confronted in front of a class with: ?Mrs. Lewis, I thought you were getting really fat, but then I asked Keisha and she said, you might be getting fat OR you might be pregnant. So, which is it??

Here are some classic reactions from some other teachers:

My students are spreading rumors about me being pregnant and having to go to the Mayo Clinic (I was at a convention).?KansasKat

My english teacher was pregnant in high school and we had all suspected she was due to her growing belly. We were discussing a book and some kid raised his hand and said,? did you get knocked up this summer?? Room went silent. She busted out laughing and confessed.?ebhayes28

I teach in downtown detroit and have found in all my pregnancies that even the roughest and most obnoxious kids tend to have positive reactions, and are very supportive and curious when they find out.?mamallama1

Like mamallama1, I have taught in some very rough schools and I agree, the reaction to pregnant teachers is always very positive. They carry books and open doors, even stand at the board and write for the teacher when standing for eight hours straight gets to be too much. One unruly and heavily muscled student of mine once told me that she would be happy to ?sort anyone out? who troubled me. I didn?t take her up on the offer, as thoughtful as it was.

But, for each of my pregnancies the announcement was not of my own making. And, us teachers, are surely not alone in having our pregnancy secret unveiled in an embarrassing or public situation.

How was your pregnancy secret revealed? By you or someone else?

You can read more from Stacie at Mama Lewis and the Amazing Adventures of the Half-Brained Baby.

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