I must admit, I'm almost dreading my soon-to-be-married cousin making an announcement later this year. I know that, as I'm the only other married one, I'll get all the comments (I get mild ones now; everyone expects an announcement so I make d@mn sure I eat unpasturised cheese, drink wine and caffine and just enjoy myself around family). So I just plan to turn round to anyone asking me and say to them: "Wow, XXX, I didn't know you were so rude! Imagine asking your grandaughter/niece/cousin about her sex life! And what do you want the answer to be? That, actually, we've been trying for two years? That I'm six weeks gone and didn't want anyone to know yet? Or that I lost a baby recently? Would any of those answers satisfy?"

I just know that by having that answer ready no-one's going to ask me so I can make them feel bad. But if I ever feel ill and tell my mum she's so excited now, thinking I'm pg, even when I tell her I'm not. "Oooh, three weeks into your cycle, you could be!" "Um, no, not when I have a six-week cycle and don't ovulate until week 4." "Oh, you don't know that; you're pregnant." I sooooo love telling her when my period has come when she's done that to me. When I do get pregnant I'm not going to tell her anything other than the fact I'm healthy and fine so she can't pretend she knew first when I tell her at 14 weeks.

Actually, kind of dreading just nursing a glass or two of wine at my cousin's hen do, and not having caffine. I don't drink lots because I don't like to get drunk, I like to enjoy the wine, but try telling my sister that's a good reason to have alcohol. And I don't want her to know I am seeing someone about stuff so can't have caffine either because I don't want my mum to know.

So yes, no-one but me and DH are to know (except all of you, of course!). And again, no-one to know we're having a baby until we make it to 14 weeks. That will be hard as BiL announced his and SiL's baby at 7 weeks pg, but I'm not doing that just in case. And I have to hope DH respects that.