We told everyone our due date, but then at 32 weeks I had to book a c/sfor 39 weeks due to placenta praevia - we kept this to ourselves and didn't tell anyone as we still wanted to surprise everyone with the birth news afterwards (not to mention avoid ppl hanging around the hospital!).

In the end, my labour started naturally 3 weeks early at 2am, still had the cs, but told everyone about 6 hours later. I had to ring my family first as they were due to show up at my place for mothers day breakfast