Baby Farrar!!!

Soooo does everyone know now?! Baby Farrar is due October 29^th!!! YEAH!!! Burr and I are VERY excited. Very excited about the baby and very excited that I don’t feel like a nauseous walking zombie anymore. I’m like a new woman loving the 2^nd trimester….everyone keeps telling me just wait till you get huge. But I’m great right now. 

So, for all those out there with little ones – how exactly do you tell your boss?  Here is a story of what I did and how you should for sure NOT tell your boss your pregnant: 

I have several “bosses” (aka: partners and seniors managers). So I have lots of people I need to tell, but I only felt obliged to tell my big big boss. At lunch I started to tell him, then chickened out….finally towards the end I tell him….except tears start rolling down my face. WHY AM I CRYING? Men hate crying. Especially at work. I remember my 2^nd day in London I cried with Howard, my big boss, and he told me crying is never acceptable at work…thanks dude. I wasn’t aware~!   So my big boss was nice and asked why I was upset. Of course I wasn’t upset I’m just full of hormones. OH MY. Embarrassing much??

It gets worse….yes I know…after I tell the big big boss I make no plans to tell anyone else until my 2^nd trimester.......

So I am about 10 weeks along I went to the doctor unexpectedly for some issues. After my ultrasound I go back to the waiting room and text Burr “Baby is great. Heartbeat 174. Nothing to worry about. Waiting for Doctor to see me now.” So I go on with my Dr’s appt and call Burr on the way back to office. He is very pleased to hear my voice and happy to hear all is well. Yeah baby is fine! Apparently my uterus was just stretching – well ouchie!  (Yeah, I’m in a LOT of trouble for actual labor – we can discuss this later). 

I get back to my desk and I’m checking my phone and it looks like I sent a text to my senior manager….then I look more carefully and I didn’t text Burr “Baby is great. Heartbeat 174. Nothing to worry about. Waiting for Doctor to see me now.” – I sent it to my bOSS!!!!  OOOOOOO NNNOOOOOOO. And not just a guy boss, my female boss who just happens to not be able to keep secrets. OOOPPPPSSSS. I mean what do you do then?  There is no way you can talk yourself out of it.  So I called her and was like “Oh, yeah So I’m pregnant” and basically everyone else in the office knew within a few days! 

Here comes the fun!!!