I'm a dance teacher, I do 18 classes a week in a leotard and tights, so I know I won't be able to keep the secret very long. How/when are you teachers going to tell your students? My boss, the studio owner, already knows, and she suggested wrapping my office door in baby shower paper so everyone would see it through the week.
Re: Teachers: announcing to your students?
I'm a kindergarten teacher and don't plan on saying anything to my students until I have a very noticeable baby bump. For me, I don't want to have to answer (or avoid answering) questions like where do babies come from? How does the baby get out? etc. because five year olds are very curious!
It's definitely your choice when you would want to tell your students but I think their age is something to consider. Older students could probably be told soon after you announced publicly.
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I try to wait because I've experienced a loss at 12 weeks. I don't want to be the one to explain how babies are made AND how a miscarriage happens.
My co workers are already questioning so I guess they will have to know in a few weeks when we've told the family.
I teach high high schoolers and I still haven't told them (25 weeks). With my first I just waited until they figured it out (which was somewhere around 23 weeks, I think?), and I've been doing the same this time. I'm 'lucky' in that I carry very far back so I don't show until late, but I really kinda popped while they've been on winter break so I assume they'll figure it out next week.
Basically, it's whatever you're comfortable with and you think your students can handle. I've had coworkers that told their students pretty much as soon as they got their BFPs and others that never said anything even when they were about to pop.
OP, I think the door decoration idea is a cute way to do it, once you're ready for it!
I can announce at the end of semester.
I'll probably use my warm up board/picture to announce somehow.
People in my town are already suspecting, and it's such a small community that the word will get out fast. I'd rather be the one to get to spill the beans. We'll do a facebook announcement that day, too.