That Thing That Wasn't True Is Finally True

So, here are the facts: I am 35 years old. I have been with my husband for 11 years. There's a tremendous baby boom in the San Francisco startup world. It's no wonder that for the last year rumors keep springing up that I'm pregnant. Scoble started one a few times while I was traveling for my book. I was actually pretty thin in those days, but I was never in the country so people started to believe it. A month or so in town disputed it pretty easily.

Then, when I came home after the hardest, longest push of the book and had gained some travel weight, the rumors started a new. It didn't help that I teased that there was some totally unrelated news in my life I couldn't talk about. (Something I'd never write by the way if I were actually pregnant.)

I kinda let the rumors persist, because I figured if people thought I was pregnant they wouldn't talk about my weight gain. Then finally in November, I said on this blog I wasn't pregnant and that people had misunderstood both. That seemed to quell things.

And then a few weeks later, I got pregnant.

I'm only saying this now because it's increasingly hard to hide, even with the new desk at TechCrunchTV. Also, I'm going to see 200 of you at my book party tomorrow and I hate when people are too scared to ask because, well, no one ever got slapped for not asking a woman if she was pregnant.

But rest assured, I am NOT becoming a mommy blogger. And while my hormones are convincing me my baby is definitely the most awesome baby in the world, there is a time and place to browbeat friends with that information. It's not here. Ok, well, since we're talking about it, look at this handsome profile once, and then it's not here:

I will also never post a picture of my baby as a profile picture on any social network. I've always found that a weird statement, tantamount to saying your baby is your whole identity.

And -- obviously-- I'm still working. I plan to work up until the baby comes, traveling quite a bit for speaking gigs until I'm grounded June 30. (Check my schedule for details; if you want to book me, time and space is running out! I just booked three more gigs over the weekend. Contact my agents here.) This baby will go to more countries before it's born than I went to much of my adult life. And a few weeks after I give birth, I'll hop on a flight to host Beijing Disrupt.