The rabbit died...

Around 1927 it was discovered that if you injected the urine of a pregnant woman into a rabbit, there would be corpora hemorrhagica in the ovaries of the rabbit. These bulging masses on the ovaries could not be seen with out killing the rabbit to inspect the ovaries, so invariably, every rabbit died, even if the woman wasn't pregnant. The phrase, "The rabbit died," came to be a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test after the late 1920 and early 1930s

[ The Rabbit Died - The Origins of the Pregnancy Test ]

In other words my wife is:

• up the duff
• in the pudding club
• working on her baby bump
• or just plain pregcellent

[ Babble.com ]

The next installment of our branch of Clan Kearns is due April 19th, 2009, God willing.

Update: apparently it wasn't meant to be, today the doctor confirmed that we have lost the baby.