What did you do when you found out you were pregnant?

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Just that really! What did you do on the day you found out you were pregnant?

How did you tell DH/DP? Did you do anything to celebrate? Or just get on with the rest of your day?

Swore.

1st time, we'd just got back from our honey moon, I think we just chilled that night. The second time, I just sent my husband a text after I did the test as he'd gone to work. Then, I spent the day looking after dc 1, who was one.

With DC1 he was with me when I took the test. I think I did the test, we had brekkie, then checked it. Positive. We smiled (it was planned), I got ready for work and off I went (he was unemployed at the time). That was that.

DC2 he was at work and I took a test whilst I was wfh as I'd bought it from the shop on my way back from dropping DC1 at school. Sent him a picture of the positive on WhatsApp and he sent some heart type emojis back (also planned).

DC3 - how funny but I'm still pregnant and I already can't remember anything about doing the test etc! I will have to ask him if remembers haha.

I’ve had 3 pregnancies and 2 babies.

baby number 1 I was at work and I rang DP screaming in delight (sadly we lost this baby) and we were giddy

baby number 2 was on the back of the miscarriage of baby number 1 and I took the test on a Saturday morning just after I had a shower. We had just bought a house earlier that week and we we excited but so nervous given the MC. My husbands reaction was oh my god you haven’t ate yet today and he took me for brunch

baby number 3 I found out a few weeks ago. I was 3 weeks and 2 days but I just knew I was pregnant. Tried not to test but curiosity got the better of me and I tested and I rang my husband giddy that we were pregnant again. He was excited but again so nervous. We went about our day more with this one and tbh it hasn’t hit us yet that we’re having another wee one

DC1- I took the test after work, so I told DH, then just got on with my evening and spent a lot of time googling 😆

DC2 (still a bump) - for some reason I decided it would be a good idea to take the test in the loos at work in the morning, so I spent the whole day trying to focus on work and not blurt it out to everyone I saw. Then came home and tried to find a quiet moment to tell DH, which wasn't easy as my in-laws were there and our toddler kept walking in...

The first time, I’d done a test just to stop myself getting my hopes up, so it was 6:30am before work, and my husband wandered in to do his teeth while I was waiting for the result. Took a while so we were quite teary… then off to work 😂
This time around, I did a test for the same reason as my first pregnancy, having been ttc for 2.5 years, I certainly didn’t expect a positive! I then didn’t see my husband for four days as he was working long hours. Gave up trying to catch him of an evening so put a Big Brother top on my son for his pyjamas then got him to show DH in the morning!

I've been pregnant nine times (6 mcs, 3 children) so it became a very ambivalent experience pretty quickly. I don't think I 'did' anything the first couple of times, either, though.

Cried a lot. It was an intentional pregnancy but I was still very scared and stressed and worried I wasn’t ready.

I now have a lovely baby boy who delights me every day 😊

DC1 - I cried. Was very scared.

Turned out to be one of bestest things ever.

I did the test when my DH was mowing the lawn and we had a lovely “oh shit” moment together when we saw it was positive. And that was it, got on with our day and lived happily ever after.

DH was with me when I took the test, and despite it being a wanted baby I think I cried from fear.

Second time round I took the test, came out the bathroom, and said, "Here we go again. "

Dh was going on a stag straight from work on a Thursday and I was leaving Fri to the hen party. I tested positive Thursday eve and phoned him as he was going to the pub. I went to a shop and bought a pregnancy book and spent the night reading and stressing about how not to drink alcohol at a hen weekend. The reality didn't hit me til I met Dh a few days later.

For my second pregnancy we'd been trying to ages and it was becoming really stressful. I was due to test on a particular morning and dh was still asleep as I had an early start. I had bought a different test brand to usual that had a longer waiting time which i hadnt realised. So after a minute or so I saw no line and furiously chucked the test into the bin and left the house. Dh woke up and saw the test in the bin with two strong lines. He put it into a gift box and wrapped it and bought flowers etc. He made a big drama of telling me he had news etc then told me that I was pregnant. It was very emotional and would be a lovely story to tell only I lost that little soul a few months later.

I was 17, had the test done in a sexual health clinic on my own and I was in an abusive relationship, my stomach dropped with fear.

Went to bed. I found out on the last wee of the day. Was feeling nauseous.

DC1 - can't remember exactly. Told DH, told my parents then his parents. Was quite surprised as I'm pretty sure given what I realised in retrospect were early symptoms (implantation bleeding, sudden spots on my chin - happened second time too) indicated I likely got pregnant on our first attempt.

DC2 - I did the test on Christmas day, partly wondering if it could explain why I had been so utterly exhausted for the last 4 weeks (a symptom I never got with DC1) and turned out I was indeed pregnany - it had taken us a good few month that time around. We don't celebrate Christmas, but BIL, his wife and their son, same age as my oldest, were coming over for lunch that day so they got to know early on. The exhaustion ended a few days after that, thank God.

DH was there when I took the test so he found out at exactly the same time as me. We didn’t announce it until 12 weeks but I couldn’t resist telling my mum within half an hour of finding out. DH and I went out for a meal and to the cinema to celebrate. We were also approved to adopt our rescue golden retriever on the same day, but that’s just a coincidence.

Said ‘fuck’ very loudly. But in a good way.

Don't remember particularly. I was very conscious it was only the start of a long road and had potential to go wrong. Was very much, "OK, that's good. Hope it's OK from now on, let's not not get overexcited"

I was so so clueless as I just deep down didn't think I could get pregnant. I'd done a cycle of clomid, and on day 14 suddenly thought, oh, I actually could do a test! And I walked to the chemist, but there was a massive queue, and then I walked to another one and bought a FRER. I went upstairs when I got in, did the test and I think it went positive straight away. Still unbelieving, I posted on Mumsnet asking for line eyes whilst I was working.
Then I sat at my desk and at lunch time I told DP
who was working at home. He was equally as unbelieving, said, "wow, we did it," put his arm round me and then shuffled back to his office. I think we were both in shock. I think I thought when I got pregnant that DP and I would be overwhelmed with emotion and collapse sobbing happily into each others arms, but we literally carried on working all afternoon as in quiet shock!

I remember being so giddy and happy!

I went straight to the high street and got a gift box and a cute onesie that said "Best Daddy" and gave them to DH when be came in from work.