To ask how you told your partner you were pregnant?

[WelshBarbie]

Currently TTC.. and constantly getting an overwhelming gut feeling I'm pregnant then a slap in the face that I'm not. Doesn't help that I'm addicted to POAS. Trying to distract myself from sulking by thinking of nice ways to break the news to my partner if and when we are successful.

Anyone got any nice stories? ☺️

I was a single mum of three and had taken a year each to conceive my youngest two.
So when I met my partner we fell in love quickly and both knew we wanted a baby together, but we didn't bother using contraception as I figured it might take a while.
One day we were out shopping and we saw some cheap tests so bought a couple and got a faint positive to our surprise, which we really weren't expecting. A first response confirmed it two days later.
We've been together 18 months and have a 6 month old little boy. I had conceived on my first cycle since trying.

He found me crying and unable to speak. I was 20 weeks pregnant with number 4 and had repeatedly been back to the doctors about unexplained heavy bleeding. I’d also been sterilised, had the depo injection and only one Fallopian tube after having an ectopic following complications from sterilisation.

I knew my plans would have to change, my life felt as though it was over. I was absolutely distraught. He just guessed and I nodded my head through gasping sobs.

She’s three months old now and actually the easiest, most lovely baby ever. Yes I had to give up my dream career but I’m starting my family friendlier job Monday coming.

My husband is currently off work with sore balls after having the snip

1st time was just im pregnant, with a stick shoved in his face (several miscarriages and we didn’t know if this one would end up the same)

2nd time after the first time of trying and all the heartache we didn’t expect much so imagine when we’d only had sex once or twice and wham I was up the duff, he was in bed and I was in the bathroom and I shouted ‘well your super spunk has struck gold’

This time, I text him “shiiit I think I’m pregant” as we had been ttc for nearly 2 years, decided to stop at the end of last year due to our ages, and gap between ds and dc2, so we’d literally only had sex once the previous month! We had resigned ourselves to just having 1, had booked a holiday, ordered a new kitchen, assumed that was it, so it was a bit of a shock to us both!

With ds I think I called him at work. His response was a bit underwhelming as he had colleagues milling about so couldn’t really react.

I got him a card that said "you did it!" And wrote a little message inside...

Went down like a lead balloon

Bought some of our usual kitchen mugs but with mummy and daddy on them, I made him a herbal tea to take to bed and passed it over with the word daddy facing him, he loved it! I secretly recorded it and love watching him realise what it meant

She told me. We'd done IVF, both incredibly anxious. I POAS but couldn't look (wee left it in the bathroom and stood outside in the hall as we couldn't face watching it, so she went in and looked at the result.

Can't imagine testing without her TBH.

First one: did a kind of 'reveal' - it was Christmas and I wrote him a card from the ameoba. Mass fear/excitement. Me crying.

Second one: rang him at work 'Yep, I'm definitely pregnant'
'Ok great'
'DS just threw his socks in the loo...'

With DS I didn't ; he told me he thought I was and went off to Sainsburys to buy a test and we stood in the bathroom and watched the line appear. He was delighted and I was a bit shakey.
With DD I did a test and told him when he got home from work. I think my exact words were 'I'm pregnant' I have a talent for the imaginative

oh god this makes mine sound awful!

We were not ttc, as I'd just resigned from one job, but yet to start my new job. I'd done 2 tests which were both neg, so I went to the doctors because I'm NEVER late and I was 3 weeks late by this time. Dr just passed it off as a "blip". Then just as I stood up to leave, she said, "oh do a test here just to rule it out" and that one came up pos. I was v v shocked. Then I phoned dh on the way home stammering that I was ok, not ok, well yes ok, sort of, but I am pregnant. That was on 9/11 day. So it was a really surreal day all in all.

I came downstairs with the pee stick, and handed it to him. Then we sat beside one another on the sofa saying deep, meaningful things like 'Shit,' and 'We're going to have to grow up then,' and so on. We had been ttc but it still came as a bit of a shock to the system!

I showed him the stick to confirm but he'd already figured (he'd realised I'd not had a period).

Both times I woke him up at 5am, saying "is that a line? It looks like a line. I think it's a line. Do you see a line?".

I love these stories!

I had picked one up during our Asda shop for about £1 (do them every now and then as I run my pills together so don't get periods).
I had been off work a week or so before with really bad pain, no period, and overwhelming exhaustion.

As I walked to the bathroom I nearly collapsed, my legs went like jelly, I just knew. Done the test and showed him. He was so happy he was crying then proceeded to call ppl "guess wit mate..." Had to tell him to stop.

Turns out I was 12 weeks on. Fast forward to now (17 weeks) and he is trying to "parent" every single child he comes across

The first time: handed him the stick, said 'I'm pregnant but we shouldn't get too excited because it's such early days' [I was right, I miscarried a week or two later]. He said 'have you wee-d on this?'
Second time: handed him the stick, said 'Let's hope this one works out!' [it didn't; miscarriage two]
Third time: he found me crying in the bathroom and I showed him the stick and said 'I'm going to have another fucking miscarriage' [I was right; miscarriage three]
Fourth time: made him sit in the bathroom with me while I tested (he appears to have been less fussed about my wee by then), then burst into tears again when it was positive and said 'I don't think I can do this again' [so far turns out I didn't have to, I'm 28 weeks pregnant today]

Sorry, I know that isn't the kind of happy story you wanted! To be honest I feel two things when I read stories about big, elaborate announcements:

1. Intensely jealous, because I can't imagine what it's like having that happy confidence that everything will work out and a line on a stick will turn into a baby
2. Really, really glad that we didn't have any 'daddy' t-shirts, or keyrings, or cards or whatever lying around the house when the bad news came

We found out together so I didn't need to tell :)

@LisaSimpsonsbff how awful for u! I haven't experienced a miscarriage but my mother did, a lot, after my brother and I. She used to say it was punishment for abandoning my brother and I (it wasn't obv) and a whole other manner of self blaming went on. (She did successfully conceive and had another 2 children)

The mental affect it has can be horrendous, I think it u are very strong woman to have gotten through it 3 times in a row.

I'm very happy that everything went well for ur current pregnancy xoxo

First one we did the test together after one month TTC. Both v down when it was negative even though we knew that was silly.

3 days later I had a big boozy client event and still no period so tested again at work and had to ring him!! He was over the moon.

Second was a few months earlier than we'd planned to start trying, and we were part way through relocating 200 miles away. I think his exact words were, "you're fucking kidding me!!!"

He loves her to bits now she's here!!

I didn’t want to make a huge deal of it, as early pregnancy is so precarious. I came out of the bathroom and said “I think I’m pregnant” and explained I’d just done a positive test

Same here, with all 3. Didn’t get too excited initially with any of them as it was such early days. Just found out I’m pregnant with DC3 and will be feeling very cautious for a while yet.

He tells me when I'm pregnant (have had multiple miscarriages). I get very weird about smells around 10 dpo. He's always right.

We did it together, then spent 10 minutes deciding whether it was a line or not. DH concluded “shit the bed, that’s a line”.

We had had two previous MCs and had been TTC for 10 months...I had a false positive the month before so had promised that I wouldn't test until I was due on. I had the familiar metallic taste in my mouth so took a sneaky test three days early, then another one...and another one! On the day AF was due I took a proper digital one and passed it to OH saying I was too scared to look - he burst into tears and so did I. She's now coming up for two and even to this day he doesn't know that I already knew I was pregnant!!

With my DD I just kind of blurted out whilst I was driving at 70mph down to Kingston Upon Thames that I thought I was pregnant and we should maybe do a test. I was 19 years old.
DD is now 17 I'm 37

After losing one of my tubes and being told that I'd need ivf to conceive again I am currently nursing a big hope that this month I could be pg.

I'd love to be able to thank my wonderful DP on my birthday for my 'extra present'

Esp as my STBXH has just had a baby with his girlfriend I didn't know about either!
I'm genuinely pleased for him and sent congratulations.
Please please let it be my turn

I woke him up and forced him to take a pregnancy test too because I had such old cheap tests that I was worried I’d gotten a false positive (scientist here) He then asked if it was his! Cheeky shit (joke of course!). Best of luck to you.

I was very sick throwing up all the time. Tests came back as negative. I went to the doctor and they tested for everything but pregnancy the first time because I insisted I couldn't be pregnant. I was anemic and had low B12 with low blood pressure.

My doctor sent me to my obn because the hormone levels were off. I'd had my regular periods but they were very heavy. My obn scanned my tummy looking for fibroids and found a baby. I was about 14-17 weeks. Obn got a bit panicked and called the maternal fetal medicine unit to get me an appointment ASAP. I drove straight there and was scanned with lovely doctor (boyfriend of one of the real housewives of New Jersey) confirmed I was pregnant and baby was fine as was I. I called DH who was at the airport getting on the plane to take off to Houston. I told him I was pregnant and was doing genetic blood testing now but would update when he landed. DH said it was the longest flight of his life and his colleague from HQ who was with him poured him a double scotch.