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? ☺️

We'd been suffering infertility and trying for years. I'd pretty much given up.

I poas just because the night before he'd lit a match and I'd thrown up from the smell and thrown his dinner out of the window.

He bought one on the way to the ski hill for that day and I was just going to do it in the toilets there as I was convinced I wasn't pregnant. I wasn't even tracking dates anymore at that point.

He drove home and said he didn't want me doing it in a public toilet.

Thank god he did because I lost my shit. Utterly and completely. He was in the next room and came running in after I started screaming at the top of my lungs. I threw myself on the floor and was hysterically sobbing. He couldn't figure out what was wrong I was so upset .

I then ran outside (in -35 weather) and ran down he road screaming then rang back in and phoned everyone I knew and told them! Thankfully nothing went wrong as it has many times since.

We then ditched the skiing trip (one day in and all paid for) to race back 5 hours drive to tell his parents. Who just looked annoyed that we disturbed their watching the news.

Every time it's happened since my first miscarriage (there have been a lot) it's been awful. I don't even tell him anymore. My heart actually sinks now when I see a faint double line.

I just called out from the bathroom "well I'm pregnant" we had only been trying for a month and we were convinced it was going to take months because I'm in my late 30's so we're shocked that it had happened so quickly! We then kissed and had a quick hug before going to tell his mum ( my mum is no longet with us)

Saw second very faint blue line, went a bit hot and cold, went and got two cheapie strip kinds, saw two further suspicious shadows, went to find him and garbled something at him like ‘follow me’, led him to them, pointed, garbled some more.

Then we went to the chemist to buy first response test just in case. That one convinced him.

DH had a plan that he wanted to tell both our parents by making a gingerbread house with a pregnant gingerbread lady's inside for pudding on Christmas Day. (we don't see them in person very often) I was doing the hoovering and just decided to poas. Was so shocked it was positive I just continued with the hoovering! Then I took a pot of ground ginger up to DH and said "I guess you'll be needing this then"

Then we had to make the gingerbread house and get it to stand up!

We did the test together, why wouldn't you if you had the choice? It was a lovely feeling finding out together
The 2nd and 3rd time I knew before I'd missed my period as i had slight sharp pains in my lower abdomen and spotting, which stopped straight away, so I said I think I'm pregnant and we did a test and I was sadly the 2nd time wasn't meant to be, but I have 2 gorgeous boys now

We did the test together, why wouldn't you if you had the choice?

After well over a year of negative tests, it became less of an exciting event and more of.a ‘I’d better take a test just to check even though I’m sure it’ll be negative again’. We took the test together for about the first 8 months then there didn’t seem to be much point.
When I got my BFP I’d taken the test and left it on the side when DH was at work, didn’t even bother going back to check for a while as I assumed it would be another negative. Bit of a shock when it wasn’t.
I have fantastic memories of when I told DH (met him from work and went for a walk in the park, and told him there), so the fact we didn’t find out together is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

I’d known for a week but was worried to tell him because he was in the middle of exams.

He knew something was up though and asked if I was pregnant. I just looked at him and he burst into some kind of happy-nervous laughter.

Period was a week late. We had been ttc so no surprises. We bought a stick and off i toddled to the bathroom. The line appeared before i had finished peeing, but we waited 5 minutes anyway. So i guess i knew before DH, but only by a margin.

We were a bit shell shocked! Even though we were actively ttc. Sil was 3 months pregnant at the time and was delighted for us, our dc are now very close.

I'm not one for big pinterest/rom-com reveals.

Had first child via IVF a few months back, told couldn't conceive naturally. I had started feeling pregnant and then wanted 5 packets of beef Monster Munch in a row and wanted to scream in happiness in Tescos that I had found beef Monster Munch. DH was with me when I tested told him it was positive he looked at it and the box and said OMG you are more pregnant than the box, you must be having twins.

I took about 10 tests in 2 days "just to make sure" and then told him after I tested digitally when I came back from work.
He nearly knocked the chair over standing up and gave me a big cuddle.

I always thought I'd like to do a big reveal but so far it's not gone that way. I first got pregnant on the pill when me and now DH had only been together a year. I did 6 tests whilst he was at work and handed them all to him when he got home, he asked me if they were real. I'm not sure which of us was more shocked tbh
Second time we had started TTC. It was our first try and I had only just come off the pill the month before so didn't know what my cycle was like. My period was four days late if on a normal 28 day cycle so I did a test just in case, thinking along the lines of proving I'm not pregnant so I can try to keep track of my cycle. Only for me to yell "it's fucking positive!" from the bathroom.
If we have a third baby maybe I'll try and find a more dignified way of letting DH know.

Best wishes OP. Hope you get your positive soon!

Mine were IVF. First round, but infertility makes you doubt your luck so I didn't think it had worked. Retrospectively, I had a few symptoms but I'd written those off as caused by the IVF drugs.

Woke up at 6am with my husband. He'd taken the day off work as he knew if it failed we'd want to hang out together. I peed on the stick in the bathroom and then stuck it under a flannel as I couldn't bear to look. He looked for me. I can't remember what we said to one another but I remember being beside myself with excitement and happiness. We rang my in laws (who'd got up early to wait by the phone - they were the only people we told about the IVF cycle as we couldn't face telling everyone it had failed) and then we went for breakfast.

We spent the whole day grinning at one another saying "I can't believer it...."

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I just showed him the positive test and we stared at it in shock for a while. I don’t really get how people can keep it to themselves for a few days in order to make the ‘perfect’ announcement. I’d be really annoyed if my husband kept an important piece of news to themselves!

Second month of trying and on the day my period was due I had awful cramps so said to DH 'oh well, definitely not pregnant, pub?'

Two days later with the world's worst hangover... 'fucking hell, I think I'm actually pregnant' thrusting pissy stick into his hand . It was magical. I have since learned that period pain and fertilised embryo bedding in feel very much alike!

I'd suspected for a few days but was convinced it was too soon for me to be showing symptoms. I did a test but the line was so very very faint we weren't sure so we decided to wait a few days. A couple days later I woke up at 4am and I just knew, so I took a digital test that morning which was a BFP. As I normally wake earlier than DH I always make our coffees in the morning and bring hi his in bed. I brought our coffees up as normal and handed him his and said, oh but mine is decaff. And he said, why? And then I told him. Low key but sweet. But as I waited for him to wake I had a few hours of being the only person in the world who knew DD was on her way and that was kind of special. Good luck OP!

I told him I was going to poas and did he want to wait for the results together he said no
Test was positive so I phoned him and he said ‘oh’
Not quite the romantic moment I had in mind