How did you break the news you were expecting?

[LoubieLou04]

Was wondering how you guys told your partners. With my 1st I told dh over the phone as was too excited to wait but now wish I'd been able to see his face. Feel next time I should make the moment alittle more special.

Dh was with me when I did the PG test so he found out at the exact same time as me.

I think next time I shall do it alone and tell him in some imaginative way. I shall watch this thread with intrest.

Haven't had to actually tell him either time, just said his name in a purposeful tone and he guessed and started beaming.

Would love to be abit imaginative next time but my huge grin from ear to ear would no doubt give the game away.

First time he come home to a kitchen counter covered in test sticks (at least eight... ) so guessed.

Second time I put the test stick in an envelope and got ds to give him it.

Bit grotty actually - all that wee in envelopes and on kitchen coutners.

I hung a newborn bodysuit on the outside of our front door - the look on his face when he walked into the house was amazing!

Dh was away on business for a week and having found out on the Monday there was no way I could wait until the Friday. I was incredibly nervous because we had always said we weren't going to have children so after a pefectly normal half hour phone call, just as he was about to put the phone down, I blurted out that I had something to tell him, and the conversation went something like:

Me: You're going to kill me.
Him: What have you done? Bloody hell, you've crashed the car!
Me: Noooo ... Oh, God, you'll never forgive me for this!
Him: It can't be the car, the car's at the airport - oh God, you've killed the cat!
Me: Noooo ... oh, bugger, I can't tell you like this. You're going to hate me!
Him: You've set fire to the f-ing house!
Me: Noooo - itlookslikeImightsortofbepregnant
Him: Oh, fantastic! (pause) I thought you were on the Pill?
Me: Yes, so did I.
Him: It's Ben Elton!
Me: ????
Him: Ben Elton - it's his fault!
Me: ???
Him: You were reading that book of his, Inconceivable, weren't you!

When he got home he threw the book out - he's not normally superstitious but he can't quite get round the idea that the book has something to do with it and didn't want me to read it again just in case!

i was terrified when i told Dp that i was pg as i felt like i was 15 (just dont ask me why!!) and ive never been pg before. My tongue kept on getting tied up and in the end he knew what i was gonna say and i just blurt it out saying "Im pg"... i was in denial after that till i got my first scan and i thought "Blimey, i AM pg!!! "

1st - Paged him 'phone me, have news that cant wait'. He called and I said "I'm pregnant."

2nd time I stood at foot of stairs with tester stick and looked at him. He said "You are?" I said "I am."

1st time dp was the one who told me i was pregnant. we'd been trying for 2 years and had a few false alarms etc so i a bit in denial, he was convinced i was though, even when preg test came up neg and i was sent for an early scan as the hospital was sure i'd miscarried, he never doubted for a second that i was pregnant.

2nd time i was still breastfeeding and hadn't had a period but started getting really tired and sick. we bought the test together and i did it the next morning before he got up and ran in to tell him in bed.

I almost didn't need to - it was dh who suggested doing a test! Had a meeting near Paddington station that morning so ditched my colleagues with an excuse, ran into Boots, bought a test, and ran into the ladies. Spent all day at work not paying attention at all but called dh and told him to be home on time. So he knew, but I had to tell him properly in person.

i rang him at work and he said 'worse things happen at sea' ! bizarre reaction i thought

1st time he was with me
2nd time I showed him a pos test. He was completely clueless as to what it was which spoilt it a bit as I had to explain!

DS - I did the test then ran upstairs where DP was in bed and said "X, your gunna be a Daddy" and shoved the stick at him (He claims I put it right under his nose!!) His reaction - "Wow, Thats great!..... So much for my lie in!!!!"

DD - He told me he thought I was pg... I did a test and it was so faint he made me do another... in which the colour didnt move across at all... then third one there was no mistaking it... he was over the moon!

I was sat in his bunk waiting for him to finish work when i spotted a box of jonnies. I blew them all up and scattered them round the room. when he came in he said "what the hell I was doing?" and I told him "well we won't be needing them any time soon"

I rang him at work and said "I've pissed on the stick and the line's gone blue which means I'm in pig."

He said he felt unwell and had to sit down!

1st time, we were trying to peed on a stick and waited together

2nd time...wrote in on the fridge with DS1's letter magnets

3rd time,
me:we need to move house
DP:why
ME i peed on a stick
DP:fuck off ur lying

!!!!

turns out we don't need to move

Dh phoned

me: Hello?
dh: Hello, how are you?
me: Pregnant, how are you?

5th time lucky for us. Others I had waited till he came home (away mon-fri) and did them together but had 4 mcs and got fed up of waiting just to do a test! I was a pro by this point! One we did on holiday in Greece, kinda thought I was pg so took a test with me. Dh read it first. We were on hols with friends, I said, "lets not tell any one for a while"; met them all on the beach half an hour later, my friend was in tears! Dh couldn't wait!

I made a very small father's day card from the baby.....

(last week )

1st time, got a black cab to his work (a bar in London) in time fo him finishing work (11pm). ode home on the back of his vespa with him (spare helmet was at the bar). Made him stop on Southwark Bridge & we were admiring the Thames in all its moonlit glory, then I told him. Very very special, really wonderful moment. 2nd - was so ill. DH caught me as I was about to pass out. Once concious again, he told me to do the test. No comparason really hey!!

Arrhh, congrats to Tommy!!!

Funnily enough thats how I told my Dad that he was gonna be a grandad again, in last years fathers day card. Must of been too skint to buy a pressie. Ha Ha. Enjoy the bump x

We had just come back from holiday. I had a strange feeling that I might be pregnant, did a test, came downstairs with a big grin, said 'look here' and with that he burst into tears! (of joy I may add!)

See, this is never one I could understand. I could never, ever piss on a stick without dp there to hold my hand.

DS1: started period, told dp. Few days later, realised had started, but not carried on with period, so told dp. We decided to piss on the stick, then ran away and counted 3 minutes and then went back together to look at it.

One that got away: started period, felt crap, told dp. We decided things were a bit odd and pissed on the stick and had a good old look at the blue line.

DS2: Said to DP "shouldn't period have started by now?" so we went together to Boots, bought a test, took it home together, did the test, watched it turn blue.

Doing a pg test is just not something I could ever have done alone!

1st one we were togther while i peed on the stick.

2nd time dp was at work & i could not wait till he came home so i phoned him up & said guess what? he said your pregnant arnt you sadly we lost this baby

3rd Time i phoned him again at work & said OH MY GOD....... i did not even have to finish & he said your pregnant (he knows me to well) he then decided to shout it at the top of his voice to ALL of his works mates were having a baby, bless him he was over the moon

16 yo - missed period - school unifrom pregnancy test bought by dh we both found out at same time

planned another child a few years later. found out itwas twins.

dh came over all phycic - looked at me and just said " fuck"