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How did you tell your dh/dp you're pregnant?

37 replies

TheOnlyWayIsEnfield · 08/05/2011 17:52

I have just poas and got a positive result! We have been trying, but in a really laid-back way. I think I must be about 2 weeks pregnant. Never thought it would happen so soon! :o

Himself is out at work til early doors tomorrow morning. I am just entertaining myself by wondering how I am going to tell him the news.

Anyone got a story?

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 08/05/2011 17:56

well I weed on a stick with him there...
we were on Chistmas break with his family and came out of the bathroom looking sheepish with big grins - didn't tell them then so have no idea what they thought we were up to for 3 mins... hahaha!!

onesuzymac · 08/05/2011 17:58

Sent a picture of a pretty blue + sign :o

memphis83 · 08/05/2011 17:59

I totally ruined this moment by ringing my dh in hysterics while he was at work on lunch ordering his baguette so he was saying whats wrong?? ooh yes a cheese salad, whats wrong memphis?? yes with onion....please calm down, why you crying....oh and salad cream please. I was so shocked that I didnt think about telling him in a lovely way and just cried down the phone, dont even know why i was crying, im going to watch this thread and take notes for if we have another and i can tell him face to face Grin
congratulations and good luck!!!

CravingExcitement · 08/05/2011 18:01

Boringly, I just said "I'm pregnant" Grin

bleachbabe · 08/05/2011 18:05

I screamed out "Shit!!!" really loudly from the bathroom, and DH came running upstairs in a panic

It was a happy but slightly scared, awe-struck "shit" btw Grin

ghosteditor · 08/05/2011 18:06

When he got home I just said "there's big news!" and showed him a photo of the BFP. Don't think he was overly impressed with the delivery but was pretty pleased with the news!

Congrats and good luck!

mashpot · 08/05/2011 18:09

My DH works shifts and came home around midnight, I had fallen asleep in bed watching tv and he woke me up to say hello and I said half asleep I think I'm pregnant. We were trying but he was quite shocked I think as I didn't tell him I was testing. I went back to sleep and he had a whiskey!

lolajane2009 · 08/05/2011 18:10

My poor hubby was sleeping on the study floor after a night shift and I leapt on top of him thrusting the positive test in his face. I was a little excited after trying for 8 years...

Imnotaslimjim · 08/05/2011 18:13

I ran out of the loo with the BFP and threw the stick at him. Only remembered after it bounced off his head that I'd just peed on it, and showered him in my pee lol

I was a little more restrained with DD's BFP - we'd both been up all night with DS (he had tonsilitis) I had an inkling that I was, so POAS while DS napped. Took test back to bed, woke him and showed him and got a "thats lovely" as he drifted off back to sleep. He woke 20 mins later and shook me awake with "are we having a baby???" I told him yes and went back to sleep pmsl

CrazyAlien06 · 08/05/2011 18:27

My DH was putting down new flooring in our living room when I poas, I went to see him and he told me to not stand there lol. Then just said " what does this look like to you?" he then said positive and had a huge smile, then went back to his flooring lol. The worse thing was that he had a mate coming round any min to help him with flooring!so I dashed out to get digital to see how far I was, then smuggled it in past his mate under my coat lol , did it- it said 3+ then I didn't get to speak to him about it until the next day as he and his mate went to pub lol.
I was hungover anyway so the whole day was a bit of a daze lol

CBear6 · 08/05/2011 18:27

First time I ran out of the loo at 7am, stark naked, shouting my head off about two lines. Found him in the kitchen, we hugged and cried (we'd been trying for three years), his first words were "we're going to be late for work so go get dressed".

Second time he told me to do a test because I was late and in denial. I went and peed on the stick, came back in the front room and got him to check it (I hadn't even looked). He said negative. I picked it up a few seconds/minutes later to chuck it in the bin and there was a very faint second line. We argued debated it for a little while and I was eventually packed off to Asda to buy another because he was adamant it was a dud. I bought one of every brand I could find, drank a huge glass of water, and then peed on them all one after another. All positive. DS arrived the following summer :)

Third time I missed my period but put off taking a test for a week because we were moving house. I had to swing by the old flat to oil up the post before sending the keys back. My mum was supposed to meet me but it was chucking it down with rain so I hid in the shops, browsing. I needed a wee and was passing a chemist so I bought a test, went back to the old flat, peed on it. It was positive. DH rang me just as the second line popped up and I didn't want to tell him over the phone but ended up doing that. He couldn't hear me because of a bad signal so I had to bellow it and half the street heard.

Fourth one (DD, due September) I had an inkling I was pregnant and did a test in 16th December which was negative. DH: "I told you so". I still couldn't shake the feeling I was pregnant, it was nothing specific, I just couldn't get the idea out of my head. Christmas Day I chucked my starter up, couldn't eat the turkey because it tasted funny, and just felt pregnant. New Years Eve I decided to do another test. Two lines, straight away. Ran into the living room to tell DH, bubbling with happiness and waving a pee soaked stick in his face. DH: "oh shit".

He was happy really!

GnomeDePlume · 08/05/2011 18:37

With DD1 - I was upstairs, called to DH 'DH, have you got a minute?'. We had been trying for close to 2 years and I had weed on so many sticks to no good purpose that I was just very matter of fact.

DS - I honestly cant remember!

With DD2 - I was having a scan to find out what was going on as I had been fitted with a coil and there was some concern that there might be something wrong. Sonographer said 'there's no problem, the coil is still there and you are 17 weeks and 5 days pregnant!' DH and I looked at each other and said 'here we go again'

Eviepoo · 08/05/2011 18:47

This is a funny thread, I felt different two days before I was dueish (my cycle varies between 31 and 34 days) so I decided to do a test the next morning as soon as I woke which was a Tuesday. I got some of the sensitive ones from my work and as soon as I woke I sleepily peed in a tiny pot and held the stick in. After about 3-4 minutes there was no line, so went back to bed and noticed as I passed the clock it was only 3.30am.
Went to work that day still thinking 'but I feel different', but convinced myself to wait as that was only day 30 and the previous month P didn't arrive til day 34 (about an hour after a BFN) but by the Thursday night I was struggling to keep convinced that I didn't feel different. So thought ok - when I wake again I will test first pee of day. Again I woke did the same routine except this time thought to myself control line is taking forever, so read the leaflet while waiting, the leaflet said - results show between 5 and 15 minutes. Thought to myself there is no way I left it 5 minutes+ on Tues so looked in the bin - the Tues test was a huge BFP - but as the leaflet said don't read after 15 minutes I decided to wait out for the new one. After about 6 or 7 minutes there was a faint line but I went through to bedroom to wake DH and say - is this a line?, after a few minutes looking at it we realised yip defo a line. I felt better that I knew - that I wasn't going crazy. Only then did I look at the clock, it was 3.30am again. That was us up for the day, he was so excited we lay in bed making plans.
That was 17 Dec and by Christmas and New Year with our families I was suffering big time, how they did not realise I do not know :)
Little did I now that was the beginning of the night time wakings, at 25w I haven't had more than 5 hours in one go since I wake up on average every 2.5hours :)

theonlyhb2 · 08/05/2011 18:55

i did mine at work, and then called boyf with bad signal and putting him on hold 3 times (accidently, stupid touch screens) whilst saying its positive.....

then I went home and did another but he didnt even wait 40 seconds in the bathroom with me, I came out and he was back playing call of duty with his best friend so I handed them both the pee covered stick :)

setara · 08/05/2011 19:09

i just felt wierd the for a few days so on the day my period was due i took a test to make myself feel better, i was so stunned when it was BFP that i just took the stick to my dp in the kitchen and said "erm i've just taken a test",

"are you saying we might be"

"No i'm saying we ARE"

lol still makes me giggle now and dd is 18months old :o

luluzulu · 08/05/2011 21:49

i had been ill with what i thaught was food poisoning,had docs appointment, had my suspisions i was pregnant so done a test, he rang but didnt ask about how docs went then just before the end of the conversation he said 'oh and what did the doctor say?' i replied that it was JUST morning sickness, there was a pause then he said 'its what' then he said 'oh'. lol both very suprised but happy all the same

MissCKitty · 08/05/2011 22:00

I simply wondered into the lounge in a daze and handed him the stick! It was a totally 'oh shit' moment but in a good way. Both of us were in shock as I was told 18 months before that due to pcos i'd struggle to conceive naturally. We just sat on the sofa in silence for about an hour looking at the stick and then spent the next few days wondering round going 'damn we're pg' Grin

Valiant1 · 08/05/2011 22:13

With ds1 my dh was sat on the computer and he said well no more (he is 14yrs older and has a dd.

with dd i wasn't feeling right so bought a test dh was putting stuff up the ladder in to the attic and i came out the bathroom and said "i'm pregnant!" he nearly fell of pmsl...... was funny!

ds2 was just a erm "we having another baby" dd was only 4mths

and with dc 4 due in sept i was going for the coil fitted and was asked to POAS so i did and well it was a BFP, i kept saying "oh bugger, oh dear, oh well" then when i got home i couldn't tell him lol i sat on the bed and kept on "erm erm well" then just blurtted out "I'm pregnant!!!!!"

Flisspaps · 08/05/2011 22:21

I felt hungover two days after a session and knew something wasn't right, we'd been trying but not, so POAS, and then stuck it on the mantlepiece in the living room and DH was on the PC. After 3 mins, checked it, went white, turned to DH and said "Shit, it's positive"

My face Shock Confused Shock
His face Grin Grin Grin

Flisspaps · 08/05/2011 22:22

May I add that shortly after I was Grin Grin Grin too

H007 · 08/05/2011 22:24

We are in the process of buying/finding a house and was chatting about decorating and I said "we'll have to make sure it's all done in around 7months" and he was like "why" and I said "well at least the nursey anyhows" and he was still like "why" and I said "cos that's when the baby will be here here" he was very shocked and sat with mouth open for quite a while hahahaha

apricotears · 08/05/2011 22:26

I was up at the crack of dawn on boxing day to go to work and decided to test because I just didn't feel right. Period was late by about a week, but I was in denial as I had just gone off the pill and it had been a bit all over the place for the previous couple of months. I did the test (at about 5am), and could barely believe my eyes when the second line appeared! I couldn't process the information on my own, so ran straight into DH who was sleeping soundly, jumped onto the bed and threw the stick into his face whispering (careful not to wake the visiting in-laws sleeping in the next room) 'I think I'm pregnant!' Poor guy was incapable of processing the information in his comatose sleepy state, but still managed a smile and cuddle for me! I then, slipped out of the room telling him 'Okay, go back to sleep now! HAHAHA! Yeah right, a few minutes later he was up and about, bouncing off the walls like me (this is our first!). Next time, I think I hope I will be able to keep it to myself long enough to arrange a special way to share the news with him.

CBear6 · 08/05/2011 22:44

DH's reaction to me being in labour with DS was even better than his laid back approach to the positive tests - "how far apart are they? ... I'm away back to bed for a bit then".

I wanted to think of lovely ways to tell my parents. With my first I was going to tell them face to face but ended up telling them over the phone with the words "I'm pregnant and bleeding, can I have a lift to the hospital please?". With DS I ended up blurting it out over the phone when my mum was mid-sentence because I couldn't keep it to myself for longer than three seconds. With my third I made the mistake of letting it slip to my youngest brother (then aged 9yo) at the front door, he ran into the living room and shouted "guess what!? That DH has knocked our CBear up again!!!" in a scandalised voice. With this one I had no choice but to tell them, I found out on NYE, my mum poured me a huge vodka, I turned it down, she guessed I was pregnant so we had to come clean.

firstsupermum · 09/05/2011 00:54

I was in holiday with my ds2, i was expecting my period but didnt came, i went to the doctor find myself pregnant, call him and ask him how many children he got? than ask him to add one to the list.
he didnt beleive it as the first one waas by ICSI.
i was excited, he was very happy but i cant see his face at time Sad.

PoppysMom · 09/05/2011 01:46

We were at home and I had come off the pill the month before, as we were going to try. We didn't actively try and DH asked me when my AF would be due, as we were 2 weeks shy of going on holiday. So I said not to worry, I would take a test the next morning, as they always bring the AF on.

I woke early (5am ish) the next morning, wandered into the bathroom POAS and then sleepily blinked at it a few times. Lo and behold a second line faintly started appearing, but as I was so sleepy, I didn't trust my eyes. Walked back in the bedroom to wake DH. He wasn't best pleased at the time I woke himon a Sunday morning, but I was too shocked to tell him why, so dragged him to the bathroom and pointed to the test.

He took a look and then just hugged me very tightly :)

We too went back to beed to cuddle and make plans