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

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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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TheOnlyWayIsEnfield · 09/05/2011 07:23

Some quality stories, thanks for sharing!

DH is already is super-decorating, hunter-gatherer, male nesting mode, and has barely made it to the sofa in about 2 months, so this is going to send him into orbit!

Am now off to work to face a day of not telling anyone.

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rachyaimeelou · 15/05/2011 10:34

my oh was jus about to go and watch blackburn rovers with his dad and id been dyin to take the test all mornin but because hed been rushin around all mornin i didnt have chance to do the test with him there so i thot sod it, snuck into the bathroom and cornered him in the bedroom n jus basically said...ur gonna be a daddy!!! :-D the reaction i got wasnt wat i was expecting, i jus gues he didnt no wat to say coz his expression was more :-OOO, not only that it was his birthday party that night aswell so it was fun tryin to explain to our friends why i wasnt drinkin lol

msbuggywinkle · 15/05/2011 10:57

With DD1, I did the test with him in the room.

DD2 and the one due in Dec I rang him and said 'guess what?'. Both times he was with a client!

Beesok · 15/05/2011 12:00

The first time I did the test early on a Sunday morning so totally jumped on him in bed when it came positive - sadly we had a MMC with this one I was having a bad day at work and had a hunch so for some reason tested on a Thursday evening 2 days before my period totally expecting a negative and ooops! there was a faint line! Hubby was away on a business trip so I texted him ;)))))

OppositeOfBlooming · 15/05/2011 12:05

"DH this here stick says I'm pregnant"

"Jolly good. Biscuit?"

cookielove · 15/05/2011 12:19

My sister lives in Canada but we contact each other regularly through skype, she called up my parents, then me and then my brother, on each phone call she sent an image named freddie, i thought oh no not another cat, but nope it was her first scan image, (soooo happy) named freddie the fetus by her dh.

UtterlyMonkey · 15/05/2011 12:47

We were in NY, boobs were sore and AF was nowhere to be seen. Did a test while DH watched TV in the bedroom, whilst counting to 20 for me. I emerged with the stick and said, "Umm, congratulations, I think you're going to be a daddy!" His reply was a great big bear hug followed by "Geez, no more sushi then?!" (This was later followed by me wolfing down a small platter of fresh oysters at Grand Central Station )

Fraochsmum · 15/05/2011 13:12

What a lovely thread, some great stories!
I did a test on the morning of our anniversary, as we had been out celebrating the night before and the wine wasn't going down as well as usual. I put the stick in an envelope and gave it to DH as a 'present'...he cried! S/he's due in 8 weeks

Abcinthia · 15/05/2011 13:17

I text him saying I was pregnant. Not very exciting.

PotteringAlong · 15/05/2011 14:33

my DH told me! I'd done the test with him there but left it in the bathroom as it started to rain and I needed to get the washing off the line! He wanted to go and look at it when we got back in and he just showed me and gave me a massive hug

juststarting · 15/05/2011 18:40

I was lucky - I tested six days before his birthday and then wrapped the positive test, with a gift tag from the new baby, which he thought was from our son. He looked SO confused at unwrapping a little white stick, but was really happy when it clicked.

Vix286 · 15/05/2011 18:47

It was the first month we had tried and I tested while he was at the gym as I thought I was being stupid expecting it to happen first time.

I saw him walking down the road from the upstairs window and was waiting in the hallway when he walked in saying "its raining" and then "whats wrong? Why are you looking like that???"

I started rambling about feeling a bit sick and coffee tasting funny and buying a test that morning in Sainsburys to which he cut through and just went - "you're pregnant aren't you?"

I said "yes" and then he just went "brilliant"

It makes me smile thinking about it now, but if we have another I'd like to tell him in a nicer way than the hallway!! He thought the look on my face was that someone (else - we've had a lot of bad luck) had died in the family - oops! :)

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