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How did you tell your dp....?

34 replies

Clandy · 19/08/2011 21:44

Hello ladies. When I found out bout unplanned dd the news was hard to break and I just blurted it out whilst oh was eating grapes (which he nearly choked on!!) we are now planning dc2 and oh is unbelievably happy and excited. I wanted a really good way of telling him the news (when it comes) and got me thinking how did you ladies do it? (ps I am a sucker for a good happy story (to have a good happy cry at)

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ginmakesitallok · 21/08/2011 08:47

With DD2 he was sitting watching the football - I came into the living room with test in hand and all I could say was "fucking hell!""

With DD1 I remmeber sitting in living room with him, looking at the line nad just being overjoyed

pommedechocolat · 21/08/2011 08:52

With dd I came home after work went to the loo and then presented him with a dripping pee stick and a shocked face. He didn't speak for about 10 mins!

With this pg dd was up at half five so I did a test and then woke him up to show it to him and make him go to the window to see it as the line was super faint. I did remember to wipe it down this time though!

PoppysMom · 22/08/2011 06:01

We hadn't really been TTC yet, but were in our first month of "practising".
I woke up around 5:30 on a Sunday morning and took the test. I then looked at it through very sleepy eyes, but wasn't sure if it was a second line, or not. Went to wake DH and just kept blurting out that he had to come and take a look. He finally got up and squinted at the test.
He then just hugged me very tightly and we stayed that way for a while before trotting back to bed for some more sleep :)

Hopefully I will be able to make it a bit more romantic next time round

KatyN · 22/08/2011 15:51

these are lovely stories.. when I took the test I bought it at lunch but had to wait until I saw DH to pee on it because I was SOOO Freaked out.. so we both found out at the same time...

BUT we were waitnig for the green light from the hospital to start TTC because of some meds I take.. I got the letter when he was out and knew I had to be out before he came back.. I put the letter on the floor infront of a condom with a pins stuck through it just to make the point clear that they were NOT ALLOWED near me for a while.

I think he thought it was a bit of a waste of a perfectly good condom!!!

notcitrus · 22/08/2011 16:52

With ds: I was going through the post just before going to bed around midnight, mostly chucking it straight in the recycling. There's a boring-looking letter. It says "Dear NC, Your recent blood tests show you are pregnant. Please see one of the GPs ASAP." and if you POAS now it should be positive.

So I shakingly go upstairs gibbering "MrNC? Er... MrNC...? MrNC??" - we'd given up after 7 years, clomid failure, etc. I give him the letter, which takes him a lifetime to read.
Eventually he goes "Do you think they're right? Actually, do you have a stick to pee on?"
Somehow I find stick, stop trembling enough to pee on it, get almost instant fat purple line, and start gibbering again. And then present him with the stick.
He's about to ask what the lines mean but it's obvious from my face.

By the next day I was convinced it was just a tumour, especially when GP said I must be 14-16 weeks but he was 'a big old poof so what do I know?'
Had a scan a few days later, phoned MrNC and all I could say was "It's not a tumour!" before spending most of the next week giggling like a loon.

This time wasn't nearly as dramatic - I just spent a few weeks going 'I feel crap. I might be pregnant. No period. But I'm almost certainly not pregnant. Again. Woe is me' - for about the 4th time. Eventually MrNC frogmarched me to the bathroom to 'pee on a bloody stick already'.
And again I came out just gibbering his name with a huge smile.
I've had two scans and still don't really believe it. After the 20-week one it might sink in!

SpannerPants · 22/08/2011 17:03

My period was late which was odd since I was on the pill (and hadn't missed any), but I felt like I had PMT so I wasn't worried. My mum thought I should do a test just to be sure, so I bought the cheapest test I could find in Tesco.

I waited until the next morning and DP woke up to tell me that he dreamt I was pregnant. When he heard me swearing from the bathroom he knew that I was! (not exactly planned and we'd only been living together for 2 months). Cue a lot of soul-searching and I must have spent at least £20 on tests before I believed it.

DS is now 5.5 weeks old and snoring on my lap Grin

Clandy · 22/08/2011 19:01

Aww some more lovely stories Smile and congrats spanner on your new baby GrinGrin

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Clandy · 22/08/2011 19:03

And congrats to you notcitrus sure time will fly by til 20 week scan and all will be perfect Grin

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BellaCB · 23/08/2011 18:51

We weren't trying (though we had been thinking about starting) but my period was a week late. I thought I was just a bit stressed but texted a friend and asked how she had felt at 8 weeks, as we had had an accident 6 weeks before so I thought if I was pg I would be quite far on. She said she had felt awful whereas I felt incredibly well, but convinced me to take a test 'to make my period come'. I was genuinely convinced I wasn't pg and told DP not to worry about it!! I left the test brewing in the bathroom but DP was fidgeting about the result so I told him to go and check - I followed him in to the bathroom, he picked up the test, and then he just went, "Oh..." Grin Bless him, he was very good considering this was all a big surprise and a bit early! Better than me, in fact, as I sat down very heavily on the loo and lit a cigarette!!!!

Hopefully next time will be a more romantic story!

Oh, and 'felt incredibly well'? Our dates were wrong, I was only a few weeks pg, and the next week chronic ms kicked in and I'm still puking 3 months later... Smile I'll never count my chickens ever again!

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