What was your partner's reaction to positive test?

[LuckyOwl28]

Initially my husband was in complete denial, couldn't believe it was true.

When I showed him the test and he checked the instructions to compare results he hid under the covers for ages in silence, then popped his head out and said (referring to himself and his cushty lifestyle)

"Does this mean Peter Pan has finally got to grow up"?

What about yours??

DD: (he knew I was POAS)
DS: (he didn't know I had POAS)

His first sentence was "You are shitting me".

He then went silent for a long long time. Once that ended he didn't believe I was pregnant and insisted the line was too faint. He was still in part denial the night before the 12 week scan and asked me to do another test "so we don't look like a bunch of fools at the hospital".

His expression and reaction when they told us it was twins the next day is a whole different story!

I like your husband's first sentence!

"It's a bit soon...". On loop. For over an hour, until I suggested he think of something more positive to say.

We had been married a year (but hadn't been together that long before we got married, admittedly, but it wasn't like we'd only been together a fortnight or something...

He came around...
Wouldn't have had it any other way in retrospect.

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Are you sure? Wow!
DH much keener than me to have kids (he's 6 years older) but thought it would take longer!

im not trusting some old test thats been in your bag for ages we are going to get a new test... to which i replied enjoy the embaressment of buying it yourself while i wait in the car

DH "I know, your boobs are massive. I've suspected for about a week"
me "well you could have told me"

These are hilarious!

Men ey

First time (planned) "I'm gonna be a dad!" "fuck, I can't believe it, we're having a baby! I'm gonna be a dad!" Non stop for about a week.

Dc2 (not planned but very much loved and wanted now) "oh shit, are you sure?"

On honeymoon, having DTD unprotected twice preceding the wedding. AF still technically not overdue as I'm a bit irregular and DH looks me up and down & says "You're pregnant".

A week later, doing the test, he sees the result before me & says "You're pregnant". Cue big smiles, kisses & cuddles

This time, I tested alone while he was out, as I was feeling dizzy & weird a lot & wanted to rule it out as it were, so txt him the news. I didn't get much of a response, although he did say "That's good" but less enthusiastic than with DD, I think due to a very early loss the previous month. Once it was clear it was a 'sticky one' he was pleased.:)

First baby, dancing round the bathroom, crying, laughing, it had taken us 3 years.
Second, "bloody hell I wasn't expecting to wake up to that this morning!" about 10 days after unprotected sex.
Third baby "thank god we don't have to fork out for another round of ivf!" "I can't see a line. You are imagining it." "are you sure that's not just the meds making a false line"

DP: How did that happen???
Me: Do I really need to explain it?

We'd been trying for less than a fortnight, I'd literally just come off the pill.

'I can't stop thinking about what sports car I am going to buy myself as a reward when you have the baby'

Closely followed by 'I was so happy this morning and now you have ruined my day' when I called him to say I'd had a bleed and feared the worse.

He is either asperges or completely self-absorbed. The jury is out....

"Does that mean I have to get up?"

To be fair I did take the test at about 5:30am. My reaction was fits of giggles! We were told we had practically zero change of it happening naturally (3yrs TTC) and were waiting for IVF to begin!

First time, I paged him "call me. have news that can't wait"
I didn't even need to tell him, he knew and he drove straight home and we celebrated.

second time, I walked out of the bathroom and met him on the stairs, he looked at me and said "you're pregnant" and we then looked at our not yet one year old firstborn and thought 'oh shit'

no2 was born when no1 was 15 months old.

I phoned home at 10.30pm whilst away on a business trip (sudden urge to drive to Tesco and buy a test!) "really? are you sure? how did that happen? omg, wow" sunk in the next day, but he did make me do a dig one! I had tested three weeks previously and had a feint pos and three negs, so we were a bit confused!

"Bloody hell, that was quick!" followed by lots of grinning and hugging.

First time I had an inkling do he took me to sainsburys at about 9pm on a weds night to buy a test (we saw about 5people we knew!!) came home, I POAS but couldn't look at the result so DH did and a massive grin spread across his face, first month TTC!
This time I had another inkling so POAS whilst DH was at work and just txt him a photo of the faint line asking 'do u see it too??' and he called me STRAIGHT back!!

"Get rid of it"
"you've ruined my life"
"get it sucked out of you"
"I wish I could kick you down the stairs/punch you in the stomach and kill it"
"you're going to get flabby and lazy, end up sitting on the sofa stuffing your face all day"

In response to telling him he was going to be a father, we had been together 2 years and were living together. Heard these and more on a loop for months. I was stupid not to leave him.

I am currently 14 weeks pregnant and we had split up by the time i found out. He paced round the room saying "no no no" and "fuck" but wouldn't comment further as everything he had said and done the first time was used against him in court recently

He has since said he "isn't that disappointed" (wow thanks) although only last night when I said I was off to the shop to get paracetamol as I only had ibuprofen and couldn't take that he said "go on take it you never know I might get lucky and it'll cause a miscarriage"

He is such a charmer. Glad I'm rid of him ironically he adores his Dc and insists on seeing him everyday, how things change

Its ok babe, i'll look after you, stand by you etc - err, it wasn't planned but we had been together 15 years i had kind of taken it as read that he would stick around :) Then he got all randy

DH's first word when I told him was "Bollocks!". Not that he wasn't happy about it but he was just in complete disbelief, as we'd been trying for four years and waiting on ivf. I'd spend the journey home from work moaning as boots had no own brand tests and I'd had to buy a FR, and complaining about how much money we'd wasted on pg tests over the years

We were both but a bit too, it took days to sink in!

"Well, it's hardly surprising"

Both times.

Not known for extremes of emotion my DH.

1st time: "Ok, I'll come to yours after school so we can talk about it"

I have to give him credit, he was very calm and it never occoured to me that he would do anything other than stick by me. We had only been together about 8 weeks and were 16 years old.

2nd time (6 years later, married, TTC for 1 month): "Yeah? We'll go and get one of the expensive tests tomorrow to find out for sure"

I did the second test to put his mind at rest and he said "Right, make it a girl this time please!" (it is a girl!)

Orange, your DO sounds sweet. It is the same DP for both, isn't it?

Oh no you won't be. These things take ages.