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Errrm.....I've done 3 PG test this morning...all were positive......tell they can all be wrong...please??!!??

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OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 12:33

Shit!

How on earth will I tell dh?

Name changed coz don't want RL to know before DH)

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Piffle · 04/05/2006 14:30

Yeah 100 million sperm and one egg, and he will still think he has super sonic sperm
Men..... too unfair to tell them how clever your one egg is...
Certainly in this case
Blame the sperm

OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:33

But piffle, the only time it could have been was about 3 days before I ovulated.

He is a stud ( but don't tell him I said that)

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OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:34

rather TMI there...I think

sure you didn't want to know that actually.

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Piffle · 04/05/2006 14:35

I have a friend who has a very active 9 mth old baby who sleeps about 3 hrs a day, she had sex once in 5 months and yep
she's pregnant - dazed confused and very very very tired.
I salute your fertility :)

hotmama · 04/05/2006 14:35

Uhm - 3 days befoe ovulation - I'm placing my bets for a girl then!

bundle · 04/05/2006 14:36

friend of mine had sex (drunken) once when ds was only about 18 mths and got pg..with twins

OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:38

Bundle!!!!

with comments like that I'll ban you from my thread

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Peachyclair · 04/05/2006 14:38

I think I know who you are from initial post too

congrats

you'll be alright

bundle · 04/05/2006 14:39

could be

triplets

OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:40

I really would be shocked if any of you guessed right.

I'm not on here enough for you all to "recognise" me.

really would be amazed.

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OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:41

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zippitippitoes · 04/05/2006 14:42

Perhaps you could email him something like this..

Up the duff

Meaning

Euphemism for pregnant. Used most commonly, although not exclusively, to describe unplanned pregnancy.

Origin

The phrase doesn't appear in print until 1941 Sydney John Baker's 'Dictionary of Australian Slang':

" Duff, up the (of a woman), pregnant."

Duff isn't a common word and seems an odd choice for a colloquial phrase. It took a rather roundabout route...

As the phrase means pregnant it shouldn't come as a major surprise that for the origin we need look no further than the penis. As with many English phrases that refer to sexual activity we dive straight into a world of euphemism and there are several obscuring layers here between penis and pregnancy.

One of the numerous slang terms for the sexual organs, or more commonly specifically the penis, is pudding. This has a long history, going back to at least the 18th century, as here from 1719:

Thomas D'Urfey, 'Wit and mirth: or pills to purge melancholy, being a collection of ballads and songs 1719':

"I made a request to prepare again, That I might continue in Love with the strain Of his Pudding".

A slang term for male masturbation, which leaves little to the imagination - 'pull one's pudding', has been known since at least the 19th century.

There is a related phrase for pregnancy - 'in the pudding club', and it turns out that this and 'up the duff' are essentially the same phrase. By 1890 Barrère & Leland, in their Dictionary of Slang, defined the term pudding club:

"A woman in the family way is said to be in the pudding club."

Note that in Victorian times a definition of a euphemistic term for pregnancy relied on another euphemism.

Dough is another word for pudding and duff is an alternative form and pronunciation of dough. That was in use by 1840, as here from R. H. Dana in Before the Mast:

"To enhance the value of the Sabbath to the crew, they are allowed on that day a pudding, or, as it is called, a ‘duff’."

So, we travel this route - (up the) duff -> dough -> pudding -> penis -> pregnant.

The more recent 'bun in the oven', another slang phrase for pregnant, may originate this way too.

misdee · 04/05/2006 14:42

are you my sister?

SparklyGothKat · 04/05/2006 14:44

noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! ITS NOT ME!!!!

OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:44

LOLOLOL zippi. rather long winded I think.

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Blackduck · 04/05/2006 14:46

How about 'Guess who's pregnant?' and see how long it takes him to cotton on...

bundle · 04/05/2006 14:47

are you me?

OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:49

BlackDuck, if you knew my Dh you'd know that that would be pointless...he's be there until next easter, by which time the baby will be born

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OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:51

no...I'm not you bundle because I'd never mention twins or triplets on a thread like this.

You wicked woman

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bundle · 04/05/2006 14:51

but do I know you OMG?

bundle · 04/05/2006 14:53

maybe that could be your line to dh: It could be worse, it could've been twins...

OhhhMyGOD · 04/05/2006 14:53

Dunno...do you?

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throckenholt · 04/05/2006 14:53

keep quiet about multiples - you may be slinking back in sheepishly in a few weeks announcing it IS twins ......

Blackduck · 04/05/2006 14:55

'Who's the last person you would expect to be pregnant'??

PinkKerPlink · 04/05/2006 14:57

please can you tell him? i have a bet on with someone and need the money to go out tonight

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