anyone kept their pregnancy a secret from their OH?

[mummy2ashton]

i am currently writing a fictional novel with the theme as mentioned in the title. would really appreciate hearing from people who this applies to, even if you only kept it a secret for a short time. why did you keep it a secret? were you scared of the reaction? how long were you together? what was the reaction when you eventually told your OH? thanks v much

me
i didnt tell dh fo three days
it was great

oh hold on more to answer
no reason why i kept it a secret
thrird kid
happily married
found out on holiday
did t tel him purely for the frisson of knowing i was the only one who knew and i was delighted
aslo wanted to anounce it not show him a urine stained stick

Plus, obviously, better to tell him with a finger up his bum?

do you not have your urine stained stick framed around a shrine then?

I have no experience of this but wondered if anyone can tell me what OH stands for

old husband? odd husband? original husband?

god no
i binned em

no finegr action here thankyouverymuch

other half
it fro those hwo live in sin
i prefer HUSBAND

"other half"

parp at the very term

haridressers talk abotu other halves dont hey

mind you it probaly IS their other half

PMSL @ cod

I was going to ask what an oh was..assumed old hand or old hubby

Prefer other half to "significant other" - always makes me wonder if he's the significant one, am I insignificant??

over-sensitive hypocondriac

dp calls me his girlfriend which sounds rather coquettish and silly to me

oh god yes - I like the hypocondriac one

lol. i would have said dh, but not everyone is married! my "other half" thought dh meant dick head. pmsl

its going good so far. i am not that far into it, im writing and studying for it too, if you know what i mean. doing research and reading text books about writing. hopefully within one or two months i will be ready to approach agents with it, i want to get it published but we'll see how it goes!

was my story utterly fascinating??
(its me ocd)

i think other half is better than 'partner' always makes think of Lesbian life partner!

I do however hate being called the missus

I haven't done this but I do know of some people who have.
Imagine this :
Woman comes to A+E with tummy pain
yep your in labour says doc.
Baby born and sadly very poorly .
Doc goes to explain baby's condition to mum and "dad"
Dad in tears, doc says I'm sure lo will be fine.
Dad says but I've only been with her 6 months!

Plus other similar examples. Working for the nhs really opens your eyes.

I was always too bleeding ill to keep it a secret

i didn't tell my DH for about 3 weeks! Don't really know why we had planned it etc, think I was still a bit shocked that it happened. He was very happy and supportive and after our DS was born I told him I'd kept it from him and he wasn't at all upset and said he understood I needed to get my head around first!

I told DH minutes after finding out with DD1. We fell pregnant first month trying and I went to Tesco at about 5am to get a kit - sneaked out - and then woke him up by jumping on te bed. I expected him to roll over delighted and excited, wodnerful weekend of marital happiness blah blah. He woke up shocked, tired and rather irritable!! I was gutted.
DD2 I waited as long as I could, but it was killing me as the test was a faint line. I had planned to do it with a romantic meal second time round and ended up instead, being grumpy as hell trying to keep it a secret until retest following day. We spent that eve (when DH was fuming at me for being moody and I finally admitted it) squinting at an old dried wee stick arguing over the colour. Great. Sure enough, retested following morning with DH pacing around and was pregnant. Again, not the romantic vision I had.
Next time I will keep it to myself and organise a special event to announce my happy news, calmly and serenely. That if it ever happens as we need a bigger house first

I didn't tell dh for a day with ds1. We hadn't planned for a baby ( although obviously hadn't planned very well for not having one) and at that moment I just couldn't face the how-are-we-going-to-afford-this discussion. But he guessed by my behaviour the next day and gave me a big hug!