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How did you tell your partner?

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BeautyBoo · 27/01/2015 17:07

So AF is currently 9 days late. I'm holding off from POAS just yet! But of course my mind is in overdrive and I can't stop thinking about 'telling people' if I do get a positive test!! I really want to think of a romantic way to tell my partner.

How did you tell yours?

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gincamelbak · 27/01/2015 20:24

Both times:

CAN YOU SEE THAT LINE, THE LINE, IS THERE A SECOND LINE? CAN YOU SEE IT OMG CAN YOU?

MrsEvansAlmost · 27/01/2015 20:25

t him a pic of the faint positive line titled 'shit' big big shock he's said 5 words to me since! that was yesterday! poor bugger

LittleGreyCatwithapinkcollar · 27/01/2015 22:14

I'm a thrower. Tested early in the morning on the day we were going on holiday. Throw the test at him while he was asleep with a oi nd left him to figure it out. He was over the moon. Did two more tests that morning. Threw them at him too!!

TheScenicRoute · 27/01/2015 22:31

I weed on a stick very early on, it was a real squinter of a positive result. I waited for my OH to come home from work, I'd written a Thankyou card to the IVF clinic and told OH I needed to send it now (early) because I wouldn't have the grace to do so when I'd received a negative test. Then I passed over the 'pen' for my OH to sign it with, which was actually the positive test upside down (granted it was a bit of an odd looking pen). My OH took a minute to sink in, then wasn't at all convinced it was a second line because it was so faint.... But doesn't remember any of that doubt at all now, when my OH recites the story it's very romantic and it was a definite positive! Lol

LinzAJ · 27/01/2015 22:34

I went off to do the test he stayed in the kitchen. I went down and he said well? I said we are pregnant he turned back to what he was doing and didn't talk to me for a few minutes. We had been trying but it was obviously a shock for him!

Told my Mum about 15 mins later and was asked if that meant I didn't want to go on our pre planned riding holiday! Amazing responses from my loved ones!!!

Ohfourfoxache · 27/01/2015 22:43

DH and I had the day off work (we were going off for a long weekend). Couldn't sleep, so up pottering at about 5am leaving DH in bed with the 2 cats sprawled out next to him.

POAS and took it upstairs with 2 cups of tea. Woke him up by sitting down and telling him he had 3 babies on the bed (yes, the cats are our babies ) - and his wife. Took several minutes for it to sink in!

We then spent the whole weekend with my parents, pretending my lemonade had vodka in it and him checking up with me regularly making sure I was ok

TelephoneIgnoringMachine · 27/01/2015 22:49

I got up to POAS, positive. Got back into bed to wait for DH to wake up, when he did I said "Good morning, daddy." We'd been trying for ages & he was thrilled!

purplebiro · 27/01/2015 23:19

Did a test to rule out the possibility that I was pos before going to the doctor after feeling shite for a few weeks. DP bought a test for me on the way home - I texted best mate to say I was testing but didn't think I was, just ruling it out etc etc and went upstairs to test (it was positive, after 6 months of trying but not late and my periods are irregular anyway). Came downstairs and DP anxiously asked "well...?". Without thinking I said "hang on, I've just got to text best mate". He's forgiven me. Just.

Gudgyx · 28/01/2015 11:18

I only did a test to rule out pregnancy as I had been feeling crap, like purplebiro. POAS, left it sitting on window sill in bathroom while I run a bath. It turned to the positive sign right away. He knew I was doing it, but dont think he expected me to shout 'FCKING HELL!! SHT!! COME AND SEE THIS!!' then he just laughed!

I went out to tesco and bought another 4 digital ones. All came up 3+ weeks pregnant. He laughed again. Then shock kicked in and he was hyper, we went right out to tell our parents. But told them to keep it quiet as we thought it was very early days.

Had a reassurance scan the week after to determine dates (periods hadnt come back properly after depo so I didnt really have LMP) we were over 12 weeks :)

34+4 now, this pregnancy has flown in!

invisiblecrown · 28/01/2015 11:20

He watched me piss on the stick. On all 4 occasions.

We've never been a couple to make romantic events out of times like these.

LemonYellowSun · 28/01/2015 11:38

Both times we looked at the test together.

Bragadocia · 28/01/2015 11:45

He picked up a test after work, I did the wee, and looked at the result together. Nothing romantic! We were both quite cautious about getting too excited and concerned the pregnancy would end in miscarriage, so it was more a case of 'promising start, now let's keep fingers crossed for the next few months'.

Stinkylinky · 28/01/2015 11:46

I rang my DP when he was at work to tell him, I really wish I had waited until he got home to tell him to see his face because he sounded so happy but I found it impossible to keep it to myself any longer!

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Squidge14 · 28/01/2015 11:59

I had a spare test in my bag from a pack of two (the first one the week before being negative) woke up on a Monday morning and thought I'll just do it before work to use it up not really thinking anything of it, saw a faint second line and was went and woke him up saying 'can you see a second line?' he said yeah looks like one and I told him that means we are, he told me to go and buy the best test you can get (bless him!) and do it at work and double check. He then bombarded me with excited messages and calls all morning about how amazing it would be etc.

I got a CB digi test at lunch did it in my work loos, started packing my bag away with it on the side, expecting a negative and turned to 'Pregnant 1-2 weeks' called him straight away and he didn't answer for ages when I did tell him he was over the moon and blurted it straight out to his friend he was with before we had even told our parents!

Annoyingly I'd been feeling rough for a few weeks and tested just before his birthday as I was late too, the test was negative because it was too early to tell, I would have loved to have got him a happy birthday daddy card and popped a pic of the positive test inside!

browneyedgirly · 28/01/2015 12:16

We were going to a wedding the next day so I thought as we had been sort-of-trying for a couple of months and my period was late that I'd do a test when I got home from work (to see whether I could enjoy all the champagne the next day). POAS, went and did something else, went back to check, saw the line. Went down to find DP who was having a beer in the garden and I said: fuck... fuck... fucking hell... (repeated a lot...). I was pleased, just apparently only capable of saying one thing. I showed him the test and the two lines and he said: I don't know what this means (having never seen a pg test before, bless).

So not exactly the romantic announcement I'd always planned, but it was all I could muster at the time! At least I didn't throw it at him Just the expletives from me!!

supersalmon1 · 28/01/2015 12:24

My partner works in London and I had also gone up that day for a course.
My course finished way before he was due to finish work and I had a couple of hours to kill. My period was about a week late and I thought I would buy a test to rule it out. Anyway, did the test in the toilets in Starbucks on Tottenham Court Road...came back positive in a matter of seconds. I then spent the next hour bricking it and wondering what he would say. I ended up blurting it out in a wine bar when he asked what I wanted to drink. In typical (mischievous) DP style, his first words were, 'Congratulations sweetheart, whose is it?'. He was thrilled and hasn't stopped smiling since - this was back in November.

luckiestgirlintheworld · 28/01/2015 14:20

We did it together. I assumed everyone did that.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 28/01/2015 14:39

First one, did it in secret, freaked out as soon as the positive came up. Didn't tell him straight away as it was unplanned and thought he would be cross. Sister made me tell him in the end (one day later) and he was chuffed. I've never seen him as heartbroken as he was when I miscarried a few weeks later .

This time, once again tested without telling him, the line was stupidly faint. I left it a couple of days, before cracking and telling him I thought I was pregnant. As I had work the next day, I couldn't wait for him to join me in the 'magical' moment of poas, but rang him straight away with the news. Bless him, he's trying not to get over excited this time but he can't seem to help it .

sianihedgehog · 28/01/2015 15:19

First time, we were out at the pub with friends, and I went home for a bit to grab a jumper, and did a test while there so that I didn't end up staying out getting smashed if it was positive, which it was. I went back to the pub and tried desperately to get a moment to speak to my other half, and eventually managed to grab him when our mates walked ahead and blurt it out. Not romantic, and he was pissed drunk and kept almost telling people all afternoon. Do not recommend. We lost that pregnancy, so the second time was kind of fraught. This time I went running in with a pee stick first thing in the morning, which was better. But I was shitting myself with fear, so still not romantic!!

ClearlyOpaque · 28/01/2015 15:22

The alarm went off very early as we were heading to the airport for a holiday in Texas. As is his way, OH rolled over and asked if I wanted a cuppa. I replied "Yes please, but you'd better make mine a decaf". He sleepily asked why and when I said "Because I'm pregnant", I've never seen someone wake up so quickly - he was beside himself with joy.

I kinda wish I'd waited and done the test with him, but I didn't want to get his hopes up as we'd only be trying a few weeks, so decided to test on my own the day before.

LovesBooks · 28/01/2015 15:31

I sent him a text because I could not wait for him to get in from work

sebsmummy1 · 28/01/2015 15:44

Love these stories

First time it was a very unexpected pregnancy and I peed in a public toilet, got a faint positive and told my Mum straight away. Then I stood in the middle of town and rang him as we were meeting that evening. He was sitting at home watching TV and the conversation went;

Hello
Hello
You ok?
Yep, I'm pregnant
What?
I'm pregnant
How? Oh my god, oh my god etc

He arrived at my house carrying flowers and had calmed down by then lol

After that we've had all sort of problems conceiving no.2 but this pregnancy I decided to test on 8dpo which is really early. Didn't expect for one minute it would be positive and a faint line appeared! I then rang him whist he was driving to his Mums (hands free) and basically screamed like a lunatic. As I was squealing the line was becoming more pronounced and id suddenly go into another flurry of screaming. He was laughing so much

sarkymare · 28/01/2015 15:58

#1 we both looked at the test at the same time and did a simultaneous 'oh shit'

#2 I was in A&E as I had been violently sick for over a week. I was just inserting a suppository behind the curtain when the nurse asked 'so where are you having your baby' I clenched right up. Neither of us even suspected I was pregnancy as I had miscarried #1 a little over a month before.

#3 me: oh shit babe. Babe! Can you see this???

fattymcfatfat I absolutely love your name. My partner Called me this when I was pregnant. I have no idea where he got it from. Is it from a film or something?

Brambles34 · 28/01/2015 16:04

First pregnancy I put the positive test strip in his valentines card..... He cried.

2nd pregnancy I sent text him a photo of the positive test :-)

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