TTC advice/ideas on how to surprise DH with pregnancy news?

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Not pregnant yet, but TTC conceive and I've always wanted to surprise my DH in a creative way when announcing to him that I'm pregnant....

Any advice or ideas on how I could do this?

Er, what for? He's your husband, why would you keep it secret for long enough for an elaborate setup? Telling your life partner you are expecting a baby together is exciting and important enough without props and gimmicks. Just tell him.

Just tell him? Won't that be exciting enough without a whole production?

Are you sure he'd like that? We were deliberately trying for dc1 but when I told DH he went completely blank for weeks and refused to discuss it (would like to point out he was in shock that it happened so fast, he wasn't being an arse). If I'd put more effort into telling him I would have been crushed!

I think cute announcements like that ate more appropriate for grandparents. My husband and I were in it together- I came running in after taking a test saying 'omg is that a line?!' I don't know how he'd have felt me keeping it secret from him even for 5 minutes... and it would have felt really weird to hide something like this from him - after all it's half his! Each to his own and I know everyone's relationships are different but I don't see why anyone wouldn't want their partner to share the actual moment! Unless he's abroad or something like that?

If you’re confident you will conceive I personally think it’s a lovely idea. I wrote my partner a poem (when I wasn’t pregnant). Did a test when I missed my period and bam pregnant, there’s no way I would have text him to tell him that! He came home and I gave him the poem to read and recorded his reaction.

I told my partner straight away when I got my BFP, I would have felt dishonest keeping it a secret from him even for a short time. He was thrilled to bits and I don’t think doing some sort of surprise “reveal” would have made it any better or memorable for either of us. I also didn’t want to make too big a deal of it in case the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage and we had to start all over again. I think it’s better to save the surprises/creativity for when you’re further along and telling family.

My DH just went back to bed!

@peachesarenom 😂 mine too

Flyingchimps Men!

I found out 3 days before missed period, and also had to wait around 3 hours till he got out of bed. I think you have to be very simple and clear with them... I showed him the stick and said 'a pregnant woman has been in our bathroom ', which was not as cute or easy to understand as I thought it would be!
Gave him strict instructions to tell no-one just in case (due to our history) and within 2 hours, he told his mam, brother and best friend! Bless him

I bought my husband a little vest that said ‘My daddy is number one’ and gave him it as a gift when he came in from work...he was incredibly confused at first and thought I’d got it for our dog 🤦🏽‍♀️ Then he realised and cried with happiness :-) I don’t think there is anything wrong with doing something nice because it’s all down to personal choice :-) my husband actually told me to surprise him because he put so much effort into my engagement proposal 😂😂