How did you tell OH about pregnancy?

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Im actively ttc and love reading stories of how people told their significant others about their exciting news!
Please share whether it's partners or telling friends or family.

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Found out when DH was at work and I would be at work before he would get home but wanted to tell him asap but in a nicer way than a text. So I left him a note saying he better get his sleep whilst he can and the soft toy we bought for future DC (we had been TTC for a year) along with the pregnancy test! He was absolutely shocked and happy when he found it! Said it was a magical way for him to discover it!

Good luck with your TTC journey

I gave my DH a beer after work in his new class... he loved it!

Glass... urgh. Why can we not edit posts!

Honestly? I wondered into the kitchen bleary eyed at 5am (our wake up time) with the positive test and stuck it under his nose. We were both half asleep. He asked me to POAS again that evening as he wasn't awake enough to register it in the morning. To say it was a surprise to us both is an understatement.

I was sitting on the bed when he came home, and I just handed him the positive test. Surprise for the both of us so it was awkward to say the least.

I tested while DH was at work (I genuinely thought it would be negative!). I ended up having two positive tests that evening.
When he came home (he was working late so it was close to 11pm) he sat down and I went upstairs to get the tests. I stood at the top of the stairs working up the courage to tell him, and didn't hear him come up and he just saw them in my hand.

To say we both had that "holy shit" moment is an understatement. But it was something we had spoken about a lot and both wanted. I'm now 22 weeks and we're both so happy/excited.

With my first BFP, I didn't tell my OH I was testing early. I had bought a little knitted pair of booties in a box that said "You're going to be a daddy" wrapped it in a used Amazon box and told him he had a delivery.

It was a lovely moment and I also bought him a toy sloth from Asda as it was around Fathers Day.

Sadly we had an early miscarriage, so when we started TTC again I kept him in the loop. One morning about 3 days before my period was due we were getting ready for work - I felt really weird, so told him I was going to take a test. Because it was early again, he said I was being silly testing early. The line came up straight away and I sat at the kitchen table with it, so when he came down I waved the positive test in front of him saying "who's silly now" 😂

So we both went off to work in a little bubble of happiness! I'm 16 weeks now

I panicked, cried hysterically and phoned DH sobbing “What have we done? I’m not cut out to be a parent!”

Honestly?

We were driving along the road and I had to get him to pull into a bus stop so I could be sick out of the window. Then I turned round and said 'so, turns out I'm pregnant' 

In my defence he'd been at work all day with his phone off so I'd had no chance to tell him before the rogue vomit!

Well with or surprise no 4 I sent an email with ‘we have a little problem’ in the subject title. That was it... he came home shaking his head saying no, no, no 😂 anyway that little one is now 4..

He was still in bed and I went into the bathroom to test and he heard me sobbing through the door so he said "is that a yes then" haha.

We had been ttc for 9 months but I was so overwhelmed when it finally happened I couldn't stop crying saying we had made a mistake. Our ds is now 17 months old.

My OH came in from work, went to the fridge, and asked if I wanted a glass a wine. I said no thanks I'm not going to be drinking for the next 9 months. The look on his face was priceless.

One of the girls at work was complaining about her period cramps, and it hit me that I was already 9 days late (not TTC but not not TTC, IYSWIM). Stopped on my way home to pick up a test.

I went to pick DP up from an off-site work meeting and told him there was something on the passenger seat for him as we were walking back to the car. I had picked up a tiny pair of Timberlands (DP wears his almost exclusively, comfort apparently) and popped them on the seat for him to find. He burst into tears, honestly the greatest reaction I could have hoped for (he's not normally a crier!).

I was serving up my DH dinner and told him to sit down ready for it. But instead I bought a plate out with a pair of Babys winter mittens and hat on it and put it down in front of him.
Unfortunately though it ended in miscarriage so the next time I got a positive test I just went straight into the bedroom where he was and told him outright.

Realised I was late and had felt uncharacteristically faint at work so did a test and showed DH, but the result wasn't completely clear. The next morning I bought a clearblue digital one and when it said pregnant I sent a photo with the comment 'that seems pretty definite '

My dp was acrually the one who boufht the test and tild me to do it. I was 5 days late but as we had only been trying for 3 months I didn't want to take a test and be disappointed. I used a clear blue digital and the word pregnant came up in about 15 seconds. My dd is 14 weeks old now and it's almost a year since we found out

My OH told me I did the test and put it on the windowsill and I went to make a coffee. All I hear his him laughing his head off. We was planning a night of drinking so that was my plans out the window 😂

I was really dizzy at work (my vertigo normally kicks off when im ill or tired) and we were ttc but it was the first month so we weren't expecting anything to happen that quickly.

I was only a day late but I needed to know so I did a test at work and it was faint but definitely positive.

Although OH had agreed to ttc it was so quick I knew he'd be shocked so I picked up a packet of dark chocolate hobnobs on the way home (bit of comfort food). I told him and gave him the hobnobs and he just seemed completely out of it. He ate the whole bloody packet and didn't offer me one!

That pregnancy ended in mc but I was pregnant again 2 mths later. Same thing happened, I was dizzy at work, tested, bought pack of dark chocolate hobnobs and told him. This time he was ecstatic. The mc had confirmed that this was what we both definitely wanted as we were devastated.

Dark chocolate hobnobs are forever the food of life changing news.

First pregnancy I woke him up at about 5:30am by waving the glowing clearblue fertility monitor, which said "PREGNANT", in his face. He confusedly wished me a sleepy "congratulations" and went back to sleep. We still laugh about it now. Obviously when he woke up properly later that morning he was very excited.

Second time he knew I was taking a test because he brought it for me on his way home from work. It was our first month TTC so neither of us actually expected it to be positive. He was making dinner and I walked into the kitchen and gave him the test without saying anything. His face was a picture (he'd picked up tests reluctantly as didn't think I was pregnant and I could tell he thought me testing was just me being a fussbag and he didn't want me to get my hopes up). To be fair I was totally shocked too, but it was a happy surprise. I think DH was just a bit disappointed that he wasn't going to get six months of loads of sex like when we were TTC No. 1.

I texted him cos I'd done a cheapie and it had a v faint line, so I texted him in a tizz asking him to stop on way home from work (our second car was in garage and we live in a village) to pick up a First Response. Then I found a spare digital I had forgotten about that came up with Pregnant so I texted a pic of it to him and said 'don't bother about getting a test!'.

We aren't really big gesture kinds of people! 

We’d been trying for a while and recently had a “practically infertile” diagnosis due to my PCOS. We’d made the agreement to stop trying and give ourselves until next year once all the tests and investigations were out of the way. I’d been feeling a bit crap all week but put it down to a VLCD I’d just started (to shift some weight to improve the PCOS).

Went to see a friend for their birthday and was pressured into a sliver of chocolate birthday cake that made me feel disgustingly sick. Got home and thought “I don’t feel quite right” and did a test.

Shouted DH who stood at the bottom of the stairs looking like his life had just ended, he was trying to keep calm because I was at the top of the stairs sobbing and wafting a pissy dip test around.

It took a few weeks for it to sink in, I’m nearly 29 weeks now

I had grand plans to tell DP with a faked delivery for him, with a vest inside that says "I can't wait to meet you, Daddy".

As it turned out, I'd been getting negative tests and had read if you were over 6 weeks since your last period and actively TTC, you should see a doctor in case it's an ectopic pregnancy.

I said to him we'll try one more test, but an expensive one (I had been using cheapies) and it came back Pregnant - 1-2 weeks!

I just walked downstairs and knelt down in front of him with it and said it says 1-2 weeks. He said what does that mean? I said we're pregnant.

I don't think it quite sunk in straight away!