How did you announce a positive results to your partner?

[Mrbay]

Hi all

After 2-years of trying and a few cycles of IVF, I've had my very first positive test - yay, it's been over 24-hrs and I still don't believe it!

Given the process has been very medical and not how I thought trying for a baby would be, I'd like to put a bit of surprise back in when I tell DH.

Please can you help me with some ideas.

Thanks!

Huge congratulations!! We didn't have the same journey as you, so my announcement was a bit underwhelming - I POAS and then came out holding it shortly after my husband came back from work. My husband seemed less animated by my stick test than about the fact he had almost hit Boris Johnson crossing the road on his bike on his commute home!!

I rang Dh at work. At that time he was still dp, in fact we'd only been together 8 weeks he knew that my first husband hadn't wanted children and it had been torture for me. I said I had something to tell him, that I was pregnant and whatever happened between us I would always be so grateful to him for this gift. We both started blubbing on the phone. I was interviewing at work that day and managed to concentrate but between each interview I could only see an image in my mind of the stick with the line.

Omg I've just realised both times were the same with do, I got a test and sent a picture of him at work, second is planned (currently 14w) bug we'd been trying for ages, so didnt think it would be that cycle yet again,

Aww congrats!
I recently found out too.. a bit cheesy but I scattered faux pink and blue rose petals on the bed and put the positive test in the middle... on the bedside table a dummy in a box (I was trying to recreate his proposal a bit) and then a card which said ‘will you be my baby daddy?’ on the envelope. I called him up from the living room asking him to come quickly to help me. I was so nervous! But he looked so surprised and happy 😊 - i’d planned to do something like this for a while so had been gathering the stuff together before my BFP

No advice here I'm afraid, do was asleep and i threw the positive stick at his head by rushing in and throwing my around in excitement hahaha.

Congrats op!!!! I bet he will love which ever way you tell him

DS1 - panic attack on the floor whilst clutching the pregnancy test (only been together a few months, although at least living together I suppose)
MC - Jumped on him with the biggest grin
DD1 (MMC) - Letterboard saying "Get your sleep whilst you can, we are having a newborn in July!" and soft toy waiting for him on the bed. He works nights so he saw that just before he went to bed (I was at work by this time so got a lovely text back from him in shock!)
DS2 (Died @ 5 days old) - He waited in the loo with me to see those pink lines show up
This pregnancy - again, he waited in the loo with me.

Let us know how you tell him! I saw some lovely pregnancy announcement stuff on Notonthehighstreet if you can wait until it is delivered!

I'm welling up over all these stories! Congrats on your lovely children all :)

We've told 2 out 3 parents this weekend, I think they are all a little shell shocked that they may have a grandchild next year, IVF robs you of getting too excited as there is a higher risk of failure, but i'm not dwelling on that, I am super pleased that I have finally got this far so if it doesn't stick, I know it can and will again in the future.

I got up early for work and took a test. Camps up BFP, I jumped into bed with him again and said look at that. He was half asleep and a little confused but once he came to he was really excited.
Huge congrats and I hope everything goes well for you.

hahaha OP I completely missed your 2nd post on this thread! What a lovely way to have told him - it does get too exciting sometimes I imagine!

Sorry to hijack your post OP, but just wanted to say hi to @TwittleBee - congrats on your pregnancy! I hope you are keeping ok x

Oh hi @Bentley111 ! Actually off to have a scan as things aren't looking good this time either. Hope you're keeping well? Xx

DS1 I bought him a booked called 'Fatherhood: The truth' which I presented him with as soon as he woke up. He looked at it sleepily, furrowed his brow and said 'you pregnant?'. When I said yes, he grinned and said 'cool'
DS2 I had an inkling but we'd said that I would test at the weekend as my cycles are all over the place. On the Tuesday I said to him that I was going to test as I had one left over in the bathroom. He maintained that it was too early and I'd be wasting a test. I did it anyway. Positive. Wandered downstairs dangling it and singing 'told yooooou'.

We're not ones for huge gestures and announcements.

Oh no @TwittleBee I'm sorry, keeping everything crossed for you today, you can't possibly have any more bad luck. All good this end thank you x

Me and my partner sit together while I take the test so I don't get the fun announcement bit.. sadly we haven't had a positive yet but he will find out at the same time when we do!

DP was working one Saturday and for some reason I just felt different, I took an IC and text DP saying 'I think I'm pregnant', we'd tried for so long so he told me not to get too excited as the line was so faint. We took an FRER the following day and I'm now due in 5 weeks!

@Bentley111 bad news, another MMC for us x

ds1 - i called him sobbing from a sainsbury’s toilet. (i actually had to miss call him and have him call me back because i had no credit 🙈). i was 15 and absolutely petrified! ds2 - i just walked into the bedroom and showed him the test. dd1 - we did the test together after putting it off for about a week. she was our first planned child and we were both really nervous!

@TwittleBee I'm so sorry.