Tell me about the day you found out you were pregnant

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We've been trying for 10 months now for #1. Appreciate in grand scheme it's not long but 3/4 way down a wine bottle after AF turns up once again and feeling very blue.
Tell me about your BFP moments. I need some lovely positive stories from wonderful Mumsnet ladies

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners I'm so sorry for your loss. That's such a sweet story.

AndNoneForGretchenWeiners I'm so sorry for your loss what an awful chapter in your story. I hope you're staying strong

I was lucky, we had 20 happy years together before he died. It isn't easy, but it is what it is - he was really poorly and is at peace now.

all of these lovely stories though!

It took us 6 months aged 38 after an early miscarriage and ttc was making me more than a bit crazy. We were on a little holiday in the UK and it was testing time while we were away. The day I tested we had been on a ferry ride and it was really cold. When we walked on to the shore, I was doubled over with sharp tummy pains and I just thought 'this is it, I'm pregnant.'
Back at the hotel DH had gone for a swim and I whipped the test out of its packet and did it there and then, the day before AF was due, heart thumping. And it turned positive straight away, no mistake. I went to the mirror, leaned on the sink and looked at myself and kept whispering 'it's positive, it's positive'. As soon as DH walked in to the room I told him. I then spent weeks and weeks being anxious as anything, a bit of spotting here and there and some aches and pains, addicted to Google.
But it was all ok. Our little girl arrived at the end of 2019 and she's the most perfect thing ever and currently having a lovely, sleepy feed.
Come back on and tell us your story when it happens Op. In the meantime, baby dust coming your way

Thank you GlowingTwig, what a lovely story and I would love to share mine with you all when I'm able to.

We tried for 48 cycles (4 years), and had every smug bugger around us sneezing and getting pregnant with us getting more despondent. Test after test kept saying there was nothing wrong (afterwards discovered I have severely underactive thyroid and didn't ovulate properly).

During that time I nursed my lovely mum through end-stage cancer and I wanted so badly to tell her I was pregnant but it never happened. My FIL also died during that time, which meant by then we had lost all 4 parents so no wonder it didn't happen really.

We tried everything- all the "helpful" suggestions from friends now into their second - or even third- pregnancies. " have you tried relaxing? My third cousin once removed did this and it helped." Relaxing, you say? Why didn't I think of that?!?

In the end a wonderful lady on the infertility boards here posted me her spare clomid- and I thought this would solve it. So I took the 3 months worth she sent and... nothing. Bought 3 more months worth from a very dodgy website, still nothing.

So we gave up. Not "relaxed", not "had a holiday". Literally crying, snotty, angry mess gave up. Went to a gig in London, spent the whole weekend taking drugs, getting pissed, generally raging against the world. Furious and defeated.

A few days later my very romantic DH said "give us a go on those!" and tried to touch my boobs- they were insanely sore as they always are before AF arrives. Thought no more if it, and headed out for the day. Can't put my finger on why I had the urge to do a test, especially why I decided to do it in the toilet of the supermarket I'd bought it in but I did a clear blue digital and when that little flashing PREGNANT came up I sat in there for a good 10 minutes. I thought it was a mistake so i went straight back out there and bought a litre of orange juice to make me wee and another test.

When that one said PREGNANT as well I drove home in shock, startled DH who wasn't expecting me home for hours, thrust them both into his hands and watched as this big man dissolved into tears. The next few hours are a blur, although I had to Google whether I was allowed a cup of tea (!) and we sat and cried and hugged.

We were booked to go to Berlin on a bender a few days after I found out, so although we went, I stuck to alcohol free lager ( the novelty helped it taste a lot better!). It was a magical time, wandering around this crazy city with our very own little secret!

My beautiful DS is 2 now and snoring next to me as I write... and yesterday I got a BFP with our second little bean after the very first month of trying ( after I had little one they diagnosed me with thyroid problems and sorted out my medication, meaning I now ovulate!)

It seems as though you'll never get there and it's such a lonely place BUT keep going OP- it's the only way it'll happen! Good luck!

We decided to start 'trying for a baby', DH very pleased as he thought it would mean lots of sex, we had sex that day then he went on a 3 week work trip. By the time he got back I was a vomiting pregnant wreck who continued to vomit (and not have sex) for the next 37 weeks.

He hid his disappointment well!

I was diagnosed with PCOS and endometriosis - my doctor thought there was basically no chance of me getting pregnant without help, and referred me straight to the reproductive endocrinologist. I had a ton of tests, and the endo asked me to take 3 months off the pill so they could get a good read on my hormone levels. It didn't look promising though.

After about 2 months, I went out for a few drinks with friends and the next morning felt like death and threw up in the sink. After another day or so of feeling horrible I thought I had the flu, but decided to do a pregnancy test juuuuust in case. Bold blue line immediately. I called the doc, went in the next day for a scan and I was 7+4 .

Carried on throwing up and feeling like death for the entire pregnancy .

I started feeling sick and ran to the toilet at work to be sick, my friend who was my senior manager said "imagine if your pregnant" and I said I'd come off my pill but doubted it was that, 20 minutes later she appeared with a pregnancy test I did the test to prove I wasn't, we went and sat in one of the meeting rooms to have a cup of tea, I picked up the test and it was positive! We couldn't believe it we were both in tears! My husband had been on a night shift and she sent me home to tell him, don't think he's ever been as shocked as that moment I woke him up waving the test!
Good luck OP I hope you're on this thread in the near future telling us your story.

I woke from an odd dream which, unsurprisingly as I was thinking and hoping a lot for a positive test, included getting a positive pregnancy test (the cheap strip type) but when I tried to show it to people, I found it had been scribbled on with a pink pen the same colour as the positive and control lines so it wasn't clear any longer. I felt quite certain that I was pregnant but also a sense of not wanting to get the positive test after the strange dream. I did the test and went back to bed to wait for it. It was positive. DH came upstairs and was about to go in the shower, so I called gin into the bedroom and told him the test was positive and showed it to him. He said it was nice and wandered off. A few minutes later he came back and asked if that meant I was pregnant and when I did it did, he was more excited. We were both very happy on the way into work. My day was busy so not much time to think about it and in the evening we ate out (no alcohol!) and went to see a comedy show and I remember being so tired that I couldn't laugh.

Sadly that pregnancy didn't last although I have two children now from later pregnancies but it was the first one and was such an exciting time for us.

Wishing you luck.

DP went to work on a Sunday night shift and that night I had a really vivid dream that my friend told me she was pregnant and that I definitely was too and in the dream she threw me a test to pee on.

I woke up and immediately did a test and it was VERY positive. I'm now sat here feeding my chunky 14 week DS.

I had missed two periods and has been sent to a consultant at the hospital for investigation. I wasn’t pregnant obviously.

They decided to put me on fertility drugs, to bring them back, but also as I was ttc. The day I had a gp appt to pick them up. I was hoovering and suddenly thought “I’m pregnant”

So I popped out and got a couple of tests, did them and they were positive. I then fronted up for my gp appt with the positive tests.

She burst out laughing and said “ your pregnant?!?”. I was like, yeah, I just knew, she called the consultant there and then and told him, they knew each other well, and they put me under consultant led pregnancy as they were worried about the dating.

I don’t know how I knew, I just knew. I also knew I was having a girl, and stated it throughout my pregnancy, “it’s definitely a girl” and when she was born, I said to my husband,”I told you”

Weird how the body works,

We’d been trying for just over a year and I was getting very despondent. The month we conceived I just couldn’t cope with properly trying anymore and we only had sex once after a drunken night out. We had an appointment at a fertility clinic booked for the following month and I just felt I needed to take the pressure off for a while. I was trying really hard not to do pregnancy tests but my cycles varied in length and the 5/6 day wait for my period and the hope used to kill me so I decided to do a test just to prove to myself that I wasn’t pregnant and to shut my brain up. Did the test and it was positive. Shoved it under my husband’s nose then literally didn’t know what to do with myself. I cleaned the whole house as I couldn’t stay still while my husband desperately tried to find a shop that was open on Jan 1st to buy more tests.

This time we fell on round one. No way in hell did I think I would be pregnant but my husband was nagging me to test just in case. I did one just to shut him up. Couldn’t believe it. Husband sent out again to buy a shit load more tests.

We went to Florida to get married in Disney, on my wedding day I wore a pad because I was due on the day after but had been getting cramping all week. If I was at home I would have been testing already, but because I was away on holiday it was at the back of my mind.

The day after I put a pad on, didnt mention anything to anyone and we went to the parks. We went to go for dinner at rainforest cafe and were sat waiting with a drink for a table and the smell inside was making me heave. I had to leave right that second. My friend came out to me andaas like girl are you pregnant it doesnt smell that bad at all? Then reality hit 🙊 we both went to the shop secretly that night to get some tests, i know it should be FMU but i was up at 2:30am to get ready for my wedding photoshoot infront of the castle.
I took the test secretly in the toilet and there was the 2 strongest lines!! I ran out to hubby sobbing with the test in my hands. He cried. I cried. Then we went to get a clear blue cus he needed to see the words. They came up for sure! We had 2 hours sleep and took the tests to our photoshoot with us and had a picture with it infront of the castle 🙊

I'd been at chestier zoo all day trying to distract myself from my daughter being stillborn 2.5 months before. We had gone through 2 years of fertility treatment to get her. Anyway I just felt really sick that evening which I never do. Decided to do a test on a whim, knowing that I couldn't get pregnant naturally. Instant strong line. Turns out I was 8 weeks pregnant!

I thought I was 8dpo and I'd planned to hold off on testing but I really wanted to pee on something when I got home from work! I peed on an OPK because I'd read you could use them as pregnancy tests and it was a blazing positive which got my hopes up so I peed on an internet cheapie, nothing, then a digital which said 1-2weeks. I showed DH the digital and cried when he got home as it was the fourth time I was telling him I was pregnant in the nine months we'd been trying. Luckily this one was the one and I've now got my 2 month old daughter in my lap 🥰

Second round of IVf -finding out you are pregnant after trying so long and previous chemical pregnancy certainly takes away the excitement-it was all very tempered and let’s just wait and see how this goes. However -good news -24 weeks tomorrow. Best of luck-ttc is hard. Hang on in there. I never thought I would be here.

I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 22 and told I was unlikely to be able to conceive without assistance. I had six surgeries over the next 11 years and had been on hormone treat keys constants for 20 years by the time I was 33. After my last surgery I decided to stop the pill and TTC so that after 12 months we would qualify for a round of IVF.

Started trying in January and by early Feb I was sure I was pregnant but DH thought I was nuts. Had an old test in the bathroom from a time I’d been really late once but the test didn’t work.

Bought more and tested on Valentine’s Day when my period was due. It was one of the cross ones and I got a dark blue vertical line and a grey horizontal line with no dye in it.

DH and I were studying the instructions and googling for an embarrassingly long time - a faint blue line is a positive but what does a grey line mean?! - before we realised that the vertical line is the positive line, the horizontal line is always there.

We were both shocked and didn’t believe it until I bought a digital test.

Found out a couple of months later I was having twins, apparently if your hcg level is high it can draw the dye away from the other line.

I hope you get your own story soon

Friday 13th of Feb 2017 😳 we had been trying for a few months and I'd stopped taking tests before Xmas as it was becoming an obsession. I was cleaning the bathroom before going to work and a test fell out of the cupboard when I opened it. So I figured why not. Was floating all day at work. Then told dp when he got home and then the shock set in. Took me a week to get used to it!

First time Was around cycle 19 I was in the cafe and the smell of grease was making me feel so sick I made my dp drive home as I said I needed to toilet - There was the faintest line so I phoned him to come inside now 😂he didn’t really understand why I was jumping for joy over the “faint line” second time I waited to do a digital then got my dd to pass it to him . His turn to jump for joy lol . Sadly neither of these ended well but I’ll never forget the rush of excitement . This time I only tested as I was waiting for my cycle so I could start my clomid. I FaceTimed him and showed him he said what I said it says pregnant . We were silent for about 5 mins before he said okay let’s see what happens. We didn’t breath a word about it till our scan at 7 weeks! Happy to say I’m 24 weeks and all looks good 🥰.
I hope you get your story soon xx

I found out last night on cycle 3 of trying, I'd done a test on Tuesday as I'd had bad nausea on Sunday and kept feeling ill and tired and it was a definite negative so I was so sure it wasn't the month.

We were going round to friends last night and AF hadn't turned up so I thought quickly do a test before we go out and the line came up within a couple of minutes, still in shock and going to do my 4th test later as I still can't believe it.

Friday 13th of Feb 2017
@Raffles1981
I’m spectacularly missing the point of the thread, but the 13 Feb was a Monday in 2017 not a Friday.

@Flyinglemur - Jan not Feb 🙈 my mistake.

What a beautiful idea for a thread!

I hope you get your positive soon!

We found out on Xmas eve, eve, I had a feeling I was but have been in that situation lots of times before and always ended up disappointed.

We went to town and got some tests, took our time and walked around like it was no big deal and I was fully expecting it to be negative. We had been trying for a few years which had been an emotional roller coaster.
We had actually decided to stop trying in Nov as it was taking such a toll on our relationship, and at the end of the day we loved eachother the most.
Test was positive, we didnt smile, or cry, we just stood there mouths wide open in disbelief, then came the smiles and the tears, and more disbelief.