Tell me about the day you found out you were pregnant

[ThoroughlyForumed]

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

We'd been actively trying for a few months but I was getting so down about it all. I had really irregular and long cycles, averaging about 60 days with no idea when I was ovulating, no luck with OPKs. I was obsessed with testing but got to a stage where I rationed myself and tested every Saturday morning. Day 42 of cycle, Saturday morning, POAS time but not expecting anything as usual! Faint line, showed DH who could also see it. We were going out for the day and called at Asda on way home for a FRER test to confirm which I did when I got home and that was that!
It was a shock even though we were trying. In the days leading up to my bfp, I'd been working away. I'd had a large and I mean large 3 course meal and 2 gins, then went to hotel bar and I had the overwhelming urge to throw up, went to toilets in hotel foyer where I proceeded to vomit up my lovely meal. I never thought anything of it at the time other than I'd eaten too much but that has never happened before 😂 and I went back to the bar to finish my drink, feeling fine!

I was on holiday with my husband and wasn't drinking because we were ttc. Said to him when we got on the plane to go home that I was gutted my period hadn't come because I had wanted to enjoy some cocktails on holiday, and he said 'I bet you're pregnant.' Planted the thought in my head and I held my pee the whole flight home. When we got back, I dropped my bags and ran into the bathroom. Ran out 20 seconds later crying with the positive test in my hands. Now cuddling my beautiful 6 week old baby girl! Hope you get your BFP soon and come back to share your own story.

Half an hour before we left for a chemical brothers concert I decided to test just in case so I knew if I could drink or not. We had been trying but I thought it was too early to test. Nope! Two lines which meant no wines. Could barely focus on the concert I was so worried about people banging into me etc. 28 weeks now

1st time - It was a couple weeks after a fertility appointment. We'd been trying for 2 years with no luck at that point. One day my boobs were incredibly tender, so I did a quick Google. Now realising it's an early sign of pregnancy, I took a test, and lo and behold it was positive! Sadly that pregnancy wasn't meant to be. But now I knew what symptoms I was looking for.

Second time - 11 months and one round of Clomid later. I'd had a scan a couple weeks before that had shown I had two mature follicles ready to go. The chance of twins hadn't stopped us, so I knew there was a possibility. Three days before my period was due I got sore boobs again, and I just knew before I even took the test. DH was home, so I called him to the bathroom to show him. He was slightly gormless, and didn't know what a positive test looked like even when one was literally being waved in his face! Still didn't know what it meant when I told him there's two lines! (I can see that... but what does it mean? ) Once I told him (slowly and clearly ) he was shocked and delighted. We never thought the Clomid would work first time. That second line is now 8 months old and in a year or so we'll start trying again to give her a sibling.

Keep strong @ThoroughlyForumed. I hope you get your second line soon.

I hope you get the BFP soon OP.
My BFP came after only 2 months from coming off the pill. Was so shocked I'd convinced myself it would take longer. Told DP and we went for a lovely dog walk I had my last cigarette sat on a tree trunk whilst we couldn't take the grins off our faces. After being a smoker for nearly 20years, haven't had one since, that was in 2011 and I was trying to cut down but the BFP certainly gave me the kick I needed. I then had a mc followed by BFP 2 in 2014, number 2 did take a little longer. 2 DS now 4 & 8, and still not smoking. I have to add DP and I have been together since age 15 and were 34 for our 1st BFP so we took our time and I never thought I would be able to give up smoking.

I had my implant taken out 22nd August 2019. Me & my partner had the attitude of "it happens when it happens, no pressure" 11th October 2019 took a test as i had slightly sore boobs BFP, we were actually in complete shock because we did not expect it to happen ao quick 😐 obviously completely over the moon & I'm 34weeks on sunday 😊

We've been trying for three years and were due to start IVF until Covid happened.

Last night I was reading this thread thinking how lovely it would be, especially the ones where people didn't think it would happen to them.

Well I realised this morning that I was a couple of days late as I'd stopped tracking and tested. BFP!

@MoltenLasagne congratulations! 😍

We'd had a really big disappointment the month before (got over excited at one day late) so I'd waited all week until was 6 days late to even think about testing. I'm a teacher so every day I thought I can't test today just in case it's negative and I'll struggle to function. Also didn't tell DH as didn't want to get his hopes up again. I was speaking at a teaching conference on the Saturday so as soon as I got home I walked straight to the bathroom and took the test... then refused to look at it!! It took my husband an hour of quoting statistics and encouragement to get me to look at it!

The line was so strong, I silently passed it to my husband and he shouted 'holy sh*t'. Was a very exciting moment.

Now 28 weeks and fingers crossed all is going nicely :)

Sending so much love and positive wishes to you!! Xxx

We had just been on a week trip to New York, flew back into London on an overnight flight the day of my birthday and decided to stay near Hyde park for the night. My husband had got us off the tube at the wrong stop and we had to walk all the way through Hyde park in December with our heavy suitcases ( I was not happy to say the least).

I was due some treatment for migraine the next day which I routinely have to take a pregnancy test for. We were meeting his sister for cocktails to celebrate my birthday that evening and so I quickly did the test before we left as id only come off the pill the month or so before I didn’t think anything of it.

A line came up immediately! Threw all plans off and his sister knew immediately when I was on the virgin cocktails & I’m now 27 weeks pregnant!!

Lucky for me and DP, I got pregnant first month of trying properly using an ovulation app so we could time it during the month as otherwise would just be going at it blind. I only did one test. My periods are like clockwork and me being late for 3 days wasn’t normal so I got my BFP and I just thrust it into DP’s hand when he got home from work I was in shock I didn’t say much. I thought it’d never happen especially not so quickly as we’re not exactly spring chickens, me 30 him 45! I’m not the most maternal person either and part of me at first was like ‘oh no what have I done!’ I had terrible anxiety first trimester always thinking the worst, but am now 40+1 and impatient for baby to make an appearance soon! :)

Been trying for 3 years, maybe 4 on and off. I’d been taking Clomid and it was the last cycle of it we had before having to go back to fertility clinic and see if we’d get ivf - we qualify for one cycle but the specialist had been so negative about our chances even with ivf that I was pretty much trying to come to terms with the fact it just wasn’t happening for us. That last cycle of clomid coincided with loads of stuff going on for us and then us both getting ill so we only managed to have sex once all cycle. To be honest I was really fucked off we’d ‘wasted’ our last cycle and really clearly remember thinking ‘alias you’re just never having a baby, it’s time to face up to that and get on with the rest of your life’.

Anyway I had some bleeding around the time my period was due so assumed that was that. It stopped but my periods can be weird like that and things were so hectic I wasn’t paying much attention.

I woke up on the Saturday morning and went to the loo expecting my period to have restarted full force as that’s what normally happens. When it hadn’t, I thought sod it I’ll just do a test since I had them in anyway, and totally expected it to be negative like the many many times before. When a faint cross appeared very quickly I marched back into the bedroom where DH was still half asleep shouting ‘is that a cross IS THAT A CROSS?’ He wasn’t sure I did another test I had in, also a faint positive. I posted on mumsnet asking for line eyes. I text a picture to my sister saying ‘CAN YOU SEE A CROSS?’ Most people on mn and my sister too were saying it looked a positive result but DH and I were, I think, so scared of getting our hopes up and so worried we were wrong that we kept saying ‘it’s probably not, let’s not think about it ....’ then thinking about NOTHING else. I had to go into town for something so nipped into the chemist to buy a different test, then went to boots to get some pink dye ones as I’d heard they were more reliable (no idea if this is true!) I also bought the first response test that says pregnant/not pregnant and promised myself I’d wait a week and then try that one if my period still hadn’t come (I lasted until the next day). Even though I didn’t believe it I did spend most of the day googling pregnancy related articles and looking at maternity clothes and all kinds of stuff online, whilst still telling myself not to get excited!

28 weeks now and still haven’t got past the anxiety and worrying it will all be taken away, still feel like a bit of a fraud talking about my pregnancy or starting to buy baby things - which we’re only just doing now due to my extreme fear of ‘tempting fate’. I’m slowly starting to believe it’s definitely happening though

I was fairly sure I was pregnant, I was 5 days late but was putting off taking a test until the weekend as I would have finished work for Christmas. It was my birthday mid week and couldn't wait any longer. I got a positive result, when my partner came home I waved the rest at him and told him we had successfully merged our DNA. He replied with "well that's a scary way of putting it!"

It was my first cycle on letrozole and wasn’t really expecting it to work immediately. Was rather thinking ok, we’ll try this over summer and then start ivf. I was feeling strangely zen around the days my period was due. Maybe I had a little feeling I might be pg, but at the same time didn’t really believe it. Then one morning on my Ava bracelet my temp had jumped up despite being like dpo 13. Thought, well, this is exciting. But still had this zen feeling and didn’t really feel the urge to test before my period would be properly late. This is unusual since the past 1,5 years I had been testing in most cycles since dpo9! In the evening though, went to the loo and just suddenly decided what the hell, I’ll test now. And it was positive! My DH was cooking in the kitchen. I didn’t say anything to him immediately but kept the news to myself until I surprised him the next day

This bfp resulted in my DS. Got a second bfp by total surprise when he was less than a year old. That time I absolutely could not believe I could be pg despite period being late. But af just wouldn’t show up and started having all kinds of symptoms, so took a test. It was clearly positive. To be honest my reaction was shock and more like omg how will we survive this! Well, it ended up being a blighted ovum.

Now I’m contemplating starting ttc again and kind of looking forward to the excitement of testing nervously waiting

So nice to read all these stories. The first time I fell pregnant we were trying for 6 months and getting disheartened. The day I found out was a Saturday morning, I got up to get ready to go to work. I took the test then left it on the side of the bath a while. I happened to glance over and saw the 2 lines and was in utter shock. I ran through to show my partner (nowDH) and he just said "shit...what have we done?" We were so panicked and didn't believe it had actually happened. I had to go to work and act normal hiding this huge secret 😂.
The second time, was last week! This was a total shock , not planned at all but I'm about 6 weeks pregnant now. Basically my friends period always starts a day after me, and she mentioned she had hers and I thought, where's mine?! I thought I better do a test to rule it out.
Got the shock of my life when those lines showed up, im amazed it happened so easily this time, but we are happy

We'd been trying for two years, we'd had several very early losses and were feeling a bit beaten up by events.
We had a lovely weekend away in Dublin planned and decided to take time out. On Saturday we hosted a very boozy dinner party and served runny eggs and lush cheeses. On Sunday we went out for lunch and I had liver and bacon. On Monday we trundled off to Dublin. For some reason I thought I'd better check and bought a multipack of tests from Boots at the airport. We sat in our hotel room, testing repeatedly and watching the Gulf War on TV. It was like being in a very weird, cosy, unreal bubble. The best weekend ever (obviously not for the people in the middle east, but on a personal level).

it was 4 months after I'd had a mmc. it was a really nice sunny day and I thought to myself just get the testing and the disappointment over with then you can get on with the long weekend (was a bank holiday and forecast lovely weather) and I was about 10dpo. thought get the negative then you can drown your sorrows.

was in my work bathroom, low and behold it was positive I was so shocked! told my partner I thought I'd got a positive but not to get too attached (due to mc)

she is now the most lovely little baby - hope you get yours soon OP

I fell unexpectedly. I'd had some mood swings, wanted to eat some non normal foods, felt weird generally. OH bought me home a test as he'd realised it'd been a while since my last period (they're all over the place, anywhere between 14 and 60 day cycles) and it showed up straight away but he didn't say anything for the 3 minutes as he thought it might fade away again! I swore alot and we were in shock for hours - we'd not planned on having kids at all. Rang the families that night who were also very shocked but pleased and we got used to the idea pretty quick! DD is 13 now.

I knew I was pregnant from very early on and way before testing. I couldn't believe it really though as it was the first try but I just felt different (and also felt cramps!). On my 'test day' I woke up at 6am that Saturday morning and got up as I had to confirm either way using the test I'd bought the day before. It came up positive straight away and thank god I was still sitting on the toilet as my legs went to jelly. I then went back to bed and lay for 2 hours in shock!! When Oh woke o went and made us a coffee and thrust the test at him 😂

We had only been trying for a month when I had a serious horse riding accident (3 smashed ribs and a lacerated liver). Whilst lying on a spinal board and in a neck brace in a&e I was asked if I could be pregnant. I said I didn't think so but there was a chance so they did a test which came up negative.

I spent 10 days in hospital and had surgery to pin my ribs back together so when I came home my DH and I decided to put off trying for a couple of months while I recovered.

About a week after getting back home I started feeling really sick but just put it down to all the drugs and painkillers I was on (you name it, I was taking it). I hadn't had a period for ages but put it down to the accident and I have long and irregular cycles anyway. I even rang the dr who said I probably had a viral infection and he advised me to rest, drink plenty of fluids and if I wasn't better in a week he would bring me in for tests.

A week later and I was feeling worse but thought I better just take another test before I went to the drs and it came up positive! I was in so much shock I think I just sat on the loo for ages befote ringing my DH and telling him just before he went into work. Poor guy couldn't concentrate for the rest of the day.

Oh these stories are lovely 🥰

We were trying for 3 months (we were so lucky but it felt like ages at the time). I had an implantation bleed and knew from that moment I was pregnant but didn't say anything to anyone, just kept singing to myself in the car 'I'm taking my baby to the supermarket' 🥰

A week later I did a internet cheapie test and it had the faintest shadow line. It was a bank holiday and I tried to get out before DH woke up to get a FRER but all the shops were shut. When he woke up I got DH all excited then showed him the cheapie but he did not believe me! 🙈 Later in the day we got the FRER and he cried when he saw the line.

I love remembering those days when it was just me and my cluster of cells (now 15mo DD) singing in the car together ❤️❤️❤️

We tried for years, before I had a picture in mind of finding out and all the ways I could announce it to DH as a surprise. Had IVF treatments and the real bfp moment and happiness were so much more than I could have ever imagined.

The first day my period didn't turn up, I went to buy a test from the local supermarket. The local youth football team were packing bags at the checkout for donations. The 14 yr old boy who packed my pregnancy test handled it with only two fingers, looking wildly uncomfortable the entire time 😂

I went home, peed, took a picture of the "pregnant" and sent it to my husband who was on his way home from work. I planned to tell him in person, but just couldn't wait!