Tell me your pregnancy test stories! I 'heart' reading how people found out they were expecting!

[Litterbug]

[lizziemun]

DD1 Hadn't a period for 6 mths ttc for 18mths and had just got letter to see infertily specialist.

Mum was staying the weekend and i asked her if the milk was off, she no your pg go do a test. I didn't believe for a moment i was and so shocked when it postive (i was 10wks gone)

DD2 again had ttc for 2yrs. This time dh told me to do a test and again i shocked when it was positive and yes once again i was 9wks gone.

[ChocOrange05]

I was on the mini pill as we weren't even TTC. Thought that was at least 2/3 years down the line for us!

I had been out a lot in recent weeks drinking a lot more than usual and one night after 3 pints and feeling a little tipsy I thought that I hadn't had a period for a while (which was quite normal being on the mini pill) and that if I was pregnant all the drinking would be bad for a baby so "just to put my mind at ease" (!!) I decided to take a test. When I got a positive I had to re-read it about 10 times to check it wasn't the beer googles!!

Then, convinced it was wrong and the beer must have influenced it I made DH drive us to the 24 hour tesco to buy more tests, as it was 11pm, and of course we bought the expensive clear blue digital ones! . Then proceeded to do the test in the Tesco loo's (classy I know!) and after about a minute of looking at an egg timer this big scary PREGNANT came up. I actually burst into tears (probably a combination of shock + beer!)

DH and I then spent a 20 minute car journey home in shock and funnily enough didn't get any sleep that night!! Now at 23 weeks I am just about getting used to it!

[dinkystinky]

With DS, we'd been ttc for just over 1 month, when I got v drunk on 2 glasses of wine (not like me at all) and I wondered if something was up. Then got headache couple of days later (again, unlike me) and didnt want to take any painkillers until tried a test - which came up positive! Husband was very proud of his "supersperm"....

This time round, twigged I may be pregnant (after ttc for just over 2 months) when I threw a total tantrum at my poor husband for no reason at all... did a preganancy test few days later and sure enough was positive!

[MrsTittleMouse]

I was on my 8th round of fertility treatment and I dutifully went into the bathroom in the morning to do my zillionth pregnancy test on the 14th day, thinking that at least after this go they would start the scary drug treatment which might increase my chances, so we might as well get this negative over and done with so that we could concentrate on the next round.
But it was a postitive. No "darling, I'm pregnant!" moment for us, as DH (rather obviously) knew that I was testing and I came back into the bedroom and said "f*ing hell". Not one to tell the grandchildren!

[NatalieJaneIsPregnantAgain]

DS1, had family come to stay, waited all weekend for them to sod off so I could test because I just knew it was going to be positive, and it was

DS2, tested, BFN, tested again and again and again all BFN, decided I wasn't pregnant so stopped testing, 9 days later DH bought a test because I still hadn't got my period and there was a line (well a dot actually)

DC3, Again just knew I was pregnant, tested thinking it was a bit early, but sod it, and the bloody line came up as I was POAS! Told MN before DH LOL Though to be fair I did try to phone DH first.

[LullyMummaOfOne]

Well as my DS was not planned the result came as a complete shock. I was on the mini pill (taking 2 a day due to my weight) and the day of the bombings on July 7th 2005 i came down with a really bad water infection. I couldnt get home from London due to the days events so i managed to get to my husbands houses (who at the time was only a 7th month old boyfriend). I Stopped off at his doctors in cronic pain and the Doctor said 'take this pot and privide a urine sample please' so i did and to my horror he said ' your pregnant'

I couldnt believe it, nearly fainted to be homest. Anyway told DH that night and we have been a very happy family since. Now im pregnant again with DC2 which was very much planned so this time has been completly different. I still laugh about it now

[blot4]

Both times I've found out I was pg my dh was abroad with the army. The first time he found out about a week after I'd done the test by telephone (long silence ensued). This time I had to write as he didn't have access to a phone/computer!

He says he is not going abroad again for a long time !!!

[mummy2bsoon]

i had been married for just under 3 months, we came back from holiday, and i started having a funny stomach ache...texted my sister in law who was on holiday, asking her somthing and both her and her partner got it into there head that i was pregnant... i told dh, and he was like yeh get a test...

went to high street with mil, and tried getting rid of her, while i went into boots, i stood there for 10 mins trying to figure out which test to buy, brought the most expensive one i could find, lol what an idiot...

got the test and kept readin it over and over, waited for dh to come home... we went to mil for dinners, and then at night he was lik dooooooo the test... i was lik, omg if i have to pee on a stick so do u.

when i went to the loo, and peed on the stick, it was positive, i kept sayin omg!

i went out and showed dh- he jus smiled and hugged me, i cried and he was liek ur not happy! i was in shock, married under 3 months and pregnant...

we kept it to ourselves for a day, was nice and special...

now im 40 weeks on wednesday...cnt wait!

[bethoo]

me and dp had not been using anything and knew there was a risk but when my very regular period was late i bought those 3 for a £1 cheap tests and the test was negative so thought nothing of it, took another nect day still neg nad left it at that but when period had still nto arrived a few more days later thought sod it got one left may as well wee on it!
needless to say it was a BFP and still in shock at 26 weeks! getting used to the idea of a girl as have a gorgeous ds already only 16 months now so little age gap!

[GirlWithTheMouseyHair]

we came off the pill at christmas but my periods have always been erratic and i was weoking two jobs and knackered so not suprised when tests kept coming up negative and no period....after a particularly heavy night filled with sambuccas, I hadn't tested in about a fortnight and had another heavy night coming up so bought a test just to make sure - DH told me not to bother and just call the doctor to find out why period still hadn't turned up

nearly fell off the toilet when the line came up, called DH straight away and we just said "oh fucking hell" donw the phone to each other for about half an hour! did a digi test with DH later, the final night of my play - the one time we were both convinced it would be negative! turns out by that point i was already 8 weeks gone!

[pigleychez]

DH and I had been trying for a few months. This was our third month.

We were in Paris when we concived on a long weekend away.

Had been looking out for symptoms and had a few niggly feelings ( think it was implantation)
On the Sunday DH and i went out to buy a test... although it was about 4 days earlier than my period was due.

Sunday night whilst cleaning teeth we joked and i said i didnt think really think i was ( although hoped) but DH said he had a feeling i was. Anyway he then bet 20p i was! so we shook on it- daft.
Monday morning i woke went and did the test then got back into bed as i was sure i wasnt preg. Few minutes later DH came into the bedroom ranting about how i owe him 20p.. I though he was winding me up till i checked for myself!

Just stood there in total shock with DH hugging me grinning like a cheshire cat.

To this day he winds me up about not misjdging his judgment---- hes always right

Im due on Sat

[WellyBelly]

On a work trip in Bangkok at New Year, had dp with me as didnt want to be apart at that time of year, sad I know . Totally convinced wasn't pg, long story but told 8 weeks before that conceiving may be problematic, but bought Thai pg kit as had had sore boobs for few weeks. Was so sure I wasnt i peed on the stick and didnt even bother checking it. Anyway, was supposed to be working at midnight but had a delay call so still at hotel, dp casually remarked after bathroom vist himself that the test was negative, I looked at it and saw v.faint line, hence ten minutes of 'omg is it or isnt it' discussion with stick held up to the light, only Thai instructions so didnt really help!!! Gradually dawned that in fact I could be and, with that loads of fireworks lit up Bangkok skyline to ring in the New Year....
Was pretty special and confirmed it with good old Boots brand bought at the airport before flight home. 7 weeks to go!

[Litterbug]

These stories are lovely

Alot of people with fertility problems seem to conceive just as they go for tests don't they?

[Ledodgy]

With dd it was rather surreal. We'd been trying for 9 months with no luck. Then one afternoon I was on my way to work and as I got off the bus I burst into tears, one of my workmates had just got off another bus and found me like this asking what was wrong and I said I had no idea!. It gets weirder as she walked me to work there was a huge crowd of people and we were pushed to the front and who's there? Only the bloody queen. We'd both forgotten she was visiting the city today and somehow been pushed right next to her on the otherside of the barrier!. Finally got to work and boss sent me home. On the off chance I bought a test on the way back took it at home and it was positive and so were the ten or so more I did over that weekend!

dc2 (I m/c) I'd had a cold , we weren't trying, dd was only 9 months, I felt like rubbish and did a digital test I had spare. it said 'Pregnant' I went downstairs to tell dp and he said 'what did you do to make it say that?'

ds1 I felt ropey, we weren't trying but weren't not trying either. I took a test a year to the day I m/c dc2 and it was positive!

ds2 We definately weren't trying. We'd done the deed once using nothing, I was drunk dp wasn't. I blame him. Felt sick 7 days after took test and it was positive. I was came on here became less shocked. Ds2 is 6 months old.

[NormaStanleyFletcher]

with DD I was trying not TNotTC, hence the mirena coil. My periods had stopped about 6 or 7 months before. I was really ill for two weeks, and saw the docs, and while I was there mentioned I had put on a load of weight. She checked my coil was still in place which it was.

I went and bought a test. Positive. Rang DH who was working away, he came back with a travel cot that one of his mates was selling.

Went for a scan and found I was 19 weeks pg.

It was my "half length PG according to FIL" as everyong (including me) only knew about it for half of the time

[Ecmo]

DH went to asthma clinic at doctor's for routine checkup. While he was there he read a leaflet that said it takes on average a year to conceive so he comes home and tells me this and we decide to start trying.
4 days later...I started to feel odd...never got any symptoms that early with the others. We'd only been married for 7 months..so much for all the travelling plans!

[notcitrus]

Had been ttc on and off for about 5 years, kept having other medical problems needing sorting, in particular no periods, but Provera+clomid had managed to produce a couple periods - still hadn't managed to tell if I was ovulating or not. Basically given up on the whole thing as didn't want IVF and would be able to be closely involved with SIL2's baby.

December - kept getting useless consultant's answerphone when trying to arrange appt to discuss more Clomid etc. Did test on New Year's Eve so I could either celebrate or drown my sorrows. Neg - but only had a couple drinks anyway. Quote that will come back to haunt me, pointing at SIL2: "You've got to give birth in 2008, and I don't, ner-ner!"

Jan - losing weight I'd put on in the autumn, and stopped throwing up lots (a problem for the last 3 years).
late Feb - thought I'd got some bug and was shattered, slept loads, and then got a cold which wiped me out so much I had to take 6 days off work. On the 6th day I thought I'd better see my GP and get a sicknote.

GP decided to repeat all the routine blood tests they'd done on me every few months, but I didn't think anything of it as they always came back normal.

The next week, about to go to bed when I saw a boring-looking letter in the hall, and decided to open it so it could go straight to the recycling bin.

"Dear Dr NotCitrus,
Your recent blood tests show you are definitely pregnant. Please see one of us ASAP. A urine test should now also be positive. Best wishes, Your GP."

I bounced up the stairs screaming for MrNC, and gave him the letter. Dazed, he asked "Do you have a test thing?"

Two minutes later, a huge purple line appeared even before the control line and I screamed and giggled even more. We both gibbered through the night.

But not as much as when I saw my GP 2 days later and he said "I think you're 14-16 weeks"!!! I was still convinced it was going to be some kind of cyst until I had a scan a few days later and saw a head, heartbeat, limbs and all! And yes, over 14 weeks.

Looking back, I'd had some dry skin, wussed out of a sauna, and had a bit of a metallic taste in my mouth, but no other symptoms - unlike now...

The really embarrassing thing is I have a doctorate that was mainly in embryology!