Poll: How did you...

Futuremrssoll

Tell your DH you were pregnant? ?

?When i told him, we were not officially "trying' to get pregnant yet, but I was sick to my stomach for 3 days in a row, and then felt really bloated, plus my boobs hurt! ?So my DH joked and was like, maybe youa re pregnant. ?So I decided to take a test and well, it showed pregnant! ?So then I was really freaked out, and took the other! ?When my Dh got home I thought I could be really creative, however, I was too excited. ?I sat im down on the couch and handed him the tests! ?He pretty much laughed and cried for about 10 minutes and kept saying, "But what does this mean??!!" ?It was funny. ?How did you do it??

rlthomas7

We had been trying, finally started charting, and we knew we hit the "right" days on vacation. So when I took the Dollar Tree test that morning, I saw a line but he didn't see one. So that day at lunch I bought an expensive test, took it in the bathroom at work and took it home. Put the pregnancy for dads book on the counter beside the clearly positive test and let him discover it. Not super creative, but it wasn't that much of a surprise either. But definitely good news after 9 months of trying. Amazingly, he still didn't quite believe after seeing two clear lines. He seemed to want an MD to verify it - but the docs wouldn't see us for months!

summerbridesara

We started trying in June of 07 and I got pregnant right away.  I had taken a HPT and got a very faint positive.  DH was very insistent that I didn't test unless he was there - he wanted to be a part of it all the way.  So we were having neighbors over that night....I decided to run out at the last minute and get a digital.  I came home, ran into the bathroom and tested.  DH was out on the patio with the neighbors.  It was the longest 3 minutes of my life!  Finally, I looked at the test and saw "Pregnant".  I ran out of the bathroom, out to the patio and handed the test to DH.  He was so excited he jumped up, knocking his chair over in the process and picked me up hugging me.  The neighbors started clapping and congratulating us.  We called all of our family and friends over the next hour.   Then I had a m/c less than a week later

I got pregnant again that November.  This time around we were super cautious.  We tested together and got a faint positive again.  I then went through a round of betas and things progressed well.  It was quite stressed the second time because of the fear of m/c again.  Once we got the doubling betas and saw her hb on the u/s, things relaxed and we had fun telling our families.

ntnylizard

We were trying, but had given up hope after five months of no period after stopping BCP.  After a weekend of being exhausted and feeling all-around crappy, I decided to take a test Monday morning before work.  Hadn't really thought the whole thing through, so when I saw the two lines, I just called him into the bathroom, still in shock myself.  His response?  "Dude, are you kidding me?  Does that mean what I think it means?  For real?  Wait, how did this happen?"

I only had about 10 minutes to finish getting ready and leave for work, so that first day was horrible for both of us, since we didn't really have time to absorb the completely welcome but totally unexpected result.

jasonlovessara

After 7 months of trying I was sure that again I was not pg... DH and I were talking about it and her kept telling me that I was pg.  I yelled at him and told him that he was going to jinx us.  I ended up testing (because I did that all the time... this was the first time that I had that month) at 10 dpo and didn't think that it would do anything and low and behold that 2nd pink line came up right away I just stared at it and walked out of the bathroom and showed DH... we were both shocked, DH was then proud of himself because 1-he was right and 2- he managed to "knock me up"...

I had wanted to do something really cute but when I saw that it was positive all that went by the wayside!

PAAZwife

I really didn't think it was our month, because I thought that our timing was completely off.  I ended up getting sick for the second time in two weeks, and I found out that SIL (who I'd just spent time with) had pneumonia.  I figured if I went to the doctor I might end up needing a chest x-ray and didn't want one if I was pg.  So I decided to test anyway even though I thought it was stupid.  So he got up and got in the shower and I went to our other bathroom to test.  I forgot my timer, but after about 30 seconds of waiting to look at the test, I decided it was negative and threw it in the trash.  DH got out of the shower and I got in.  When I got out, I decided to torture myself and pull the test out of the trash.  There was a faint line.  I wasn't going to tell DH that I had tested, but when I came out of the bathroom he asked.  I told him and showed him the test, but I didn't believe it not knowing how long it had been exactly.  Later that day I bought another test and took it to confirm, and I just called DH on the phone at work.  The next day I took a digital to confirm yet again.  It was totally lame since we were not expecting it at all.

mrspablondie

When I got pregnant with Connor we had been trying for a couple of cycles after my miscarriage and were having trouble due to late ovulation.  So when I actually got pregnant I was shocked.  I went upstairs in the middle of the afternoon because I was going to have a beer and thought I should test just in case, DH didnt know I was testing.  I came downstairs to tell him and he was in the bathroom so I just stood outside the door waiting, he opened the door and I was standing there cying holding the test - he started crying right away

Futuremrssoll

This is how I told Kyle today....!!!! ?I made a onsie for Eli that says "Big Bro In Training." ?I was planning on not even testing until Thursday because my DH is going to New York tomorrow for 2 days, but I could not take it anymore! ?I really thought I was, sooo, 3 tests later! ?I'm pregnant again! ?I had the shirt on Eli when he got home and it took him like all of 20 seconds before he read the shirt. ?He was like "Big bro in training huh? Wait, big bro in training? ?What does that mean? ?Does that mean? ?Really? ?Wait, what does that mean?" ?haha! ?I showed him the tests! ?Now, its pretty early on, I'm just around 4 weeks. ?We have not told anyone yet! ?So if you actually know one of us on the outside, haha, keep it to yourselves! ?Prayers appreciated!

Christina617

CONGRATS!!  How exciting!

I had a PSU baby hat for 5 years and planned to use it as part of telling DH.  All throughout ttc I would test after he left for the gym in the morning so that I would be able to surprise him with it when he got home.  That day I expected to see another negative pg test.  After my initial shock wore off I ran around our house like a maniac digging out that hat out of a closet, putting a note on it, putting it in a gift bag, and setting up our camera to record video.  The video couldn't have turned out better ... all because of his amazing reaction.  youtube.com/user/cvm2005

Futuremrssoll

I remember watching the video! ?It was great!

fxz109

We had tried for about a year, got frustrated, so then I went back on BCP for 5 months.  We when we decided to try again, I went off BCP and started using OPKs.  It was our 2nd cycle off BCP.  I has spent the previous week in MA for work, and looking for any sign of pregnancy, but not really finding any.  But Saturday morning after breakfast, I felt kinda crappy.  I thought it was too soon to test (10 DPO), but I had a dentist appt on Monday morning and would have to test eventually anyway in case I needed X-rays, so I figured "what the hell" thinking that I'd get a BFN and have to buy a new test to use on Monday morning before the appt.

I go to the bathroom to test w/o telling DH what I'm doing.  After a few mintues, I get a faint positive.  I grab the stick, run down the hallway to the living room and shove the stick in DH's face, asking him how many lines he sees.  He replies "one and a half?" not reallly sure what that meant, or what the hell I was doing.  I tell him a line is a line, and "one and half" is actually two, and we're pregnant!  He hops up off the couch and hugs me.  I'm still standing there in shock, and we both start crying. 

Totally not cute at all.

jldlm

We were headed out of town for DH's job (and my PT job)... and the travel weekends like that tend to include alcohol in the evenings.  I was a few days late, and I knew we hadn't been super careful that month, so we stopped along the way to get a test.  I waited until the next morning to take it.  There was no faint lines about it... so I just sat it on the back of the toilet to see if DH would notice (I was too in shock to think of anything else).  He goes in to take a shower, and comes right out and says "what does this mean?"...  so I hand him the box that explains what the lines mean.  He reads the box, and says again "what does this mean?"  Then in disbelief... "but... wha...  how did that happen?"  Oh, DH...  :-)