let's share how we found out

Sonya Flanagan · April 2009

I did this a long time ago and it's kind of fun to hear everyone's answers

I found out I was pregnant because my gf called me all pissed off because she got her period. And I started to freak when she told me. I knew she was a week after me, relgiously.

So I call Howdy. And asked him to go get me some PG tests so I could take them when I finally got to town.

I had NO IDEA I was. How could I have even gotten pregnant! I was working 120 hours in the oil/methane fields, I spent more time with my crew and supervisor than Howdy.

He's a fabulous husband and went and bought me tests. I took the two in the box, one we had at home and finally realized, um yeah sister, no more oilfield for you.

I can tell you which truck I was in, what location we were on and what crew I was with. Totally crazy.

opallover · April 2009

I found out the day I became pregnant [essentially], I was 5 weeks pregnant. sad thing is that I had a hangover when I tested and found out. ugh.

E&Jhssweethearts · April 2009

After going off B/C my periods were really irregular, like 50+ days the first cycle, 40-something the second, so I knew when I "might" get my period and tested that week, negative, no biggy, I figured I would wait a week and if no AF test again, so the day came, I wasn't really expecting a positive, just figured my period was going to be even later, then BAM! Positive, I have never felt such a surge of emotions all in one moment, it was surreal.

superisa00 · April 2009

We were TTC, but I thought we had missed our chance in August because of poor timing on my part. I "knew" I was not pregnant. I realized while running around with my SIL that my period was 9 days late, but I was having cramps and sore boobs like always before AF so I was not concerned. She convinced me to take a test at her apt. I mis-read the results, thought it was a negative and threw it in the trash. It was not until 10 minutes later that I thought "hmmm I should look at that again". Then commenced several moments of nervous laughter and uncontrollable shaking.

manda_mullins · April 2009

I had been tracking and charting, but had JUST got a script for BCP b/c after a year of trying, I wanted to try to lose some weight before trying again.

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I kept waiting for my period so I could start my pills, but didn't wanna get my hopes up. At cycle day 48 (12 days after I shouldn't have gotten AF), I had a leaky nipple. I finally decided to buy a test and told DH I was buying it, but it would probably be negative.

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I put off taking it til 1 a.m. so if it was negative I could try again with FMU. Like, .0001 secs after taking it, that second line appeared. I was in total disbelief, and went running down the stairs waving the test and asking DH "where's the fvcking box?!?!".

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We consulted the box, and I took a second test and sure enough, I was KTFU! ?

NHGirl04 · April 2009

We were not trying, and it had dawned on me that I was a week late for my period. I tested on a Friday and got a BFN. Had bouts of nausea over the weekend and tested Sunday morning. Wouldn't you know...it was positive. I freaked out and cried. Yep and I also tested with a big ol hangover as well.

**Gretchen** · April 2009

We were trying and I'd had an inkling I was pregnant (even told a friend and DH: "either I'm pregnant or I'm delusional").

Took a dollar store test on election day because I thought it'd be cool to find out I was pregnant and get a new president all in one day (yes, I'm a sap). It was negative.

Period was due on Friday. That day at work, I kept running to the bathroom thinking that I was starting. And I could barely eat lunch (very odd for beginning of period for me - I was always ravenous), I just wasn't hungry.

When period hadn't started, I raced to CVS and bought a first response test. Got home, took it, and squealed. The second line popped up almost immediately.

mavilabride · April 2009

I have suffered from motion sickness for years and have to take dramamine even to get on a roller coaster.

I was on a flight back from Switzerland when a wave of nausea hit me. But something told me that it wasn't a normal motion sickness nausea. So I got home that Friday and decided to test on Monday. Negative which made sense since besides that one night (that I explained below) we had not had unprotected sex. Well, that week I was still really sick. I would come home from work and pass out. Plus I had awful headaches that wouldn't go away. On Friday (Halloween) I decided to take the 2nd test and it was positive. FI came home and found me sitting in the bathroom on the floor staring at the test. I had called him and told him to get his rear home immediately lol

heyyohe · April 2009

Hahaha...wow. Thats awesome.

We found out this way. I was still teaching, and I dunno, I just felt different. I KNEW I was pregnant. I could smell EVERYTHING, and was exhausted. BUt my period has always been all crazy, so who knows, right?

Well, I snuck out of work one day (I taught gifted/talented and went to different schools, and one day a week was just an office day, so no onw missed me) and went to CVS...bought a test... went to a friends house and took it. It was negative. So we had, oh, a bottle of wine, then went out that night w/ our DH's for mexican and margaritas. The whole night, though, I felt like I was, and couldn't finish my margarita.... I was terrified that I was and the wine had pickeled my child.

fast forward about a week. I had now taken roughly 5 neg tests. Another friend is a manager at a Walgreenes, and came over w/ 3 of the fancy-scmancy digital ones. DH laughed at me and told me to give it up, but I took one anyway. I peed, put it down, and took a shower..but kept peeking at it...it has a little hourglass that dances around while its getting your result. Finally, I saw it had words. but I'm REALLY nearsighted, so I screamed for DH, and it said pregnant! S0 I took the other 2..all positive. I took a picture of all 3 of them..I still have it.

RubyRed1085 · April 2009

Howdy... I think you have the next coming of Jesus in there. lol.

(My story is REALLY boring.)

I've been preg before, so I knew I didn't feel right this time, and decided after AF didn't show up after 4 days, we bought some tests. I got up at 5:45am, peed on the stick, the results showed up almost IMMEDIATELY!!! I dropped the stick in utter shock, started to cry. Then I left peed on another one ... just to make sure. Yup, definitely KU. I left them on the bathroom counter, crawled back in bed with FI, told him Good Morning Daddy. He grumbled and rolled back over. Fast forward to an hour later, he gets up to get ready for work, came back in the room, said, "Ya know, I peed on the stick and it said Negative... so I think yours are wrong." He's a dork, but it was cute the way he said it. That's our story.

cookin'bun · April 2009

i had already gotten two negative pg tests one of which was a blood test at the dr's office. we were so sad. we had been trying for over a year so we made an appt to see a specialist for a consultation. i was expecting my period and the appt date was coming up but had nothing. i was having cramps so i thought maybe its my mind i wanted this so badly that its all i could think about so now my mind wasnt letting my period come down. so while out at the store i told my husband maybe i just need to see yet another negative result so it can come already. so we bought the cheapest pg test at the store. after we spent a small fortune on all these tests for over a year we get the cheapest one ever. i think it cost all of 2 bucks at walmart. when we got home from the store dh was putting other stuff away in the kitchen and i said give me that test so i can just get this over with and as soon as i peed on it. the little pink plus sign started to appear. def not the answer i was looking for but it was the most beautiful pink plus sign i had ever seen. i ran back to the kitchen with tears in my eyes and i just couldnt say anything. we just held each other in the kitchen in disbelief. needless to say ever the skeptic i was at the dr's office first thing the next morning to take another test and get the confirmation i needed.?

great now im crying again.?

orion09 · April 2009

After a night of careless [no protection] sex, i thought i was preg weeks later.... especially after my BFF called complaining about her cramps [I am one week before her! ALWAYS!] but it wasn't my first time thinking that. Dh said he didn't want to deal with my "thinking" and not knowing so he went and grabbed some tests... i cried out of confusion... and then happiness.... guess the hormones were working early!

Corinneallyson · April 2009

I had been off of b/c for 3 weeks. My back started hurting me in the worst way I've ever felt, literally about a week after conception. I also got a high (102) fever and cold. I picked up "The Caveman's Guide to being an Expectant Father" at Barnes and Noble, and then picked up the pregnancy test. I went home, took the test, and sure enough, it was positive. I knew it couldn't be anything else....three weeks...lol.

ParisPreggo · April 2009

I'm irregular all the time so I keep dollar store tests under my sink to try to keep my mind at ease when I realize I'm fairly late. I couldn't hold down my thanksgiving dinner and it clicked right before we left his moms house so i waited the whole ride home ran upstairs (could barely hold it) grabbed the test, It had a dropper but no cup so I?used the lid to DH's shaving cream lol and almost instantly it came up double lines. We had been being careful for the most part so it was kinda a shock... They really mean it when they say it only takes one time.?

MrsKatie07 · April 2009

Every month for about the 6 months previous to BFP, I was sure I was pregnant. I had symptoms every time, and I always got a negative. The month I got BFP, I was sure I wasn't pg. No symptoms, but I didn't keep track of when I had my period very well. I thought it was a week or two late, so I waited til a Saturday morning so we could be together and have the whole day to let it soak in if it was positive. We were pretty shocked when that digital "Pregnant" came up!

NoelleHansen · April 2009

DH and I just started not trying to not get pregnant - we're older and I wasn't convinced it would even happen, so we were just taking the laid back approach, no pun intended. Anyway, I was on AF at an appointment for something completely unrelated and had a follow up appointment in about 5 weeks or so. So I thought, well, if I haven't started again by next appt, I'll test. The appt came and went but even then, I wasn't too convinced because the cycle before was 45 days (now I wonder if I wasn't pg for a few weeks and m/c). I thought that was another sign that I wouldn't conceive. Shortly after the 2nd appt and not having given it much more thought, DH and I were sitting at the b-fast table with our sons. DH made eggs and sausages. I HATE sausage - the only exception being when I was pregnant. I couldn't get the little sausages from the platter, to my plate to my mouth fast enough. I had one on my fork, heading for my mouth and I thought "wow, I can't remember the last time I actually WANTED sausage" and about that time I looked up and into my sons faces and thought..."Actually, I do". We got a HPT and tested that night.

haleyw458 · April 2009

A couple of friends came to town to go out and eat for a friends birthday. We went to Chili's...I was REALLY craving a cheeseburger. After we were finished eating I made them go to Wal-Mart with me and get some tests. We left and I took the tests. They both said positive but I didn't believe it, so the next morning I went back and got digital ones...and took all 3. It took a while to kick in! lol

Mrs.Leah.Maria · April 2009

Dh and I were our first month into charting and trying. I woke up Sunday morning to a very disappointing two degree drop, woke up DH and told him on to the next month.

That night DH convinced me to have a bonfire just the two of us and kick back with our last remaining bottle of wine {which was a very nice bottle and had been a gift}. I wasn't too keen on opening the bottle, but DH finally got my approval and there we sat, just the two of us, enjoying our fire and wine . . . until the dog knocked half of the bottle out! I was pissed.

Little did I know that would be my last sip of wine!

The next morning I ended up having to run home from work to prepare for an outting I was unexpectedly invited to. For some reason, I decided it was a good time to POAS. My temp had shot back up that morning and I figured what the heck.

I saw lines, all alone in my house 30 minutes from DH. I was in complete shock!

MrsGibson07 · April 2009

I had an the Paraguard IUD for awhile and decided to get it removed so we could start trying. Well, having had it so long, my periods were so off that I really didnt know when I was ovulating or when I should start. Month one, we marked everything on the calendar and nothing. Month two, we figured out when we THOUGHT I was ovulating, but a few weeks after my "ovulation time" we decided to have a heated night (and it wasnt scheduled!) .. and thats what did it! I went to the dr. on Friday to get a blood test and nothing. I knew I felt different so I went and bought a home test on Monday night and sure enough I was pregnant! DH was the one who read the test first (I was never allowed to stay in the bathroom with the test.. I had to leave and be just as surprised). I have never seen him look so shocked and happy!

**Gretchen** · April 2009

RubyRed1085:
Howdy... I think you have the next coming of Jesus in there. lol.
(My story is REALLY boring.)
I've been preg before, so I knew I didn't feel right this time, and decided after AF didn't show up after 4 days, we bought some tests. I got up at 5:45am, peed on the stick, the results showed up almost IMMEDIATELY!!! I dropped the stick in utter shock, started to cry. Then I left peed on another one ... just to make sure. Yup, definitely KU. I left them on the bathroom counter, crawled back in bed with FI, told him Good Morning Daddy. He grumbled and rolled back over. Fast forward to an hour later, he gets up to get ready for work, came back in the room, said, "Ya know, I peed on the stick and it said Negative... so I think yours are wrong." He's a dork, but it was cute the way he said it. That's our story.

I love your DH's line.

ernuno787 · April 2009

I stopped taking my BC right after our wedding at the beginning of June and we took the approach of whatever happens will happen. So, fast forward to end of August and I hadn't had a visit from AF yet that month, which I thought was odd because even the 1st cycle off of BCP I got my period on time like always. I was way emotional more than usual and thought I was getting a stomach virus or something, I obviously was in denial. We were going away to Dewey Beach, DE with our best man Daniel the weekend after Labor Day so DH convinced me to tak ea test before we left so that I wouldn't be consuming alcohol while pregnant. So, on Labor Day I woke up first thing that morning and immeadiately POAS convinced it was going to say negative and go about my day. Well, I was WRONG. It came up positive almost immeadiately. So, with test in hand I went back into the bedroom crawled on the bed and shook DH awake, which irritated him, and basically shoved the test in his face and asked, "You ready to be a Daddy now?" I will never forget that day.

ForForever · April 2009

It was our first month TTC and my period was supposed to come on my DH's birthday. It hadn't come by mid-afternoon and I thought something might be up. I kept talking myself out of getting excited because I didn't want to get my hopes up, but I would have loved to tell him I was pregnant on his birthday.

On my lunch I ran to get a couple tests from Target. Came back to work, peed on one, positive showed right away. I then had to spend the next 3-ish hours freaking out at work waiting to go home and tell my husband. On the way home I stopped to get my husband another birthday card and a digital test. It had "# 1 Dad" on the front.

I got home and peed on the digital right away. Came out with the stick behind my back and gave him the birthday card. He thought the card was "from" our dogs until he got to the part where I wrote in "can't wait to meet you! I should be here around July 14!" Then I showed him the pregnancy test. I thought he was going to fall out of his chair. Neither one of us expected it right away.

peachypear · April 2009

DH and I started TTC as soon as we returned from our honeymoon. After the first try, I felt different. No one ever believes me, but I knew I was pg from the first day. But I didn't want to get our hopes up, so I didn't tell DH and waited a two weeks after my period should have come to test. So hard!

We went to the doctor's office instead of doing a home test. I go to a teaching hospital, so there was a doctor and an intern. They did the test and came back - and just handed me the test strip. I had no idea how to interpret it! So I just stared at them... finally I said "sooooo... what does this mean?" The doctor laughed when he realized he hadn't actually said! Then they told us that the intern had never done a pg test, so as they were doing it, he asked "what will a positive look like?" The doctor simply said "Just. Like. This." Apparently it came up positive immediately!

LOL, but I seriously made them nervous because I didn't react, just nodded. But it was because I already was convinced I was pg. It took DH a while to assure them that it was planned and very good news. I felt like an ass!

Purrrfect433 · April 2009

I was at an event for Ben's preschool and I was thinking, "ok, I *should* get my period tomorrow, right? First day of my last period was X. X+22=HOLY SHIIT. I'm already a day late!!! NOOOOOO". I texted my husband to tell him to bring home an HPT when he got off of work. I took it and he said, "I'll look at it. You always think you see a super faint line when nothing's there.". Five minutes later, he went to grab the test, yelled "Mother Effer!" and I said, "That's NOT funny, jerk.". He handed me the test and I started to cry. It was plain as day. Big F-ing Positive. It took several months to wrap our minds around this third, unexpected pregnancy. We're past the dread now, and slowly getting more and more excited:) I wish we had some darling story where we were both thrilled to bits after finding out. Oh well!

TennisWife815 · April 2009

We were trying and I was off BCP all of six weeks. I had a dream on a Saturday night that I peed on a stick and it was positive. So DH was leaving for a business trip for the week and I decided I'd take a test Sunday morning before he left -- BFN. But I was charting, knew when I'd ovulated (my birthday), and knew it was still early. On Tuesday, I had "my period" but it only lasted four hours. So on Wednesday I got another BFN. Thursday I was craving Mexican and pizza -- really out of character -- my boobs had been sore for days, and I knew I'd starting taking lots of naps. It wasn't making sense. So Friday morning, I woke up at 4 a.m. (this had been happening for at least two days with awful cramping) and decided I'd pee on one last stick. I could barely see straight and thought my eyes were fooling me when I saw the positive, so I took out another one. DH was coming home that afternoon -- needless to say when he called and send he was home, I left the office and came home in a tank top wearing a shirt that said "kicking 24/7". He knew it was odd I was home early and then says, "Why are you wearing that shirt? It's really casual for work." I looked at him and said, "read it again." He got it! We made out in the hallway. End of story ...

M.Amy · April 2009

RubyRed1085:
Fast forward to an hour later, he gets up to get ready for work, came back in the room, said, "Ya know, I peed on the stick and it said Negative... so I think yours are wrong." He's a dork, but it was cute the way he said it. That's our story.

That is so cute!! What a great DH!

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