GTKY: Nostalgia to May 2013

ShePersisted · May 2014

I cannot believe it's May and it is already a year since we found out we we were expecting LO. Given that most of F14 would have found out around this time, give or take few weeks, I wanted to just get a little nostalgic and bring back the sweet memory of when LO was just a tiny blip inside.

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?
3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?

ShePersisted · May 2014

1. I was not expecting being pregnant but since we had been trying I was diligently checking as soon as I was 10-11 days post ovulation. One fine morning I did the routine and noticed a very faint line on the stick. I could not tell for sure so I ran to the window to look at it in sunlight. It was definitely a line even though it was very very light

2. I told DH immediately but he just nonchalantly shook my hand. We have had 3 chemical and a blighted ovum in the past so he had made a conscious effort to not get super excited until we confirmed the heart beat. We did not tell anyone else until 8 weeks. I only told my mom after the dr confirmed the pregnancy

3. It was DH birthday first week in July and people kept handing me the wine glass at his birthday party. He told one of his friends that I was expecting and he dodged every single glass that came my way to the point that he was being awkward and obvious. If I wasn't so elated about being preggers I would have whacked him on his head. I'm sure he raised some eyebrows but people had the good manners to not ask me anything.

And I just want to add that the day I found out I lay in bed at night thinking about what it would be to hold my baby and I wonder how life will be one year from now. Yeah that one year went by and holding my baby was nothing like imagined. It's the most out if this world feeling to know that the adorable munchkin sleeping by your side was once just a tiny peanut inside you. #miracleshappen

ShePersisted · May 2014

TyrannosaurusLex said:
@hg45 he shook your hand?

He meant it as a joke like we were business partners on a mission and the handshake was mission accomplished - like good job partner we got the deal done. After 4 positives that were a no go he also probably did not want to show any excitement but did not know how lol.

littleaviary · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
DH and I got married June 1st, went on our honeymoon to CO, and a week after we got back I hadn't gotten my period still. I never kept track of it, so I was only about 80% sure I was late. My sisters, 16 and 18 at the time, we're staying with us for a few days so I bought a test and some random lotion at Walgreens and hid the test in my purse so sister wouldn't see it. Took it home, peed on it, and... Surprise!

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?
I went to the bedroom door and asked DH to come in for a sec. He followed me into the bathroom and I just pointed. He didn't read it correctly at first and wasn't sure why I had called him in, then he looked more closely and got it! We weren't trying so it was a bit of a shock, he sat down on the toilet and started sweating :-SS

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?
I was so scared to tell FIL and MIL, who are more like my parents than my own. When DH told FIL, he just got up and hugged me and told me it would be ok

we met MIL for lunch right after that and told her. She was excited, and FIL shed a few (happy!) tears. This little girl has him wrapped around her finger now!

Missy0483 · May 2014

1. I was 11dpo and it was on May 28, I took a cheap test at night and it was so faint I thought I was seeing things. I went to Walmart on my lunch break the next day to get a FRER and it was a definite positive.
2. I typed up a letter for DH that said "Our little monkey sent us a gift from Heaven...There is a rainbow of hope at the end of every storm. Congrats Daddy!" I met him out at the cemetery at our baby's grave and gave it to him. I have it on video! We told our parents with onesies, one was for a late Mother's Day gift and the other for my Dad's belated birthday, something along the lines of the gift being worth the wait.
3. We found out on what would be a week before our angel's first birthday. We had already planned to have family and friends at the cemetery to release balloons for him so the timing was perfect. Everyone gathered in a circle around us and my DH made a speech thanking everyone for coming and said we had one last balloon to release, it had "Baby #2 coming in February" written on it and everyone cheered as we let it go. We had a photographer there so we have pictures of the day. It was so special!

ShePersisted · May 2014

OMG @Missy0483‌ your story on how you told your DH and shared the news gave me goose bumps.

Missy0483 · May 2014

Hg45 said:
OMG @Missy0483‌ your story on how you told your DH and shared the news gave me goose bumps.

It just all kinda fell into place. The video is funny too, because I wrote "SURPRISE" on the envelope and DH told me I spelled it wrong haha

JessWhatINeeded · May 2014

I found out I was KU in June. I had a work trip to Florida and felt sick on the plane. Still felt sick the day after I got home and my period was 3 days late. I POAS the next morning. I was shaking so much I barely got any on it, but it was a positive. So were the next 2 I took.

Since this was unplanned I wasn't sure how to tell my BF. I ended up just buying another test, going over to his house, and handing him the box. When he asked if I thought I was pregnant, I said yes, according to the other 3 tests I've already taken.

It was the day after Father's Day. I wish I'd have gone with my gut and tested a day earlier.

inluv4life2 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?. I had an early loss in April and planned to wait 2 cycles before trying again. We had been ttc for a few months and I'd been charting for even longer so I thought I had it down. Anyway, I was walking from one building to another at work, felt nauseous and puked in the bushes. I told my boss I had food poisoning and went home. I couldn't stopping wondering so I POAS and it was positive! I couldn't believe it!

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family? I left the stick on the counter by his bathroom sink. He came up to get ready for bed and saw it. (I was already in bed because of aforementioned puking). He was thrilled!
3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories? For my first kiddo, DH and I decided we would start trying in 2009. DD was conceived before sun up on Jan 1, 2009. When I found out, I was heading out of town but stopped at DH school, waited for the passing period and ran to his classroom and told him. His response?? I thought you said it would take 6 months!!!! Ha!

ETA duh! I forgot to put how we told DD about LO. It was July and she spent the night with GPs so DH and I could go out for our anniversary. When we picked her up the next morning, we told DH's parents we had a special gift for DD and asked if they'd video us giving it to her. We said, no matter her reaction keep videoing! Then we gave her a big sister book and shirt and explained she was going to be a big sis. She kept raising my shirt to see the baby. It was so cute! So glad we have that moment on video And I love the audio of DH parents gasping with surprise since they had no idea either. So fun!

lihau88 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?

A week after our wedding we were flying home and I thought I felt my period start, but I was wrong. A week later I still hadn't gotten it yet. I was almost two weeks late when I decided to take a test. The women in my family struggled to conceive and so I thought that would be the case for me as well. Because of this, we weren't actively trying, but I had stopped the birth control in April. On my way home from work one day I stopped to get a couple tests. I took it the next morning when my DH came home from work.

I swear it said "pregnant" almost immediately. It was crazy fast. So I took another and the same thing happened. Then I had a blood test taken the next day to confirm.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family? DH was with me and his reaction was, "I thought you said we had time?!?!?!" LoL!

Because we live far, I told my family over the phone. Ironically, everyone was at my parents house when I called as they were throwing a baby shower for a family friend. With DH's dad, we sent him a pic of the ultrasound.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?
We were both so happy to get the news but DH couldn't stop saying, "I thought you said we'd have time?!?!" Oopsie!!

BioGirl21 · May 2014

1. We had been trying for a year and a half. In April we did Clomid but decided to skip May because MH was starting a new job and we were just super busy. We went to a friend's wedding May 11. We were planning on driving back home after the wedding but got super drunk so we stayed in a hotel. That was the only time we had sex the whole month. 2 weeks later, I was planning on drinking again and çeven though I always got negatives, I always tested before drinking. Sure enough, this time it was positive! I was beyond shocked and spent an hour crying and staring at the test.

2. MH was already at work when I tested an I wouldn't see him til late that night because I had to close at work. So the next day, a Saturday, I told him I had something to show him and took another test to bring into the bedroom. He told me he had no idea what he was looking at, lol.
For family, we had frames engraved to say "grandma" and "grandpa" and "great grandparents". I didn't have an ultrasound yet, so I wrote "baby last name, due to arrive 2/2/14" and we gave them all the frames when I was 8 weeks.

3. I actually told the internet before telling MH... Lol, I just couldn't keep it in! I also told a coworker the second I got to work. She was putting away some bananas and I walked up to her and whispered "I think I'm pregnant!" I had talked to and cried to her about our struggles getting pregnant and she was beyond excited for us.

cattuccino · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
I didn't find out until June, and I was a couple days late. I had gone off BC a few months prior but was still never late, so POAS. Then another. And a couple more for good measure the next day.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?
I was afraid to tell DH. He had said we should start TTC and we agreed to stop BC but we weren't actively trying yet, figured it would take a few cycles to regulate. I wasn't sure if he thought it would take longer too and not be as ready...but he was totally ecstatic.

I gave him the first test I peed on. He kept saying "what does two lines mean?!" So than I handed him a digital one and he just stared at it, then drops it and looks at me and was all "WE'RE HAVING A BABY?!" With a big shocked grin and the hugged me

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant?
We kept it fairly low key until the first trimester was over. Things were still winding down from our wedding (May 11) and it felt like too much excitement in a short period of time. But I kind of accidentally let it slip to my parents before We intended to tell them. I was over and my nieces were there and being rambunctious and my dad was joking "you sure you want one of these?" And I think he said something along the lines of "you don't have to" or something because I just said "too late" and waited to see my parents process what I was saying. I think my mom almost wet herself in excitement.

bb90 · May 2014

1. I didn't finduntil June. It was our 2nd anniversary. We hadn't really been trying it was more when it happens it happens and I hadn't missed my period yet, but just felt the need to take a test.

2. I put the test in with his anniversary gift, which I knew if he saw it he'd open when he got done with PT. (He can't resist a present). Then I went to work.

3. We went out with some friends we hadn't known very long and they kept talking about kids and if they wanted them or not and when. I worked into conversation that I was pregnant, and they were like oh wow congrats! I was wondering why you weren't drinking I thought you were just stuck up.

akakk114 · May 2014

1. We did our FET on May 31. June 10 I went for my first blood test. The nurse who I saw for all of my appointments called and left me a message at work.
2. I was so excited I actually told my boss right away (he & his wife were a huge support system during our IVF cycles). I jetted from work that day called my mom on the way, to the mall and made DH a build a bear and used a shirt that said "dad you rock." I rushed to get home before him and put all of our bears together (his that I made for our first valentines day, mine that he used to propose by tying her hands together with her holding the ring, and our new baby bear) so he saw them as soon as he walked in. His first reaction was "what are our bears doing out?" And then he read the shirt in the third bear!
3. We got my dad a grandpa Father's Day card. He was so confused until he got to the end where we had written that he'd be a grandpa in F14. It was extra special since we had just buried my grandma, his mom the day before. MIL we also told in a card but not until 11w, that was a congratulations grandma one. Our FB announcement I took a picture of our bears and added captions.

southerngal07 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
I actually POAS on a Monday when I knew my period should've started. It was negative, and even though it was still a little early I figured it wasn't going to happen that month. Fast forward to Friday, still no period, POAS just to see, and there was that second line!

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?
I got my bfp the Friday before Father's Day, so I went out and got DH a Father's Day card. I left it on the table for him to find when he got home from work. We waited a few weeks to tell anyone else. We were at my parents house talking about the trip to paris my mom, sister, and I had planned for the end of July. My sister had just booked a champagne tasting, so I said "well I guess it'll just be you and sis doing the tasting because I can't." My mom started crying. My dad was confused, so my DH explained it to him, at which point he started crying.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?
I went to visit my best friend right after I found out. She had a six week old baby. She and her H picked me up from the airport, and when I got in the car her H points to their baby and says "So when are you and DH gonna have one?" I just said "Well..." and my BFF started squealing.

littlepig2 · May 2014

1. I found out the Friday before Father's Day. I had been really late but because PCOS, I didn't think anything of it. the nurse at the fertility office called and I thought she was calling to tell me to come in so we could force start my cycle and start a round of Clomid. I was standing in the hallway at work and she said "umm... honey, you're pregnant!!". she sounded so excited and I was so completely shocked. I was like, "I... I am? but... I am? how did this happen? I mean I know how... oh my gosh, I am??" hahah my brain could not function. I hope I never forget the sound of the nurses voice when she told me!

2. I told DH that afternoon when he got home from work. that 3 hour wait was the longest if my whole entire life. I wanted to see a pink line to make it more real so I POAS and just stared at the two pink lines forever. then I just wrapped up the test and gave it to him when he got home and said it was a Father's Day present from the pets. I wanted to do something cute for Father's Day but I was so excited that I couldn't even think straight, so that's the best he got haha.

3. we told our families at their Father's Day parties by wrapping up a picture of the pregnancy test in a frame that had something to do with Grandpop or grandchildren. my dad's reaction is on video and it was the best!!

djtippietoes · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
I found out in June. We had just gotten back from a trip to Colorado. My period was due like the day we got back.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?
I just called my H into the bathroom. And called my family on the phone. I was PgAL so I was more nervous than anything.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?
I had lost my driver's license (like physically lost it, not had it taken away) and had to go the DMV to get a replacement. I took the test when I got home. So I always remember that the picture on my license was taken the same day as I found out.

JackieP1023 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO? We had taken a short weekend trip for our 2nd anniversary. It just happened to fall during my fertile week (I was on letrozole-we had been trying about a year). I decided to skip the temping and OPK's just for the month. I still tested when I was supposed to, and got the faintest of lines. I honestly don't remember how I told DH... The beginning of the pregnancy is fairly blurry to me, since I had a 2nd tri loss last time, I refused to let myself believe/get excited.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family? Our families, we just told them outright. Everyone knew our situation-that we were getting help TTC from a RE. On FB, we posted a photo of MH holding a sign up to our daughter's headstone. The sign said 'I'm going to be a BIG sister--Baby P expected early 2014!'

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories? Honestly, I remember more about the early parts of our first pregnancy (in 2010-2011) than this last one. All because in my brain, I blocked alot of it out. Didn't want to get too excited or attached, just in case. Our celebration was actually around 21-22 weeks when we had a 'gender reveal' party, as we were beyond our point of loss at that point.

Noethola · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO? We found out in June as well. I had spotting and period like discharge at the end of may (when it was due). It lasted several days so I thought it was a light period. I was sad that another month was going to pass us by, but I decided to test before Fathers Day. It was before I left for work, and I freaked out and cried all the way in. I was sure we were going to lose it, since I had the spotting.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family? I gave DH an early Father's Day card. He didnt want to open it before FD, but I told him he needed to. I said something along the lines of what a great dad he was, and was he ready to be the father of 2 already? He cried and I cried, and we hugged each other. Then I told him my fears as well, and we cried again.

I told our families after we had a dr's appointment at 5w. Told those in person who were nearby and called the others. With our daughter, we had waited, but we needed all the prayer and support we could gather.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories? I went into the Dr to get blood drawn to confirm the pregnancy and basically asked them what to do when I miscarried (because I was in the mental state that it would happen). I think I was afraid to invest emotionally, even though we really wanted this baby. Though my home test showed positive, their urine test came back negative. So they took the blood and called me the next day to say "Yes, you are very early pregnant."

1linedrawing · May 2014

Peed on a stick. Early morning. The day before Father's Day.
Told my husband by waking him up and saying "babe, look! Look at it! Do you see it!?! Two lines! There's two!"
He kept saying, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"
I told him it's a positive and he hugged me and smiled, and then said, "did you just pee on that in then come put it in my face?"
Lol.

Told the in laws with books they fill in about their lives, and a woodworking for kids furniture book for FIL.

Told my mom with a copy of "I will love you forever". She actually had a dream I was pregnant the morning I told her.
My dad got a "this guy's gonna be a grandpa" shirt. I also got an "uncle" one for my little brother.

We announced it on FB with the painting in my siggy- no caption I just tagged my H.

I remember seeing a person go by with a dozen pink balloons the day of my first ultrasound. It was stuck in my head since that day that LO was a girl- and she is!

ndtrojan · May 2014

1- This is slightly embarrassing for how naive I was! I didn't find out until into July. DH and I decided to try, so I stopped my bc that caused me to have no period. My dr said we could get pregnant right away theoretically, but everything I had read online said that it would take a couple months for my cycle to come back. Thus, I wasn't suspicious when I didn't get a period a month after stopping. I didn't even think I was pregnant until I started puking. By that point, was so pregnant apparently I sucked the ink out of the control lines of the test so they seemed defective. I finally had to get a digital test. My BFF, after finding out, now says she is terrified looking back at college for me, because I must be the luckiest b alive to be that fertile and not had anything happen considering I wasn't on bc for most of that time.

2. DH was sitting outside the bathroom, so he knew righ away. We planned to wait to tell family, but we had to go to DH's cousins birthday dinner that was all you can drink, he drank for me, got trashed, and decided to go partying with the fam (because too drunk to make the wise decision) even though I was nauseous all evening. After he left with them, I was angry texting him, so he told them. His mom was PISSED (she thinks she's too young to be a grandma), so I'm glad I wasn't there for that. I told my family a couple weeks later during evening prayer, sticking it in at the end and waiting for everyone's reactions. They were super excited!

3. I honestly enjoyed somewhat DH's family ragging on MIL about her not wanting to become a grandmother yet. "You mean your son graduated from college, bought a house, started a career, got married, and then decided to have a baby? How could he?!?" Hehe

ndtrojan · May 2014

car seat said:

ndcarney said:

My BFF, after finding out, now says she is terrified looking back at college for me, because I must be the luckiest b alive to be that fertile and not had anything happen considering I wasn't on bc for most of that time.

Well yes, you're lucky that you didn't get pregnant when you weren't using birth control if you didn't want to be pregnant, but getting pregnant while not on the pill doesn't make you especially fertile.

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Haha, yes I realize that. And I just wasn't on the pill, I always used condoms..I realized I left that unclear.

1linedrawing · May 2014

car seat said:

1linedrawing said:

Peed on a stick. Early morning. The day before Father's Day.
Told my husband by waking him up and saying "babe, look! Look at it! Do you see it!?! Two lines! There's two!"
He kept saying, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"
I told him it's a positive and he hugged me and smiled, and then said, "did you just pee on that in then come put it in my face?"
Lol.

Told the in laws with books they fill in about their lives, and a woodworking for kids furniture book for FIL.

Told my mom with a copy of "I will love you forever". She actually had a dream I was pregnant the morning I told her.
My dad got a "this guy's gonna be a grandpa" shirt. I also got an "uncle" one for my little brother.

We announced it on FB with the painting in my siggy- no caption I just tagged my H.

I remember seeing a person go by with a dozen pink balloons the day of my first ultrasound. It was stuck in my head since that day that LO was a girl- and she is!

I love that painting. You're so talented. Do you have a shop or anything?

@car seat‌ YGPM

Meghan14 · May 2014

I was just thinking about this last night as I went to bed. How different can life get in a year? May 2013 was the WORST month of my life. After 2 years TTC, i was sure it was never going to happen. I spent mother's day in tears on the couch, rudely blew-off a 1st birthday party, and had to leave a BBQ early because we were the only ones over 30 without kids.

We had been trying forever. May was our last chance. (It was the last month my Dr was going to do clomid and IUI. She was going to refer us to a specialist for IVF. We had already decided if we needed a specialist it was time to look into adoption).

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?

I was a whole 12 hours late and figured what the hell. I was expecting another negative test, but there was the faintest blue line. So light, I was sure it was in my head and ran to Target to by a digital test. I wouldn't even let myself look at baby stuff because I was sure the line wasn't there and I was nuts. The digital test confirm it!
2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?

I ran BACK to target and bought baseball pacifiers to wrap up for DH. I also wrap a onsie that I had as a leftover from a onsie bouquet I had made. (in fact LO is in it right now. It's actually too small but I needed him to wear it one last time because it means so much to me.).

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?

BB0214 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
I was only 2 days late, so I POAS. I was a few days late the month before and had gotten a BFN. So I wasn't expecting a BFP. I had taken the Tuesday off after Memorial Day weekend, so I was by myself when I POAS. I got a faint positive, but it was more than I had gotten before. I bought a Clearblue easy digital test and took it right before DH got home. Sure enough, it said I was pregnant.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?

I left the positive pregnancy test on the bathroom sink to see if DH would notice it when he got home from work. He didn't say anything when he saw it. He gave me a big kiss and started crying.

We told our families on Father's Day when I was about 7 weeks. We posed everyone for a family picture, and just before DH snapped the picture I shouted, "I'm pregnant!" It was awesome to get pictures of everyone's reactions.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?
None more than I already shared.

MrsL32 · May 2014

1. I was a few days late and POAS, then got in the shower. I checked a few minutes later not expecting anything exciting (we dealt with IF when TTC DS1, and had been TTC this time for 6 months), and saw the 2 lines. I rushed through the rest of my shower than ran to our bed with the stick and jumped on DH saying do you see it?! 2 lines, 2 lines!!!!

2. We told our ILs by going over to their house with DS wearing a 'best bro ever' shirt. NEITHER of them picked up on it. We had to explicitly ask them to read his shirt. Then, my MIL STILL didn't get it, she said she thought it was some kind of slang that she didn't understand. Yeah. We had DS wear the shirt when skyping with my parents, at least they got it right away!!

3. I'm blanking on this one...

kak808 · May 2014

Backstory:

My husband and I were living in the UK and had decided that we did not want to have children there. I went so far as to say that I didn't even want to get pregnant there because moving home while KU would be a bitch. Also, I have a genetic condition that runs in the family that could have made it dangerous and/or difficult for me to get pregnant, so I wanted that evaluated first. I'd been trying for a while to see a genetic specialist to get some testing done but wait times were incredibly long both in the UK and in the US. I finally got an appointment with a dr in the UK at the end of May and he determined that getting pregnant should be safe for me. We were planning to move home at the end of August so after the appt my husband was like "no more condoms!" because man. I was like "umm, I don't want to get pregnant" and he said it would surely take forever because of my medical issues. We had unprotected sex twice and then he went back to the US for a few weeks.

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?

I'd just been on a girls' weekend and fully expected to get my period while there, but did not. I was hosting a huge conference at work that week and on the Tuesday I was a little stressed out that I still hadn't gotten my period, so I went and bought a test just to ease my mind and give me one less thing to stress about. I took the test alone in my bathroom in the afternoon. And then it was positive! I was SO shocked. So then I took all the others

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?

I didn't want to tell my husband via Skype, so I waited a few more days for him to come home. He had his birthday while he was gone, so I wrapped the stick up in a box with a bunch of styrofoam peanuts. He was fully expecting me to give him this toy car that he wanted and when he saw the test instead amongst the peanuts, he was like "where's the car??????" He was pretty freaked out, but also ecstatic -- he'd always wanted kids, whereas I was always the one throwing up roadblocks.

We didn't want to tell our families until we were a bit farther along, so we waited and told them the night we moved back home at 11 weeks.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?

We told our families at a restaurant straight from the airport. My husband decided that he'd ask for a Sprite "for the baby" when we ordered drinks. However, it was super loud in the restaurant so he said it and no one really heard so he kind of yelled it again, but still no one got what he said, so he was like "SHE WILL HAVE A SPRITE BECAUSE SHE'S PREGNANT!!!!!" Not the best reveal in the end

Metreky21 · May 2014

1. We did IVF and it was the Monday after my transfer. I had gone in that morning to give a blood sample so I knew I was going to get a phone call that day to tell me I either was or wasn't. I was starting a new project that day at work so I had a new boss and I was so worried she was going to think I was a crazy person for how nervous I was acting waiting for that call! Finally got it and she told me I was pregnant! I was so excited to call DH that I was like "thank you!" And hung up. So rude! :-S

2. I called DH right away and when I told him he was just silent. He was way more skeptical that it would work than I was and I think he didn't really let himself get excited until the first trimester was over. Then I called my brother and we told DHs parents and grandma at 4 weeks. We waited till 2nd tri to tell everyone else.

3. I had been sure all through IVF that it was going to work. My parents has both passed away in 2008 and 2011. I had been through so much I just felt like I was due for some goodness in my life. And I felt like they were up there watching over us and guiding LO to existence. I just wish they could have been around to be grandparents. They would have been great at it.

Mommyof42014 · May 2014

1. I found out I was pregnant while we were camping. I had started spotting which was normal for me to spot a day or so before my period started, but after 3 or 4 days I started thinking something was wrong. So I had him call his doctor, because he had just had a vasectomy at the beginning of March to find out the results of his sperm count. They then told him he still had a few sperm left and needed to be retested. He had turned his specimen in a few weeks before then after they never called we stupidly assumed that meant he didn't need to be retested. After that phone call I knew I was pregnant and the next day we drove to town and got test which came out positive.

2. I handed him the test. It was the day before Father's Day. So I guess he got a huge surprise.

3. Nothing really funny. It was an emotional time for both of us. I cried a bunch and it took a while for us to except that we were going to have a baby. The thought of adoption and abortion never crossed our minds. We knew it was going to be hard work as he just turned 50 (he is much older then me) and I have 3 small children already, but we love the little guy although he wasn't expected. Colton's middle name is Kaw because we found out I was pregnant on Kaw lake. I didn't like it, but it meant a lot to my boyfriend so I went with it, and its kind of growing on me now. We are taking him camping at Kaw lake in June and we will take a picture of him by the Kaw lake sign.

That was probably a lot of rambling sorry!

queeniecrayon · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?
I took a cheapie on a Tuesday night after random spotting at work--it was a squinter so I didn't say anything and picked up a pack of FRER after jury duty. It was positive. I was shocked. I had only 1 period after my 2nd D&c in March at 51 days so I was expecting another 41 day cycle (just like after my first d&c in September). I guess relaxing, alcohol, and porn were the ticket to a take home baby...

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?
I walked out of the bathroom and asked DH if he wanted to go up to the pharmacy with me to drop my progesterone script off.
And we officially cannot remember how we told our families....after 2 back to back losses before this one they all blurred together

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?
She was a surprise, I didn't think it was going to happen that cycle. It had taken my body almost 5 months to reset the first time so I was expecting a similar cycle. I was a worried mess from the get go, I cried a lot. I still get emotional when I think back to taking that test...

dgs7585 · May 2014

Backstory....DH and I had 5 years of unexplained infertility so when I got pregnant in 2012, we thought it was our only chance at a child since I was closing in on 40. Then bam, I got pregnant again 6 months after our "miracle" child was born.

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?

We came home from visiting family in Texas and I just felt off. I'd only had 2 periods since my last pregnancy. The next morning I POAS and voila...two lines.

2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?

I cried and it wasn't a happy cry at first. I took the test to show my husband who was playing games on the computer and just handed it to him. He got this big smile and tears were rolling down my face. The first thing I said was "we haven't even finished paying for the first one yet". When we told his family, all his mom said was "another one?" She's got 6 other grandkids. We were taken aback by her response, but she did finally warm up to the idea of another grandkid. My mother was so excited. I'm an only child so I was her only chance for grandkids.

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?

My OB literally came in to my 1st appointment laughing. She couldn't believe I was back so soon. It was a good laugh as we had been trying so hard for so many years to have a kid and then I had 2 kids 14 months apart.

Mommyof42014 · May 2014

I kind of feel like a jerk for posting my story, because I wasn't happy about being pregnant and so many of you tried for so long to get pregnant. Just wanted to say sorry if it offended anyone I honestly didn't mean to if I did. And I love my baby now and am glad things happened the way they did.

Aaw332 · May 2014

1. I was feeling pretty crampy but figured it was because I was supposed to be getting my period. I had gone off birth control in April but never expected I'd get pregnant so quickly. After days of cramps and still no period my husband suggested I POAS. I was too nervous to look at it first so I made him. At first he said it was negative, but then after a few minutes of staring at it he said he wasn't sure. When I finally looked at it there was the faintest little line. So naturally, over the next few days I took like 4 more tests. The line was there every time

2. We decided not to tell anyone until after my first OB appointment, which happened to be on my birthday. So when everyone called to wish me a happy birthday I told them the news 3. It didn't seem all that funny at the time, but I laugh about it now.... I passed out at the OB office at my first appointment when they drew my blood. My husband warned them I was a faint risk which completely embarrassed me so I kept insisting I was fine. But after the first two vials everything went black. I woke up in a complete sweat with someone holding smelling salts to my nose. I was mortified. And to make matters worse, I'm a nurse. I draw blood all the time. You'd think I'd be fine... but no

ShePersisted · May 2014

Mommyof42014 said:
I kind of feel like a jerk for posting my story, because I wasn't happy about being pregnant and so many of you tried for so long to get pregnant. Just wanted to say sorry if it offended anyone I honestly didn't mean to if I did. And I love my baby now and am glad things happened the way they did.

A lot of pregnancies come as a surprise. I think the key is wether it is a wanted or not once the baby is here and you love him/her with all your heart then that's all that matters. And it looks like you do :-)

PS: I have known many who were not happy they were pregnant but once they had their babies they would not have it any other way.

Mommyof42014 · May 2014

Thank you for making me feel better. A big part of the reason I lurked for so long was because I felt so guilty that I didn't want to be pregnant. Definitely over that now. Can't imagine not having that little cutie here with me. And all of his siblings love him. My boyfriend has two older children. We let his daughter take him one weekend. Was a little hard to be away from him but she really enjoyed having him. When she found out I was pregnant she was not happy but I think she is over that now that he is here.

ramfan05 · May 2014

I'm super late to the party, but I've enjoyed reading this thread when I could today (it's been a crazy day!) and I still want to play

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO?

We started trying last spring (April/May). We went on vacation the second week of June and I knew that when we got home I could take a test (I was temping and charting, so I knew my DPO and all that good stuff). When we got home, I tested and it was negative. I was okay with it, it was our first cycle trying. On Father's Day, my period still hadn't started, so I decided to test again. Still negative. This time, I was a little bummed. I'd been getting my hopes up since my period hadn't started yet. A few days later, still no AF, so I tested one more time. DH waited with me. We went in to look at it and I got really upset because it was still negative. I picked it up and said something about how could it still be negative when I was so many DPO (I think I was 17 or 18 DPO at that point) and I noticed the faintest of faint lines.
2. How did you tell your SO? Or family?

Well, DH was with me when I found out. When I saw the faint line, I kept looking at the test and making him look at the test to confirm that we did, indeed, see the extremely faint line

We ended up telling our families with a big brother t-shirt we made for DS, which was cute. He was excited to be involved in telling everyone about his baby in mommy's tummy

3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?

Telling DS was one of the most special times of my pregnancy. He was two at the time, so I know he didn't fully understand everything that was happening, but he always knew that there was a baby growing in my tummy. As I went through my pregnancy, and DS got older, he got more excited about the baby who was coming. Now he is the best big brother and loves his little sister more than anything in the world. I was so worried about how our lives would change with the addition of another little one (even though we always knew we wanted 2), and it's been such a seamless transition. It's like she's always been a part of our lives, and we just love that little girl so much!

emar129 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO? I was just feeling out of it and weird. My period wasn't more than a day late...normal for me anyway. I got a box of three tests. Took one and it was negative. A week later, still no period. I took another. Positive. I was shocked and started shaking. I had to go to work too. POAS again at work. Still positive! Told my boss I needed to leave.
2. How did you tell your SO? Or family? I texted SO and said we needed to talk. He thought it was a bad thing. He ended up being so excited. My family found out within a few days.
3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories? I have the picture of my bfp! That's about it

courtls22 · May 2014

1.) We got married on May 18th, 2013 and during the beginning of our engagement I was positive that I wanted to try to have a baby immediately. I later decided I wanted to get healthy before we started a family because I had some bad eating habits and didn't exercise. My DH and I started a couch to 5k program that our town was doing and on the 2nd day of it, I just felt off. I was 3 days late and that wasn't that abnormal for me but I just had this feeling I should buy pregnancy tests just in case. 2.) My DH and I went in to check the test at the same time and it was definitely 2 pink lines. I was irrationally upset at first because I was still in the process of "getting healthy" but that only lasted about 5 minutes because I've wanted to be a mom my whole life. My DH was ecstatic from the get-go. We just told our family, didn't do anything special. We did make a cute announcement pic for facebook. 3.) I work at a daycare and it was SO hard to keep it a secret from my coworkers when our job literally revolves around kids. I know it would have been impossible to keep it off my mind anyway but when they are surrounding you all day every day, it was hard. Also, I found out on a Sunday and that Monday one of my preschoolers gave me a hug and rubbed my belly and all I was thinking was "everyone knows even him!" So ridiculous.

Lemon81 · May 2014

1. How did you find out you were expecting LO? 2. How did you tell your SO? Or family? 3. Anything specific you want to share from that time once you found out you were pregnant? Any funny/ sentimental stories?

1. I was on a cycle of Clomid. I went for my mid-cycle monitoring and the doctor said I was not responding at all to clomid. I was really sad because I was sure that it was going to work. I left the doctor's office really down, but the doctor wanted to try another round before we tried something else. Fast forward three weeks... I was getting ready to do provera, then start my new clomid cycle, but the doctor always wanted me to take a pregnancy test before I started the meds again, so I took it, knowing it was going to be negative. To my extreme surprise, it was positive!

2. I took the pregnancy test outside where DH was working on a tractor. Then I realized I was waving something I just peed on in his face.

3. The funniest thing I have is when I called the doctor the next morning to schedule things, she was shocked too. Her response was "really?!" Bloodwork later that day confirmed it.

kak808 · May 2014

courtls22 said:
1.) We got married on May 18th, 2013 and during the beginning of our engagement I was positive that I wanted to try to have a baby immediately. I later decided I wanted to get healthy before we started a family because I had some bad eating habits and didn't exercise. My DH and I started a couch to 5k program that our town was doing and on the 2nd day of it, I just felt off. I was 3 days late and that wasn't that abnormal for me but I just had this feeling I should buy pregnancy tests

I was also doing couch to 5k! I think I was on week 2 or 3? That was sure abandoned quickly!

Soap1 · May 2014

I was about 11 DPO, but I didn't take a test because we were having a Memorial Day BBQ that day and I wanted to have a few beers. (I am of the opinion that 2-3 beers at 11dpo will have absolutely no effect on a developing zygote) So I waited until 12 dpo and sure enough, there was the positive pregnancy test!

I told DH with some Big Brother t-shirts that I bought for the older boys, and his reaction was, "Oh shit..." We were trying, but it happened a little faster than we expected!

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