GTKY: Your BFP story

LuLiLaEv · June 2017

So I'm sure we shared these somewhat in the very beginning, but now that we "know" each other and we're nearing the end, lets reminisce!

How did you find out? Did you wait for your missed period or test early? Did you know or was it a shock?
Did you tell your SO/kids a fun way? Etc!

PurplePoppy424 · June 2017

1. How did you find out? We were trying and I wasn't having any AF symptoms, which is very abnormal for me. I took a test and sure enough, two lines showed up. I took another one for safe measure.

2. Did you wait for your missed period or test early? I waited until the day AF was supposed to show up according to my tracker.

3. Did you know or was it a shock? Even though we were trying, it still came as a shock because it happened so fast and there was literally only one time that could have caused it that month. I truly wasn't expecting it to happen that month.

4. Did you tell your SO/kids in a fun way? The morning I found out, I went to "run some errands." While I was out, I swung by a couple stores and picked up a "big sister" sweatshirt for DD. She was only 2 and a half at the time, so she didn't know what it said. I put the tests in a little gift card holder and I had DD give DH the shirt and tests. DH and I both cried and told DD what was going on. If I had it to do over again, I'd wait to tell DD until we had everything confirmed a little more, but thankfully everything worked out.

MamaRN13 · June 2017

This is fun @LuLiLaEv! Love hearing others stories.

*TW* PGAL*
I had just had a D&C early Aug for a MC and got one AF exactly 28 days after my surgery. I have never been regular, so by the time the end of Oct rolled around and I hadn't gotten another AF I began to get suspicious. I had ZERO symptoms but there it was... two lines. Because of our history of loss I wasn't particularly excited or hopeful and just sent DH a text pic of the year that said "here we go again..." to which he responded "hmmmm". Pretty uneventful

We waited until we knew if this LO was a big or girl until telling DS. We got him a Big Brother shirt and a Little Sister onesie for her. It was that moment the pregnancy felt real and we really felt like we could celebrate it!

satsumasandlemons · June 2017

Fun! I'll play:

How did you find out? Did you wait for your missed period or test early?
I was temping and started testing early because I have no will power - i tested on cd 7 which was Election Day, woke up crying on cd8 when the reality of trump in office was sinking in, and at some point later on that night took a test just for the hell of it and saw the faintest faintest line that could easily be an evap line. The next day, cd9, i tested and it was a clear positive.

Did you know or was it a shock?
because I had been temping, it wasn't a shock like, what do you mean I'm pregnant?? But more like - whoa, we did it.

Did you tell your SO/kids a fun way? Etc!
im seriously blanking out. I know I told her after we found out the sex of the baby at around 11 weeks or so and I know I taped it and it was in the car but beyond that, I'm drawing a blank. I need to look for that clip when I'm on maternity leave

greenbean-2 · June 2017

We had been trying for a little while. Since I'm in my mid-thirties, and didn't want to wait too long to seek help if we had a problem, when I say trying I mean trying - ovulation test strips, tracking basal body temperature, etc. I knew we had timed things well in early November, but I wasn't feeling too optimistic.

One Saturday, a few days before my period was due, I just felt... funny. Nothing I could put my finger on, but I just felt different. Since I had a whole pack of cheap wondfo pregnancy tests that had come with the ovulations strips, I decided that I would take a test the next morning. On Sunday I woke up early. While DH was still asleep, I got up and took a test. For this kind of test, you have to wait 5 minutes. I stared at the test for a couple minutes, didn't see anything happening, and just sat in the bathroom (probably checking email) for the rest of the 5 minutes. When the time was up I picked up the test strip and almost fell over when I saw the faintest pink line. I told DH as soon as I got back to bed.

Since we found out so so early (less than 4 weeks since LMP) I spent the first few weeks just waiting for the other shoe to drop and not believing that it was real. But, here we are, in the final countdown! Pregnancy has been 1000x harder than I ever expected, but I'm so grateful for all of it.

lanie1000 · June 2017

It was a bit strange. We'd only had unprotected sex once that month, but I guess I must've felt different somehow because I tested very early. Like the package said 5 days before your expected period so that's when I first tried. I saw the faintest line imaginable and after googling a million times, decided it was probably just an evaporation line. Then on the morning of my expected period something told me to use the second test in the package and I definitely saw a thin pink line appear.

I could hardly focus at work and left a little early to pick up one of those tests that just says "pregnant" or "not pregnant" and that's how I knew for sure.

I went the predictable, cheesy route and wrapped both tests in a box like a present for DH that night. I was so excited until he started opening it and couldn't figure out what was inside. I just told him to read what the sticks said and then he got it and gave me a big smile and a bigger hug.

I havent had the easiest pregnancy, but I could not be happier about this little girl growing inside of me!

mrsla0512 · June 2017

I wasn't on BC, we weren't trying to prevent it tho. I was 10 days late and thought stress was causing my period to delay bc it's happened before. I was also taking Plexus and has no pregnancy symptoms at all.

I called my sister on my lunch break, and POAS. It was purple in 2 seconds and I cried. She told me to shut up and calm down a few times bc she had something to tell me. That something was she was pregnant too. Wellllll, alright then. I sent DH a picture and that was that.

A few weeks later I asked the kids if they wanted to have a baby. DD begged for a baby sister and DS said no, I baby.

lph4248 · June 2017

I like this thread idea! I credit the HSG test. It didn't reveal any problems, but I heard anecdotal stories of it helping with fertility by clearing out mild blockages just due to the dye itself going through the system. (Our fertility doctor later told us there was some evidence of that being the case.) I took the digital test maybe 12 days after I ovulated and was surprised to see a very faint second pink line after so many months of negative tests! It was first thing in the morning and I'm pretty sure I even still had my night guard in when I went to get DH's attention. He didn't realize that such a faint line counted, so he kept asking, "Are you sure that's a positive???" And I was like, "You bet your butt it is!"

Edit: removed accidental tag

mamadcb · June 2017

This is fun to read and remember!

We decided to try for baby #2 on Oct 9, so that was the first day I didn't take the mini pill I had been on. I tested too early, a few days before my period was due, and of course it was negative. Then I got a bloody nose (which I often do before my period) and concluded that I probably was not pregnant.

I tested again the day before my period was due and brought the test back to bed with me where DH was too. I looked at it after a few minutes and was bummed (but not surprised) to see that it was negative... but I could kind of see where a line would be if there were one. DH couldn't see it, even when I held it up to the previous (negative) test for comparison. Even I wasn't convinced, but I was becoming optimistic. I took another test after we napped and then forgot about it in the bustle of getting out the door. Came home and looked-- definitely positive! DH still didn't buy it-- he could barely see a line and he was waiting for something very convincing. This was Saturday the 29th. I asked when he would believe that it was positive and he said Wednesday. Ha ha! I laughed at how arbitrary that seemed and went straight to Walmart to pick up a pregnant/not pregnant test to convince him. It said pregnant, of course! So I didn't tell him in any special way. And DS was only 9 months at the time so told him right away too

LuLiLaEv · June 2017

We were trying for a couple months and nothing. I was still nursing DD and had just gotten my first PP period so I just figured it wasn't going to happen. Around that time we found out H got accepted to police academy to start in the spring so we both agreed it would be bad timing and that after my next period we would go back on birth control until he graduated. A couple days before my period was supposed to start my boobs started to hurt which never happens. I had a test left over from DD and figured I'd take one assuming it would be negative and I could go ahead and order my birth control pills. It was the faintest line so I told H I was going to the store to get another test. (So not cute or anything like I had done with DD) I went to the store and bought like 12 tests and pretty much peed on them all and every single one was positive. It was really fun telling our families this time around because they weren't expecting it at all!

mslynn2012 · June 2017

We were VERY lucky to get pregnant super easy with DS (honeymoon baby) and DD (had 1 period while BFing, then boom). With this LO it took us 7 months of hardcore trying (OPKs, temping, etc). I tested 7 days before my period (a Thursday), and thought I had a VERY faint line. Tested the next morning (FMU, Friday) and for sure had a very faint line. When DH got home from work I was going to show him the HPT, but he wanted celebrate his passing of a hardcore credentialing exam, so I waited until the next morning. Saturday morning I took yet another HPT (for good measure), and put DD in a "big sis" shirt I bought her. Around lunchtime I was pissed as he STILL hadn't noticed it! I asked him what her shirt said, and he finally saw it and it clicked!

not the way I intended it to go down, but yay us!

glitterfish-2 · June 2017

We were trying for about 10 months, so I had started to think it was never going to happen - so I was definitely shocked! And not ready, honestly! It was at the worst possible time, just a couple weeks before our first "big" vacation together, to New Orleans of all places!

We had already been to a urologist for DH, but his testing came back fine although he does have a varicocele. He got the all clear on October 6, which is also the day I started synthroid for Hashimoto's. The urologist recommended an OBGYN who would start IUI before the year mark because of my age, so I made an appointment with him for November. It just so happened that he was at the same practice as my last doctor that I would never go back to, so I didn't have to wait excessively long for a "new patient" appt.

Also, my FF tracking had been weird that month, like I thought I had already ovulated on CD 13, Oct 7, super early for me, but it would not give me crosshairs! And I kept getting positive OPKs. Then the day I did get crosshairs, CD 16, I was out of town on a work trip, although I had made sure to get one last time in the night before I left. And that is why I'm in July but my ticker has been in June since our second growth scan!

I definitely didn't feel any different on my trip, but I went to this gift shop I love, and I found a 'Big Sister" bandana for my dog, and I bought it "for someday."

I took the test after work on Friday, Oct 21, at what FF called DPO 11. I was shaking and was more terrified than anything! But I got up and put the bandana on the dog, and went and told DH with her.

Dcwtada · June 2017

@mslynn2012 I had a similiar experience- with my first two we got pregnant within the first full month of no BC, this one took almost 9 months.

DH was always against me taking tests, especially early he didn't want me to be disappointed. I had secretly bought a couple tests and been taking them. I went from definitely nothing to...is that a line or am I insane to..that is a line! I asked DH to pick up a test after work so I could take an official one and he refused because it was still too early. I took my last secret stash test the next morning and showed him. He was half asleep when I showed him and his reaction was not quite what I was hoping for but once he woke up (like an hour later) it was a different story

virginiaunicorn11 · June 2017

DS took 18 months of NTNC. This time we "pulled the goalie" twice but then decided we wanted to wait, and get settled into our new country before having a second kid. Ah well.

My stomach started growling uncontrollably during an important meeting (an early pregnancy sign for me that happened with DS, too). It was also Day 2 of a "hangover" that really shouldn't have been that bad/existed at all. I suddenly realized in the middle of this meeting what was up (and couldn't function the rest of the meeting).

I was out of town, so on the way home the next day, I bought a HPT. I told DH I was going to take it (we both work from home often). It was a faint plus sign, and we acted like idiots about what that meant (like we did with DS, actually. Denial ain't just a river!). So then we went to lunch, talked about it, and bought another HPT that would just say Pregnant or Not Pregnant (but in German, which was kind of fun/surreal). It confirmed, and we got really excited!

manillabar · June 2017

These are fun to read!

We were trying for sure (temping, opks, etc) but ran into some issues that actually led my gyn to suggest H seeing a urologist soon if nothing happened so we weren't very encouraged that we'd be able to get pregnant before seeing the urologist. I was a POAS junkie though, so I started testing at 10 days post ovulation and BFN. Then the next day I swore I saw the tiniest glimmer of a line on a wondfo and so I wasted my last digital (first response) and it was negative. I couldn't get the test out of my mind, though, so while I was out with H, I made us stop to get more tests. The following day I had to work early so I tested with another wondfo and it was still faint. I was afraid to take another digital so I waited until I came back that evening and did a wondfo and an FRER. H and I waited together in the living room until the time was up and then he raced to the bathroom and saw it first, so he actually told me that they were both positive! And then I did a digital as well just to be sure. ...and I may have tested obsessively for several days after that as well lol

tuxielove93 · June 2017

Ooh this is fun! I'm gonna tell the whole story, so there is a TLDR at the bottom. So I was supposed to get my period but for the couple of days before I just wasn't feeling it coming on like normal. My breasts would always swell and get really sensitive before my period, and that hadn't happened at all. But late/abnormally timed periods aren't all that weird for me (although they have gotten much more regular in the last two years) so I just assumed my period was late and moved on with life. I mentioned it to DH but he didn't think I was pregnant either, and we set the "test" date for 2 weeks after my missed period. We always waited to test because sometimes my periods would be off. We weren't trying, but we weren't not trying all that hard, so it was a technical possibility, but I felt completely fine, so we didn't really think I was. Plus, we weren't even home. We were up in the Boston area on a work trip. The day after I mentioned to him that my period was late he got a serious ear problem, and it totally changed our plans for the rest of the trip. He has holes in his ears, so ear infections are not something to mess around with him. It cut our trip short and we ended up being home for Sunday instead of staying out until Thursday. Which in retrospect was probably good, because it led to me testing. While we were still traveling, I totally started to have symptoms that I 100% did not even realize were pregnancy symptoms until after we got the BFP. I was in the grocery store and just could not stand the smell of the cheese and fish area, I was super tired and having a hard time driving for long stretches of time, I was having a hard time sucking my stomach in, and I was ravenously hungry. But none of that tipped me off. It was actually when I was bending over a tray table and my stomach just felt weird. I still can't describe it, but it felt like I just couldn't lean over properly, like there was something extra in the way. As soon as I felt that I just knew I was pregnant, but I was alone at my moms, so I had to finish talking to her before I could go home. It was killing me to stand there and finish what I was doing with her. All I could think about was getting home to get the test.
So I finally got home, and I ran to get DH and told him we had to get a test. And I guess I must have looked or sounded dead serious because he didn't argue with me. We drove to get a test, and came back with it, and the whole time he kept saying to me "I really don't think you are" and I was like "I know, but it just felt weird and I have to test". Well, I POAS and we went into the bedroom so we didn't stare the test down, and then when the timer went off he went in to check it. He came out trying to keep a straight face, and I was completely losing my mind like come on tell me! Finally his face broke into this huge smile and he held up the test and said "it's positive". I totally didn't believe him, so I grabbed the stick out of his hand to see it for myself, and it was a dark pink line. This was a week after my missed period. After that we sat down and started talking about what we were gonna do and how we felt, and we were both scared but also super excited. LO is possibly a honeymoon baby. We were in Italy at the beginning of October, and we aren't entirely sure if it was right at the end of our trip or right after we got home, but everyone seems to like the "honeymoon baby made in Italy" story, so we're probably just going to go with that

TLDR: How did you find out? Period was late by a week, but that didn't tip me off. It was bending over and my stomach just feeling off in a way that I still find hard to describe that made me think I was pregnant. Did you wait for your missed period or test early? Tested a week after my missed period. Did you know or was it a shock? We weren't trying and neither of us thought I was pregnant until I bent over that afternoon and demanded that we go get a test.
Did you tell your SO/kids a fun way? DH was there when I tested and this is our first baby, but we told our parents in a fun way. We tied a tag around our cats neck that said "guess what" on the outside and then on the inside it said "I'm the big sister". My mom thought we were getting a kitten, and MIL was just stunned into silence. When she finally got her voice back, she said "you're pregnant?" and we confirmed it, and then she went crazy with happiness and started crying.

squirttheturtle · June 2017

These are so fun!

TL:DR at the bottom.

DH and I started NTNP in Jan of 16. We got married in June and then I started temping, OPKing, etc. My cycles were 32-40 days so DH were DTD EOD for almost 3 weeks each month. We went on our honeymoon in early Sept and then SIL got married at the end of October. I was really hoping that we'd be pregnant by her wedding but AF showed up 2 days before her wedding.

The next cycle I was crazy about temping, and timing and DTD EOD. I O'd on CD 19 and our timing had been good but still felt like something was wrong.

When I went for my annual with my OB in early November, I mentioned that we'd been trying for almost a year and with my age (& DH's) we'd rather get the answers now of something was wrong so we started basic blood tests for me which all came back normal. OB wanted us to try for 2 more cycles before we went any farther with testing.

Two weeks later (the weekend before thanksgiving) I had a dream about taking a HPT and it being positive. I'd never had a dream like this before so I thought it was a little weird. I had all my pre-AF symptoms so I was certain that I wasn't pregnant and AF would show up the next week as predicted. But I just couldn't shake the dream and the next day I took a HPT and it had a faint line. I didn't tell DH but over the next 3 days I took several tests. On the Monday before thanksgiving, I came home from work and told DH I just felt 'off' and that I was going to take a test. There was a squinter line but after the 4 previous tests, I was fairly certain that it was positive. DH said to go get more tests and we'd test again in the morning. After my Barre class I told my BF about the squinter and she said 'a line is a line'....so the next morning I POAS with DH standing outside the bathroom door and it was positive before I finished peeing. I walked in the hall and showed DH the stick and we both just stood there and stared at each other. I snapped BF a pic of the test and get a text with all !!!!!! back. I didn't really believe it and for the next few weeks I was afraid every time I went to the bathroom that AF would come. My pre-period symptoms didn't go away until about 3 weeks after I tested and once we went to the doctor and heard the heartbeat did it fully sink in for either of us.

TL:DR
How did you find out?
HPT
Did you wait for your missed period or test early?
Started testing DPO 14 but didn't get a full positive until day 18.
Did you know or was it a shock?
Shock and awe!
Did you tell your SO in a fun way?
Nope, he stood outside the bathroom door and waiting until I told him.

bostonlady-2 · June 2017

Fun! It's been so long since I posted, but I've been benched from work and am hoping to join in more. DH and I are surrounded by people who have had difficulty getting pregnant. We thought it would take a while, so we decided to stop the pill, thinking that we'd really start trying in a few months once my cycles were (hopefully) normal. I was on the pill for about 15 years, so I thought my breasts were killing me because it was normal when not on the pill...But, I had a patient I was going to care for with CMV, so at work I took a test and was shocked when it was positive.

I left the positive test in a grocery bag when I came home and DH was helping me take everything out to make dinner. He was so excited! We told our parents after we got our early screening results back by having them open Christmas gifts with little socks saying to "save me" for July. My mom cried for over 30 minutes she was so surprised and happy.

I'm getting ready for him to be done cooking so we can meet him. Just another 5 weeks!

WeddingNotes13 · June 2017

How did you find out? HPT. Although, I took it at work.

Did you wait for your missed period or test early? My cycles were irregular. I took the test because of symptoms. I was around 6weeks at that time.

Did you know or was it a shock? It was a shock. My symptoms pointed straight to it, but I thought there was no way. I had discontinued birth control, but we were still preventing (condoms) as we worked out some life plans. I was disappointed and thought we had missed the window to have LO before I started grad school. I took the test the day before my birthday. I was was super excited and grinning ear to ear, but in shock.

Did you tell your SO/kids a fun way? Etc! Not really. I immediately text a pic to DH my sisters.

SaphireSweetie88 · June 2017

I loved reading everyone's stories!!

How did you find out? DH and I were at a hockey game and I decided to get a snack between periods. I came back with a huge slice of cheese pizza. DH looked at me weird (since I usually don't go for pizza - too much as a kid) and I said what it sounds good. DH just said you're pregnant. I laughed and was like okay whatever. I kept thinking about it and thought maybe he was right since it was weird I was craving pizza so I took a test 2 days later using FMU and saw the faintest of lines

Did you wait for your missed period or test early? I tested early but not too early. I think it was maybe 3 or 4 days before AF was due

Did you know or was it a shock? It was a shock because after so many negative tests I guess I was just assuming this would be the same.

Did you tell your SO/kids a fun way? Etc I called DH into the bathroom and said uhhh I think there's a 2nd line. He looked at the test and was like yes there is. I still didn't believe it and expected it to be a false positive or something so I tested for the next couple days until the line was not so faint. Once I was satisfied, we bought a onsie for his parents and a set of bibs for mine.

cielaw89 · June 2017

TL;DR at bottom

*TW*
I had experienced a MMC in March 2016 and was devastated. It took me a while to come back around from it; had a few months of depression and wasn't sure I wanted to even try again for fear of going through it again. I went back on BC to prevent it, but I finally got out of my depression after a few months and stopped taking the BC. I was ready to just let whatever would happen, happen.

So I wasn't on BC and it wasn't like we weren't trying not to get pregnant. I was nearing the end of my semester of student teaching and was heading into Thanksgiving break. I was 3 days late, but I was extremely stressed and I've always had irregular periods, so I wasn't too surprised about being late. The only symptom I was having were tender breasts, but I figured it was AF coming. So I talked to DH about how I was feeling and he went out and bought me a HPT. I waited another day before I took the HPT. DH was getting ready for work when I decided to take it. So I used it and waited and then I saw the two lines as clear as can be. I stood in the restroom for a few minutes trying to calm my mind down. My anxiety shot through the roof as it usually does when something major happens lol. DH knocked on the door and said he was leaving, so I walked out with the HPT in hand and showed it to him as he was walking out. He looked at me, smiled, and said "well, now we know!"

We didn't tell anyone until we saw a HB at my first OB appt. It was such a relief to see a HB. Even my OB was excited for us! Her knowing the heartbreak We went through made the visit that much more happy once we saw and heard that HB. So we told our parents that week.

we didn't tell DSS until after the first trimester passed. We bought him a big brother shirt and put it in a gift bag with an US picture and had him open it. He was so shocked! He held back tears!

TL;DR
How did you find out?
I took a HPT.

Did you wait for your missed period or test early?
I was 3 days late when I finally decided I should take a HPT. 3 days late was kinda normal at that point.

Did you know or was it a shock?
The only symptom I had was tender breasts, so I didn't really know. I was shocked!

Did you tell your SO/kids a fun way? Etc!
Told DH the same day before he left for work. Told DSS after the first trimester passed.

jkbrownstein · June 2017

The previous month of trying I really felt off and thought I was pregnant but wasn't so this time I was determined to wait until after my missed period to test. I was crazy thirsty/dry mouth for days and then during parent teacher conferences and I started cramping like I was getting AF. Went to the bathroom, saw spotting and assumed I wasn't pregnant and put a pad in. When nothing more happened, I was convinced I was pregnant but still held out a few more days before I tested to be sure.

I'm the worst, my SO was out of town for the weekend but I couldn't wait for him to come home to test and then once it was positive I had to tell him, so he found out through a phone call

notachanski · June 2017

My DH and I were not trying but I suppose accidents happen. One night, I rushed to the bathroom feeling sick. I walked out and said to him, we're having another baby. He was shocked, but I explained I knew 100% what that sick feeling was from. That was about 10 days before my missed period.

We waited until Christmas morning and told our 2 daughters there was an extra surprise.... they were getting a new brother or sister. They were thrilled.

dancegurl1118 · June 2017

It took 9 mo to get pregnant with DD (Still not long, I know) and 4 months of hardcore trying (temping, ovulation strips, cervical mucus stalking) so I expected about the same amount of time once we decided to start trying for this one.

Because of work requirements I couldn't get pregnant until mid September or I wouldn't have had time off with a new baby...but I was just using ovulation strips this time (Wondfo's ruled my world) and timed intercourse. Took us 2 whole months, wasn't expecting such a short amount of time but was very happy.

I started testing at like 7DPO because I'm insane and got a legit positive with DD at 9DPO. this one I got a faint faint faint squinter at 10DPO, but also started spotting for the next few days, enough that I needed a tampon one day. The line didn't get darker for about 2 days even though I took 10 tests at all different times of the day (still will forever sing Wondfo's praises). I was of course texting DH through all of this, but really thought I was having a CP because I had tested so early and was bleeding. But here we are. The spotting lasted a week and then stopped, and I was using the weeks predictor tests so I was confident that my Beta level was increasing appropriately.

We we out DD in a "Best Big Sister" shirt and just brought her to my parents and in laws on the same day to see how long it took for them to figure out. Of course it was super early (like 5 weeks) but DH gets too excited and tells everyone...and also my personal belief is that I would rather have the support of those around me if I had a loss than suffer in silence. The first 12 weeks are so anxiety producing and it's really hard to carry all those emotions as a secret. But I didn't publicly tell people besides our parents until after my nuchal screening and cell free DNA.

ANYWHO here we are 34 weeks later...

ginger1228 · June 2017

H and I have tried off and on for a couple years but never consistently - more of a NTNP. Well we had been talking about it more seriously last summer/fall. I made a comment in October that we basically had one more day to try that cycle. It was the only time we had sex that cycle. I wasn't temping or anything. I know cycles can change at any time but I've always been a 26-29 day cycle.

I had a weird feeling that I was pregnant this cycle but figured I was just crazy or getting excited for no reason. The week before my period was due I took a test bc I wanted wine that night. It was negative.

I had implantation bleeding the week before my period was due, but I spot before I start so I didn't think anything of it. The following week I had cramping like my period was coming. On Halloween I was complaining to my cousin about the cramps but how I still hasn't started even though I should have. She was like "you're pregnant" (as a joke) and I assumed I wasn't bc of the cramps but her comment made me think more into it and I realized I was actually a day or two late. I took a test the next morning (I didn't even tell H I was taking it or suspected).

It was was a wondfo and I saw the second line and wasn't really even shocked bc I had a feeling it was going to be positive. I just said "what the fuck is that?" And that started laughing. So I guess I was still surprised? I don't know how to explain it. It's like I knew in the back of my mind but was still surprised?

So of course H is already at work. I work from home, so I sat here all day waiting for him to get home. He messages me on his way home and tells me he's stopping at the store. Seriously?! Get your ass home!

He comes home and was in a quiet mood and didn't chat like he usually does and just went downstairs to play a video game. So I followed him down and made small talk. I finally said "sooo want to know what I learned today? That I'm pregnant."
He didn't believe me. He thought I was just saying it to see if he was listening to me. I had to tell him three times that I was for real and then he had to go look at the test to really believe me.

Then he sits on the couch and says "ok, so what do we do now?" Haha. I was like "uh. WE don't do anything. I just call a doctor and grow a human."

After I told him I texted my BFF. I couldn't keep it from her any longer but of course I wanted to tell h first.

longhairdntcare · June 2017

DH and I play on a co-ed football team, so I ended up testing really early because I didn't want to play if I was KO (the games tend to get pretty physical). I think it was only 9-10 DPO. So I tested with a wondfo, and I didn't realize you needed to wait the full 5 minutes to read it. I thought that once the dye passed by the point where the second line would be, if there was nothing there, it was BFN. So I thought it was negative and came back to bed all sad and cranky. Then we got up to get ready for football like 30 min later and the test was still sitting on the counter, and I thought I saw the faintest of faint lines. I was convinced it was an evap line, but took it downstairs and asked DH if he saw the line. He said he thought he did but wasn't sure. I was so frustrated/confused that I threw the test at him lol So then I re-tested with a FRER and there was a darker (but still super faint line). I was in shock and showed DH and cried a little - just super overwhelmed/excited/nervous. We ended up skipping football. We had a wedding that night so I tested again before that and it was a darker positive. I did a digital the next morning.

postywiththemosty · June 2017

These are so fun to read!

We had been trying for about 6 months (Feb 16 - Aug 16) and I was temping, but never saw any signs that I was ovulating. It was pretty devastating for me each month, so we stopped temping and were NTNP. I was set to have surgery the first week of October and knew that could mess with my period after because of the trauma from surgery. I had my surgery 10/6/16 and actually started my period a few days before that.

I didn't get a period again in November, but from my research knew it was because of the surgery. Around mid-November, my boobs got insanely sore and heavy, I couldn't stand eggs in any way (normal for me because I don't like them, but I had just started learning to like egg white frittatas and was a bit obsessed) and would get so nauseated if I even thought too hard about eggs. I couldn't keep any food down and was really only drinking hot tea to stomach anything. My mom kept telling me I needed to test, but I avoided it because I knew I hadn't been ovulating, so there was really no chance that I was pregnant.

After what seemed like an eternity, I decided to pull out the last test I had left over and test early in the morning on 12/1/16 because DH was hounding me. I didn't pee enough on the test to reach the evap line so I just decided to stick it in the toilet and try to pick up on anything. (Stupid I know). That thing lit up so fast it was unreal. I just stared at the positive and kicked myself for wasting my last test. I put the test back in the box and chalked it up to chemicals in the toilet because there was no way I was pregnant. I wasn't nervous or anything and went about my day. DH was waiting anxiously and I told him I screwed up the test because it showed a false positive and to pick one up on his way home and we'd do it again the next day.

When I got home from work he was begging me to take a test, but I wasn't into it because I wanted to use first morning pee for a better result. He was frustrated and went upstairs to work on the toilet that was having issues with the float. Since I knew he wouldn't bother me and he bought a two-pack of tests, I went ahead and POAS almost 12 hours exactly after I had tested that morning.

I've always laughed at how long they make the wait seem in the movies for those 2-3 minutes, but I finally experienced this feeling. That was the longest 3 minutes of my life. I got a digital read test and when I looked down and saw 'Pregnant' I burst into tears I was so happy and in shock. I ran upstairs and told DH right away and he couldn't believe it at all.

We waited until Christmas Eve to tell our families since most of them were there for Christmas. I had shirts made for everyone - an endeavor they have made fun of me for since two Christmases ago I tried to make them myself and ran out of time and they were pretty awful. The front said Christmas 2016 and the back said each persons role (grandma, uncle, etc.) and had a jersey style 17 for the year. I wrapped them individually and had DH film it. I told them the t-shirt company wanted videos of people getting the custom shirts for a contest to win more shirts and they all bought it. I also told them to open it slowly because one of the boxes had a surprise inside.

They all opened them and looked in the box, but were sad nobody got the "surprise." Some of them read the back of the shirts and thought they got another family member's shirt by mistake. A few seconds later it clicked and everyone went nuts. Most of all my mother who burst into tears and was screaming. It worked out perfectly!

BusyZee · June 2017

These are so sweet! Loved reading everyone's stories.

maribeth0721 · June 2017

In early 2016 we took a "if it happens, it happens" approach and I think I went off my BC in March. I'm in my early 30s and DH is in his late 30s so we figured now or never. Then after going off BC my period never really came back. So after 5ish months I went to see my OB and she did some tests on me and said all was normal, no explanation for the lack of period but could be a concern that I wasn't ovulating. She said to wait it out a few more months. So in August-September I started taking ovulation tests simply to verify I was actually ovulating and the tests were weird, they would indicate "peak level" for like 5 days straight, so I wasn't sure if I could trust them or not. We had a 10 day vacation planned in October and I thought I'm not going to worry about this anymore, after I come back from vacation I'll see the doctor.

About 2 weeks after we got back from vacation I hosted my BFF's baby shower at my house. All day I was feeling weird, very bloated and my boobs were super sore. I decided to take a pregnancy test after the baby shower as we were about to go to dinner. I honestly was just taking it to verify I WASN'T pregnant but BOOM 2 very clear lines showed up immediately. I ran downstairs and told my husband he had to go to the store to buy more pregnancy tests and he just sort of stared at my like a deer in the headlights and said, "wait....what??!" Lol. I honestly didn't believe the test (knowing what I know now I know there really is no such thing as a false positive, only a false negative). I chugged a bunch of water, he came back from the store. I took another TWO tests and all were very clear positives.

So it seems silly to have been surprised but we were!

Creedon778 · June 2017

We thought we were totally done after #2 and because my dr advised me to get off birth control pills because of my age, DH agreed to a vasectomy. It was scheduled for Nov 1 and I went off my BCPs the previous month thinking it was low risk. At his prep visit a week before the vasectomy, DH decided he wanted to go under for it (he's kind of a baby about these things) which meant having to push out his appointment so it could be done in the hospital instead of the dr's office. I'm not positive of the exact date, but likely a few days before or after the originally scheduled vasectomy baby #3 decided our family wasn't going to be complete without him.

I found out because my periods are generally regular and I was late. I took a test and we were both in shock. DH has since gotten the vasectomy so we are DEFINITELY done this time!!

chiquita928 · June 2017

I have shared some of DH's medical journey on here before, but the short story is that he had brain cancer, radiation, and then 10 years later, a stroke. Since then we've learned that there were actually three strokes. The year after the stroke he had a seizure, and about a year later, he had 6 seizures. The stroke happened when DS was 9 months old. I was mostly convinced at that point (despite always wanting a second child) that we needed to be one and done. Eventually he started to get SS disability, and as became a SAHD. After the 6 seizure episode, DH was finally put on medication to prevent future ones, and we started finally feeling that his meds were balanced, and our life was stabilizing. We realized then that if something happened in the future, we'd handle it just like we had been doing, and we weren't going to let "what if" change our dreams.

We started barely TTC in June 2016 (DTD once each month when the app said I was likely ovulating...no temps or tests). We got pregnant with DS on the first time trying, so we already knew we were going to have to try longer. After 'trying' for the summer, in September I started using an ovulation kit for the month. According to the kit, I wasn't ovulating, so I started looking up different kits, in case the target one just wasn't the right kind. I ordered a more expensive one on Amazon, and when it came in, I opened it to read the directions. I decided I would start using it during my next cycle. I also started an intense exercise program in September (for unrelated reasons), but lost 10 pounds.

I'm ridiculously regular, so on the day that I was supposed to get my period and didn't, I realized that I was pregnant. (Same thing happened with DS.) The only symptom I had at the time was fatigue, but I thought it was just the exercise program. I showed DH a test the next day (I think that was my 4th one...), which was still kind of faint. He wanted a darker line, so I bought a few different brands, and confirmed. He was pretty terrified, and didn't seem happy, so we had to talk. He was worried about me going back to work, and leaving her with him. Truth be told, we were both hesitant because of his health issues that taking care of an infant alone would be too much. We decided but we agree to send this LO to the same babysitter as DS, and that's when DH started getting excited.

We waited until the day before the anatomy scan to tell DS that Mommy was growing a baby in her belly. He got so excited, and gave me a big hug. When we said that he was going to have a baby brother or sister, and we were going to hopefully find out which one the next day, he demanded a sister (good thing it's a girl!). He's been talking to my belly ever since.

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