GTKY: How did you tell your SO?

vrj0522 · March 2018

Let's do a fun GTKY. How did you announce your pregnancy to your SO?

TheSouffleGirl · March 2018

My husband was working from home and in an online meeting. When he came out, I said in a very unceremonious manner: "I took a pregnancy test. We're having another baby."

I might have also revealed to him the gender of our first baby via text.

I do have cutesy and romantic capacities buried somewhere deep within me, but honestly I just can't take knowing something important that he doesn't, not even for ten seconds!

therealfrizzle · March 2018

I walked out with the blue dye test and asked him to look at it. He thought there could be something but not 100% sure. I told him I was taking a digital at work and would let him know. He got a photo of the positive digital. After I told my Jan 17 mommy group....But in fairness, he didn't check his message until 3 hours later so...

cm716 · March 2018

I walked downstairs sobbing while holding a pregnancy test...which he couldn't initially tell if it was positive or negative... Sooooo basically I'm super smooth.

@TheSouffleGirl glad to know I'm not alone!!!

brookepdavis · March 2018

We have a tradition where we pull out our fancy wedding champagne flutes and put them on the counter when one of us has big news (new job, promotion, pregnancy, etc.). So for DD I put the glasses out while he was at work and he came home to them. He was shocked. I thought it would be fun to do that again, so I got the glasses out and set up. Then he texts me "My mom is on her way over." so I quickly shove them away before she got there. So when he got home (and his mom still wasn't there yet) I said "well I had a whole big thing planned, but you ruined it." Of course he asked what I was talking about so I just told him. Not as romantic as the first time, but still fun.

pink_polkadots · March 2018

I woke him up in the AM on a Saturday by shoving the pee stick in his face and sobbing.

tessiesmom26 · March 2018

I had this whole big thing planned, but honestly as soon as I saw a faint line I ran out of the bathroom going "babeeee!" He wanted more than a faint line before he trusted it so the next day I took a digital. It turned while he was downstairs changing the laundry so I set this up. (Please excuse the dog hair covered sheets). He has said he wishes I surprised him and I wish I had but I was too excited. Next time, God willing!

CopperBoom86 · March 2018

H was working late, so I kept DD1 up to surprise him when he got home. She literally would not stop running around the house, so I have zero good pictures of her in her shirt. It took him a while to put two and two together, but when he did, he was so excited!

ETA: With my BFP with DD1, I did the whole walking toward him, sobbing, with a pee stick thing lol.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/j6/2ye1dqgwle7v.jpeg

MouseMama817 · March 2018

The first time around he waited outside the bathroom while I took the test so I didn’t get the chance to surprise him. This time I took the the test while he was at the gym and I very nearly called and asked him to come home. Instead I set my camera up in the kitchen and hid the pregnancy test in the fridge behind my daughter’s juice. When he got home I pretended to have my hands full and asked him to pour her a cup. We both immediately started sobbing when he found it.

cm716 · March 2018

@pink_polkadots you literally just described what I did to my husband with our first kid

phoenix870509 · March 2018

Honestly, there's a lot going on in our lives right now, so getting pregnant wasn't something we were trying for. A few weeks prior to the BFP I had gotten 2 negative tests right after I missed my period. But I was in the store on the phone with him walking past the family planning section and I told him "Babe, I'm gonna get a pregnancy test. I don't feel right." So the next morning I took it and there were the 2 lines. So I grabbed the test, marched into the bedroom where he was asleep and said "I'm pregnant." He shot straight up and said "Seriously?" so I showed him the test. He was shocked. With our first we were on vacation and he wouldn't let me go on any rides unless I showed him a negative test. I dragged him into the bathroom with me and there was the BFP. So both times he was there.

mockingjay1 · March 2018

We had just undergone testing for IVF in mid February. I was waiting for my period to do more labs and then start IVF the next cycle. My temp was still high 15dpo and since I had one FRER in the house I took it and I was completely shocked it was positive. I was shaking so bad. It was like 3-4am and when I got back in bed DH asked if I was ok and I said, "holy shit, I'm pregnant."

middleschoolmommy · March 2018

Well, I woke up Saturday (the first day of Spring Break) at around 5am. I had a dream I was pregnant, so I thought I would test. I had been having headaches all week and having to pee all the time, but my blood sugar was normal, so I figured what the heck. I saw 2 lines on the test so I walked straight into the bedroom, turned on the light, and said "what do you see?" lol. Not the best, but it beats how I told him with DS... I called him and told him over the phone as soon as the test turned positive. At least it was in person this time!

wamam027 · March 2018

DH is out in the middle of the ocean and can only communicate spotily every few days via work email...so he got an email saying "10 days home after 7 months apart must be good for us; we are having another baby". He said he showed the guys at work before he responded to me because the internet was out..so I didn't get a reply for 5 days. So romantic.

kbrown2385 · March 2018

I asked him to pick up a test on his way home from work because I realized I was a couple days late for my period to start. He came home and I took it right away. I came out of the bathroom laughing because I couldn’t believe it was positive. It’s the easiest I’ve ever gotten pregnant so it was a big shock to us both!

MouseMama817 · March 2018

wamam027 said:

DH is out in the middle of the ocean and can only communicate spotily every few days via work email...so he got an email saying "10 days home after 7 months apart must be good for us; we are having another baby". He said he showed the guys at work before he responded to me because the internet was out..so I didn't get a reply for 5 days. So romantic.

Annnnnnd tears!

aels12 · March 2018

Both times he was there while we waited to see if a second line would show.. so we’ve always found out together!

lurvleybunchococonuts · March 2018

So in the days leading up to BFP I had 4 days spotting and assumed it was start of AF, but then had two days with no spotting so decided to take my LAST internet cheapie (happened to be morning of my momma's wedding). Turned positive and I refused to believe it. So ran to the Walgreens next to our hotel and got a pack of FRER. Dipped them both and started laughing/happy crying seeing the immeidate positives. Got H an orange gatorade and wrote him a note saying, "the hotel doesn't have Faygo" (he has a joke about giving orange soda, specifically faygo brand, to females friends in the past that have been pregnant and not known yet). He woke up, saw it and just said "I KNEW IT!!"

runningyogimama · March 2018

Called him into the bathroom to look at the test after, lol. With my first, I wrapped it up in a box because I worked that night and gave it to him to open when I got home from work. With the second, I texted him a picture of the test, lol.

MojieJo · March 2018

So I'm a complete weirdo. We conceived via FET and I had the doctor call my husband with the beta results (we did the same thing last time), so he knew before me!

It's easier for me to find out from him than to hear it from a stranger (in case it's bad news), plus I have anxiety about talking on the phone, so getting the call myself is doubly scary for me.

So I guess I'll answer this question backwards. He told me by calling me and asking me all casual-like when I wanted him to tell me I was pregnant.

offtoneverland · March 2018

@MojieJo I think that is so so sweet! How fun that YH knew before you did! That's a super special way to do it and it makes sense that you would want to hear possible bad news from him first.

AFM- Mine is really not romantic or sweet at all. *TW-loss* After having three losses last year, MH and I were both pretty tired of getting our hopes up about pregnancies. When I got the positive test this time around, I woke him up and said, "Hey, I just got a positive test." He responded, "Cool, let's hope it sticks." And that was that.

We had a much bigger celebration when my first beta result came back with a great number. MH cheered for me and was so excited! It was nice getting to see him excited finally after all the losses. *end TW*

MojieJo · March 2018

@offtoneverland Thank you! I've never been one to do things the "normal" way, so it's been both fun and reassuring to hear it from DH first.

ashkee05 · March 2018

So my husband would have all the babies if he could. I on the other hand LOATHE being pregnant. Everything bad happens to me and I spend most of my pregnancies in bed with a stint in the hospital as well. We talked after number 2 about me wanting to be done but he really wanted one more. We agreed to not try, but not prevent until I was 35. Well about a week before we found out my husband sat me down and told me he likes how our life is going with the kids and maybe we shouldn’t have another, I was super pumped to finally be on the same page and bam we were already pregnant. I was so shocked I threw the test at him. Lol don’t get us wrong we are both super excited to have this baby I was just completely shocked

lifesabeach85 · March 2018

We were at Disney World. He knew my period was quite late and had been hounding me about taking a test. I agreed to take one on our last day - try and get some of that Disney Magic, if you will. He was getting DD ready for the day while I was in the bathroom, I came back into the room and asked DD how she would like a baby brother or baby sister. She didn’t get it (still doesn’t really), but DH was pumped.

purplefan1 · March 2018

@offtoneverland I love his response. That is our response any time I get a positive for the same reason. And throughout my whole pregnancy with my daughter, I ended up taking the same way. "If this sticks" or "if this baby hangs around". My husband told me during labor and delivery that it looked like the baby was going to come so I could probably stop saying that.

Every other pregnancy so far he has been home when I tested so I would usually show him the test. The one with my daughter I actually gave him the test in the shower because the second line was so faint I wasn't sure I was seeing it.

This time we were driving out of town and he hadn't been home when i took it so i was trying to figure out how to slide it in to conversation. He was complaining about a new mirror we had gotten our daughter for his truck and how she is big enough now so she kicks it and i said we probably wouldn't be able to use it long with her. He was like "so I bought this and we only used it for a week?" I told him to suck it up, we can just use it for the next kid. Then I said "oh by the way, I'm pregnant." He was a little shocked because we didn't think we had a chance this month. The grin on his face was priceless to me.

firsttimespartanmom · March 2018

I had taken three tests, all negative, and DH knew so we didn’t expect to be pregnant. We were leaving for NYC the next day, so I figured I would take one more before I went on vacation and had all the wine and sushi. Woke up at 5 am, took a cheap test which looked negative again. Took a shower, got out and went to throw the test away and it looks like a faint second line! I took a First Response and it came up positive right away. Fast forward an hour of me pacing around waiting for DH’s alarm to go off, at 6 am I run into our room and say I came up with an idea of how we can save some money on this trip - I’m not going to drink. DH still half asleep asks me why and I respond I’m pregnant! He didn’t believe me until I showed him the test and then he said uh...congrats...I had grand plans of surprising him but couldn’t hold off! After he fully woke up and processed he was much more excited

purelex · March 2018

DH and I had just officially started trying again and he manages to track my cycles better than me. I had to be sneaky so I took an FRER and got my BFP a day before he knew I was expecting my period. I ran over to Target on my lunch break and got a tshirt for DD that said "World's Best Sister." Between DD's swim lesson that night and DH getting there late, I managed to get her in the shirt with a jacket on. He finally noticed when we sat down for dinner later, took the jacket off and said "Wait, that's not the shirt I put her in this morning. What does that say??" and then he looked at me in shock with a big grin on his face. It's too bad I didn't get a picture!

erinmarie86 · March 2018

I took a test SUPER early on a sunday morning...we had both woken up to run a race. I just had this feeling i was pregnant and my period was supposed to come monday and i couldn't wait any longer. Even though i already kinda knew, seeing the test just made reality hit. I was in such a daze, i walked downstairs and he sort of asked what was going on cause he could see i was "off"...i may have brushed it off...but eventually just blurted out "i think i'm pregnant"---he was in shock, there was some back and forth "why do you think this?" and not much more was said--we both just went in a daze. Nothing like running 13 miles by yourself with this new (for my hubs)...i ran a 5K with the kids and was hanging out with a friend, but of course i couldn't say anything! That night he came home from the grocery store with some of my staple pregnancies go-to's (like chocolate cake)

kenzleefrenz · March 2018

Showed him the test stick. He was convinced for atleast a day that it was a joke and it was a fake stick. Haha.

prairiemomma82 · April 2018

Day 33 of my cycle, I started bleeding, so I thought it was the start of shark week. Then it stopped and there was nothing for over 24 hours. Thought that was weird, so took a dollar store test at work, middle of the afternoon. Line appeared quick but not super strong, texted my sis immediately.

I waited until DH got home from his 12 hour shift and offered to make him a Caesar. As he’s talking, I put mix in both our glasses and don’t put alcohol in mine, then interrupt him to ask if he notices anything different before I add the Clamato. He looks at one, then the other, then back again... “I have more! Why do I have more? Yours is without? Why is yours without? You’re pregnant! I knew it. Your boobs were sore. I should get snipped now. Congratulations!!!”

marfi236 · April 2018

I tested early one Sunday morning (3 days before my Beta was originally scheduled) and decided to test so that I would be prepared for what my beta would be (expecting that it would be negative). I took a FRER and the line was super light. I woke up my husband sobbing telling him to look at the test because I was pretty sure I was losing my mind and there wasn't actually any line there. He saw the line too so I took a digital test and that test came up pregnant also!

BabyBoyH92016 · April 2018

We usually take pregnancy test together (for some reason he likes to be around every time I test) Well this time around i didn’t want to make a big deal about it, so i took one alone while my husband got my toddler up. Every morning after my toddler gets up, he runs into our bedroom and all 3 of us play around in bed for a few minutes. While this was happening I gave my son the stick (I was very careful not to pee on the plastic part) My husband noticed he had something in his hand and took it away to see what it was. He was definitely surprised since he always knows when I test.

melicee14 · April 2018

He knew before I did! Period was late but I was hesitant to take a test since my periods had been a little irregular the past couple of months. One morning he said "Just take one! I have a feeling." Which was weird since he had been trying to get me to stop POAS so much because it was causing anxiety and worry during ovulation and previous cycles. I was reluctant and said "Okay but I already know its going to be negative so I don't want to see." Peed, left the stick on the top of the toilet and came to brush my teeth. He went in to use the restroom and said nothing when he came out. I figured it was bad news. Checked and was amazed at those 2 little lines! My toothbrush fell out of my mouth and I just cried and we hugged. It was pretty sweet.

firsttimemummy29 · April 2018

I'd been feeling sick for a few days (a weird cold, not nausea) before I was due on. I started feeling unwell on Thursday, we got married Friday, period due and missed Saturday, considered a possibility of pregnancy Sunday night while still feeling bad and decided to pee on a stick - thinking I was paranoid. So I go to the loo at 5am and that line turned up before it could hit the second window. I was in shock. New hubby comes to the bathroom wandering if I was being sick from my apparent cold, I showed him the stick... He didn't understand and proceeded to go to the bathroom. I briefly put my head round the door to say 'that stick means I'm pregnant' and waited. He came out and examined the pack and the stick before giggling for about 10 minutes. After which he buried his head in a pillow and said "wow, that was quick"!
I'm probably one of the only women who revealed their pregnancy to their S.O whilst he was on the loo, lol

tinypikachu · April 2018

**Tw: past MC mentioned

We don’t do suprise reveals. When we started TTC our first, H always told me he wanted me to surprise him with the news. So when I got a BFP on a Saturday morning almost 3 years ago, I got a “welcome baby” balloon and designed and printed him a card and surprised him while I recorded it all. He was in tears and we were so happy, but that pregnancy ended in a loss. So we’ve always tested together since and neither has been able to watch those viral videos of pregnancy reveals. We got DD’s BFP together and he was very hesitant to get excited until the second trimester.

**End TW

This time around, we were doing NFP, which had worked well for over a year, and weren’t planning to TTC until late summer/early fall. I spotted like 5 days before my period was due but I thought it was impossible that I was pregnant so I brushed it off. But I was extremely irritable and just kept apologizing and saying it was PMS. He mentioned maybe I could be pregnant but, again, I just told him it was impossible. We even joked about how what if we’re pregnant and here we were brushing it off as impossible. The day after my missed period, I woke up from a vivid dream and decided to test. Since we did NFP, I was aware that I had missed my period and both lines were there! He was at work so I just called him and told him. He was so, soooo excited and I was in shock lol

mamachameleon · April 2018

I told mine over the phone.... lol he had just left for drill (hes in the national guard) and i just had a gut feeling. So went out and bought a test. Lo and behold. Positive! I called him cuz he casually texted me he hit a deer on his way there and almost rolled his car. :P Anyway. I ask if hes sitting down. He said yes, i said thats probably good because i have something to tell you!!!.... I'm pregnant!

stitchnz · April 2018

We were booked in to see the OB for a pre-pregnancy planning visit (because of the high risk for me). I was pretty convinced I wasn't pregnant but took a test first thing in the morning so I would be able to confirm to the OB. Had sent my fiance out to get milk, so got the BFP result while he was out of the house. Made him look at the test when he came back just to make sure I wasn't imagining those two lines! And then had a little cry. We were pretty dazed at the OB appointment about an hour later - I think even the doctor was in shock.

blue2mango · April 2018

My DH was working nights and when he came home just as my DS and I were getting in the car to leave for me to go to work I looked at him and said, "You ready for another one of these?" (Pointing at my DS.) He replied with, "I wondered you had been grumpy lately and were like 3 days late." (To be fair my AF was always a few days off.)

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