I know for some of us this might have been a while ago but - Tell us about finding out you were expecting? How did you tell your SO that you were pregnant? How did they react?
My husband actually brought it to my attention that it should be about time for my period. I agreed, checked my tracking app and sure enough I was a few days late. I had totally lost track of days with working from home and my three year old at home with me also. We picked up a test on the way home and sure enough, positive.
Ha... It was my first week working from home. My classes just moved online. I was sitting in my class on 8dpo around 1pm and felt some strange pain in my pelvis. I was a POAS addict so I had already taken a PG test that am but thought it was BFN. So I take another test, and sit in class (camera off obviously) squinting at it, like is that a line I see?? I decided it was a line, freaked out unbeknownst to the class. Found a FRER in a drawer, took that, faint bpf. So excited!! Happy tears!! I then thought wait what about the test I took this am? I left it on my bedside table after hastily reading negative, looked at it, also faint bpf!
Best part was that we had been TTC for a year (one nmc in that time) so we started doing basic labs for a slow infertility workup. That morning MH had to go do his semen analysis... so when he got home from work and I told him about the positive test he was like... seriously I just did a semen analysis for nothing! 😂
@gh1219 lol very similar as my husband was supposed to go for his analysis the day we found out but it was cancelled due to COVID anyway
On April fools I woke up and right as I was going to brush my teeth before work I vomited all my breakfast up lol and I am NOT someone who ever vomits. I felt instantly better once I was done. Brushed my teeth and rushed to work! The next morning I peed on a stick and it was positive! I made DH breakfast and just placed the stick beside his breakfast at plate! When he saw it he just said is that positive! Really? Cool and proceeded to eat his breakfast. I was like what that’s it why aren’t you more excited? And he was like I knew yesterday when you were vomiting lol
I had my IUD removed on 2/13 and then we started trying. I had a one day period on 3/24, I don’t think it was implantation bleeding because I’d had negative HPTs the two weeks before. On 4/24 I realized my period was a few days behind schedule so I tested and got a positive HPT. Using the 3/24 date my EDD is 12/29, but really I have no idea haha. I have my dating ultrasound on Thursday so that will shed some light.
To tell DH I sent him a picture of the positive test before hopping in the shower, nothing too exciting. We had actually talked about stopping TTC due to covid-19 right before I got the positive test. I had told him I thought it would take a long time so we should continue haha. I’m still kind of in shock it happened so quickly, with DS we were NTNP for like two years (bad timing due to work travel pretty much the whole time).
My SO got a VR in December so we really didn’t know what to expect with when it would happen. On a friend’s rec we used an OPK in March and I had a feeling that would do the trick. If we didn’t get a positive, he was also due to go in for an analysis.
We also found out on April Fools day. It was the first day of my missed period and I got a really dark line. I was trying to think of a creative way to tell him but I couldn’t wait. I just ran downstairs and handed him the test and he said “wait, what?! Really?!”
We’re going to write a big thank you note to the doctor who did the VR!
I'd been feeling tired for no real good reason and noticed that my resting heart rate had increased (per my FitBit). That said, it was my birthday week so I'd had some celebratory drinks and been eating way too much cake. The day before my period was scheduled to come I had light cramping and a little bleeding, so I figured it was all just PMS. Then two days later I realized that my period never actually came (bleeding had stopped) so I ordered a test on Amazon (yay for Prime).
The next day i took the test after it was delivered seems saw that it was absolutely positive. That's when I went upstairs and told my husband the bad news, which was that he has a lot of hard cider to drink (he hates it, but had gotten me a bunch of local cider and beer for my birthday). Only took a second or two for him to understand
We'd been trying for ... years. So I was doing my usual of testing way too early, and squinting at clearly negative tests, when ... one was maybe not negative (8dpo) Retested in the morning... okay, definitely something maybe but I've been fooled before - tested again at 10 dpo bright clear line. Hubs was already at work, so I whipped up a T shirt "Promoted to big brother" and had my son meet my husband at the door. My son was hopping and too excited to let him read it, so my son ended up yelling "IT SAYS THERE IS A BABY COMING!!!!" - Big smiles from hubs.
We’d also been trying trying for years and had actually seen two REs, both of whom declined care due to my size. We both work at Disney World and the parks closed on 3/15, so we’ve been home from work since then. My lmp was 3/17. We found out a couple of weeks later that we were officially being furloughed as of 4/19 (prior to that, the union had negotiated that we were just not being scheduled and would be paid an average of our hours). On 4/14, I woke up because my boss was calling me to tell me that one of our team had passed away from her cancer. After that, I ran into the bathroom 🤣 I’d set the test out the night before so that when I was going to use it, I could just grab the cup and go. DH was actually in the shower, and when I saw the line, I opened the curtain and told him “a line is a line” and he didn’t get what I was saying. I had to explain and then he practically pulled me into the shower to hug me 😂
We have/had been trying for just over 4 years. We had pretty much agreed it would probably never happen and we’d just enjoy life with our DD. I was supposed to start on a Monday and I never started, I had been doing Intermittent Fasting so figured that had made my period a day or two late. When it still hadn’t come by Tuesday night I ordered a bunch of tests from amazon and the first didn’t show up until Thursday late. I tested Friday morning and the line showed up before the control line. When we first started trying 4 years ago I had ordered a card that says “Oops we did it again!” And I wrote the due date on the inside and added FINALLY onto the front of the card to say “Oops we FINALLY did it again!” It took H at least a week for it to really sink in.
So we’d been casually trying but not very hard for about 9 months, because while breastfeeding my 2-year-old my hormones were still struggling to return to “normal” and the longest luteal phase I had was 8 days, so we figured it wouldn’t happen yet anyway. Once my son started sleeping through the night, I had one 9 day luteal phase, and then the next month I didn’t ovulate at all, so my cycles were really all over the place.
Well, I was waiting for my period and it hadn’t started yet, and I didn’t know if this was because my cycle was lengthening back out or not so I didn’t really have any expectations. On 9dpo we were on the phone with my MIL who told us about a dream she had just had that someone was pregnant, and she said any time she or her sister have that dream, someone in their family winds up being pregnant. She honestly wasn’t thinking it could be us, and told us to keep an eye on social media for any of the cousins who might have a pregnancy announcement. My husband and I gave each other a look like we just knew. I was going to test first thing the next morning, but my temperature had dropped like it does when my period begins so I didn’t bother. But a couple hours later when it still hasn’t showed, I decided to test and it was a very, very faint positive, so light that my husband doubted it. I tested again the following day (11dpo) and the line was darker!
@RookieAlert that is so cool about your MILs dream. My mom had a dream around the time I got pregnant with my first but just thought it was a strange dream. I keep waiting to hear if she's had any dreams about something similar this time. So far nothing. Have you told your MIL yet or are you waiting?
@mrspants0809 We told her She was so proud of herself lol, the hard part though is how badly she wants to share the news that she was “right” with the rest of the family but we made her promise not to share our news yet!
I found out 1 week into our lockdown. It was our first month of trying. I didn’t get a positive OPK until day 21, so I thought it would be an off cycle. I ended up spotting about a week later so I for sure thought I got my period and was out. Then a few days later my H asked me if I was pregnant. I said no I had my period, but then thought huh, it was only like 3 days long and super light. I still hadn’t hit the 2 week mark so I figured I would wait until then to test. It was Monday morning and I took a test mid morning while we were both working from home. A faint line showed up. I walked out to where my H was sitting and just shoved the test in front of him. He was so happy right away. I was still in denial and it took me about a week and many more tests to accept and start to be happy.
TTC History:
Me: 36 H: 40 Married 2015. Together since 2010. TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017 BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018. TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020 Due date was Nov 2020 DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma. TTC: March 2021 IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022 IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
My period was always super irregular until I had my son and I have been diagnosed with PCOS. After I had my son my cycle became 31 days on the dot and it had never been that short before! Or regular! So on day 32 I thought I should test. The morning of day 33 I took a test when I had to wake up at 4:30am to pee (which never happens) for the second day in a row. It was positive right away. I couldn’t believe it! So I had to wait until my SO woke up. He usually wakes up when our son does but that day he didn’t. So I made some extra noise and he kinda woke up. I said, “I looooove you”. He grunted. Then I said, “you’re going to be a daddy again!”. And he says, “you’ve gotta be sh***ing me!”
We found out on April Fools Day! Back story is that when we had DS we had 5 rounds of clomid and then started Metformin due to my PCOS. We weren’t going to start trying until summer but I went back on Metformin to get my body used to is again. I said to DH, “We will never get pregnant the first month. Look how much it took for DS.” Guess who got pregnant the first month? LOL... So I took a test the day before and BFN so I took one again on 4/1 and we both thought we saw a faint line on a Wondfo. I text it to my twin sister and asked her but told her not to tell anyone. She thought she saw one too so I held it for four hours (I have a kidney disease (can’t be passed to baby) so that’s harder than you think lol)... The digital came up positive. I came out saying, “I knew it! Look!”
I called my Mom on FaceTime to tell her because quarantine. She also found out with DS on facetime because of a huge snow storm and the fact that I can’t hide my excitement lol ... We told immediate family that day because I was so excited and DH was legit in shock it happened so quick. So was I buddy, so was I 😂😂
@jbal918 Our stories are similar! We tried for over a year with our first with clomid, Femara, and had just met with a Reproductive specialist when we got pregnancy naturally. So with this one we started trying thinking it would take at least a year...nope! First try did it
TTC History:
Me: 36 H: 40 Married 2015. Together since 2010. TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017 BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018. TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020 Due date was Nov 2020 DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma. TTC: March 2021 IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022 IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
With our first child, it took one try to get pregnant. This time it took 6 months (not bad but seeing negatives always sucks.) So during the month we got pregnant I took one of my ovulation tests but I took it only when I usually have my highest ovulation day... it didn’t not say I was ovulating. So I just assumed I must not have ovulated this month (my periods are still trying to get back on track from breastfeeding, I also had just gotten over my very little bit of postpartum depression) so I figured I probably wouldn’t get pregnant that month or that I had ovulated early and missed the highest day. I test early no matter what even if I think I’m not. So I decided to test at what us us all would have been 7 or 8 DPO and got the faintest postive on a wondfo. I showed my BMB feb ‘19 and my older sister (who is due in November). They all saw a faint line, DH was not convinced. I had work the next day and decided I would go pick up a FRER from target pick up. I brought it to work and just like that the line was darker and my DH could definitely see that one! I also took an electronic one bc I am a crazy lady and need to know for sure and it said pregnant. It took DH about a week to believe it. My appointment is tomorrow and I think it will make it even more real for both of us! I’m excited to see what they say my due date is based off the size and all the information I give them.
We had been trying to get pregnant for nine months and decided this month to NTNP. We just bought a house and were moving. Add in this quaratine stuff and getting temporarily laid off from my job. I just couldn't handle another thing and was feeling pretty pessimistic about the whole thing. Well I was just so tired all the time, but thought it was from unpacking. I tested on a Friday afternoon and got a negative (not the best test sample). I thought we were out with some spotting, but when AF didn't show up three days later, I retested. I had to wait two hours for my husband to wake up. Eventually I just woke him up with some little baby socks all wrapped up. Thought he might want some time to process it before jumping on his morning meeting.
We were just ready to start trying when this whole Covid thing started. We decided to NTNP for the time being. On one hand, I am 39, and we really wanted one more child (we have 3 now) before the window closed. But on the other hand, a pandemic and all that uncertainty... lo and behold I got ku right away! I think my husband was even happier than I was! We are both over the moon, but I’m still nervous about the idea of having to possibly homeschool a kindergartener and a first grader with a 2 1/2 year old and a newborn!
I was expecting my period on Friday 3/20 and it didn't start. This was't really a bid deal, because my cycles are anywhere from 28-32 days normally. I did take a test that Friday and it came back negative, so I just figured my period should start in the next few days. I tested again on Sunday and still BFN. Then on Monday I thought there was a faint line, but I still wasn't convinced. So I ordered a digital test and when it arrived on 3/25 I got my for sure answer: I was pregnant with baby #4. This was not a planned pregnancy, but one we are very excited about. We still haven't told our kids yet (DS 8, DD1 6 and DD2 4), but plan to after getting the gender results from the genetic testing and nuchal translucency ultrasound I am having next done week. I feel very blessed that we are adding to our family.
Re: MILESTONE - Finding out you are pregnant
It was my first week working from home. My classes just moved online. I was sitting in my class on 8dpo around 1pm and felt some strange pain in my pelvis. I was a POAS addict so I had already taken a PG test that am but thought it was BFN. So I take another test, and sit in class (camera off obviously) squinting at it, like is that a line I see?? I decided it was a line, freaked out unbeknownst to the class. Found a FRER in a drawer, took that, faint bpf. So excited!! Happy tears!! I then thought wait what about the test I took this am? I left it on my bedside table after hastily reading negative, looked at it, also faint bpf!
Best part was that we had been TTC for a year (one nmc in that time) so we started doing basic labs for a slow infertility workup. That morning MH had to go do his semen analysis... so when he got home from work and I told him about the positive test he was like... seriously I just did a semen analysis for nothing! 😂
On April fools I woke up and right as I was going to brush my teeth before work I vomited all my breakfast up lol and I am NOT someone who ever vomits. I felt instantly better once I was done. Brushed my teeth and rushed to work! The next morning I peed on a stick and it was positive! I made DH breakfast and just placed the stick beside his breakfast at plate! When he saw it he just said is that positive! Really? Cool and proceeded to eat his breakfast. I was like what that’s it why aren’t you more excited? And he was like I knew yesterday when you were vomiting lol
To tell DH I sent him a picture of the positive test before hopping in the shower, nothing too exciting. We had actually talked about stopping TTC due to covid-19 right before I got the positive test. I had told him I thought it would take a long time so we should continue haha. I’m still kind of in shock it happened so quickly, with DS we were NTNP for like two years (bad timing due to work travel pretty much the whole time).
We also found out on April Fools day. It was the first day of my missed period and I got a really dark line. I was trying to think of a creative way to tell him but I couldn’t wait. I just ran downstairs and handed him the test and he said “wait, what?! Really?!”
The next day i took the test after it was delivered seems saw that it was absolutely positive. That's when I went upstairs and told my husband the bad news, which was that he has a lot of hard cider to drink (he hates it, but had gotten me a bunch of local cider and beer for my birthday). Only took a second or two for him to understand
Hubs was already at work, so I whipped up a T shirt "Promoted to big brother" and had my son meet my husband at the door. My son was hopping and too excited to let him read it, so my son ended up yelling "IT SAYS THERE IS A BABY COMING!!!!" - Big smiles from hubs.
Diminished ovarian reserve
BFP: 4/14/2020 EDD: 12/20/2020
Well, I was waiting for my period and it hadn’t started yet, and I didn’t know if this was because my cycle was lengthening back out or not so I didn’t really have any expectations. On 9dpo we were on the phone with my MIL who told us about a dream she had just had that someone was pregnant, and she said any time she or her sister have that dream, someone in their family winds up being pregnant. She honestly wasn’t thinking it could be us, and told us to keep an eye on social media for any of the cousins who might have a pregnancy announcement. My husband and I gave each other a look like we just knew. I was going to test first thing the next morning, but my temperature had dropped like it does when my period begins so I didn’t bother. But a couple hours later when it still hasn’t showed, I decided to test and it was a very, very faint positive, so light that my husband doubted it. I tested again the following day (11dpo) and the line was darker!
TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017
BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018.
TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020
Due date was Nov 2020
DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma.
TTC: March 2021
IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN
IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022
IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN
IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN
AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
Guess who got pregnant the first month? LOL...
So I took a test the day before and BFN so I took one again on 4/1 and we both thought we saw a faint line on a Wondfo. I text it to my twin sister and asked her but told her not to tell anyone. She thought she saw one too so I held it for four hours (I have a kidney disease (can’t be passed to baby) so that’s harder than you think lol)... The digital came up positive. I came out saying, “I knew it! Look!”
I called my Mom on FaceTime to tell her because quarantine. She also found out with DS on facetime because of a huge snow storm and the fact that I can’t hide my excitement lol ... We told immediate family that day because I was so excited and DH was legit in shock it happened so quick. So was I buddy, so was I 😂😂
TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017
BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018.
TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020
Due date was Nov 2020
DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma.
TTC: March 2021
IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN
IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022
IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN
IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN
AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.