is there a "how did you tell DH" thread? - Page 2

[gummibears]

The day before I tested I just blurted out on the phone "I very well could be pregnant" He was silent, LOL. That was when I realized I had hit CD 30 and it dawned on ME that this could be it.

I'd been feeling like getting AF and cervix was low/hard, but I hit day 30 and I never hit day 30 under the most extreme stress.

So, I tested the next morning and it was positive in 3 seconds. I shook and cried silently so as not to wake everyone up. Later that day, DS was whining how he was impatient and wanted a baby in my tummy, I looked like wellll. Ran and told DH I took the test what do you think it said (without any expression trying to not reveal my joy) he said no? I shook head no. and he was kinda like darn.

So, I had to press it and said. No, it didn't say no, I am. He was surprised and happy and came out and told DS who was VERY surprised and happy. Then DH asked to see the test, LOL. I pulled it out unsure if all those hours later it still showed (I tested the SECOND time I peed that night at 5am) and mentioned that I took a photo of it just in case it changed and he wanted to see with his own eyes. :P

3 days before my birthday, no less. I really didn't think I'd get the one gift I wanted.

Since then DH has been listening to my tummy to what he thinks is the baby's heartbeat.

[A-mac]

We'd been trying naturally forever. I'd taken many, many tests in the past (7 years) I woke up one morning at the end of our first clomid cycle feeling weird. Dh was at work, but I couldn't help but test. When the second line came up I started crying, then laughing then crying some more. I just couldn't tell him over the phone so I was bugging him all day about when he would be home. He likes to give me raspberries, so I taped a note to my belly from the baby saying that she didn't like it so to give it a rest for the next nine months. When he got home he gave me a hug and felt the note. When he read it he thought I was just being funny. Then I pulled out the test. He still didn't believe me because the control line was darker. I told him that I'd taken way too many of those things not to know how to read it, but he didn't believe me until I bought a digital that night that very clearly said 'pregnant'. Within the next few days he had everything planned out.

[Smokering]

Nothing exciting. The first time, he was right there when I took the test (twice in a row, because I was convinced the first one must be wrong!).

This second time, I was 99% sure that I was pregnant by 12DPO... or was it 11? Early. But I'd been charting and obsessively noting symptoms and so on. DH was party to my incessant ranting on the subject, so he wasn't exactly in the dark. I went to the midwife's for a free test because I was too cheap to buy one (heh), and I was totally unsurprised when it came up positive. I just said "Yep, that looks positive" and the midwife got all worried and asked if I wanted to be pregnant. Then I had to get bloods done and stuff, and by the time I got home the midwife had rung DH to say she was worried she'd sold me two bottles of folic acid instead of one folic acid and one iodine. She didn't exactly say I was pregnant, but DH kind of assumed. Anyway, someone was visiting when I got home, so we had to wait until he left and DD wasn't pesking around, and then he just said "So was it positive?" and I said "yep" and he said "Ooh!". We're very dramatic people.

[globe-trotter]

We had a big dinner out planned with friends.... I told one of the girls in the group so she could help me out. When we were all ordering drinks she asked me if I would like to share a bottle of wine (normal for the group). I said I probably shouldn't since I'm was pregnant... took hubby a second but he was very excited! (we were Trying).

[lmevans]

First pregnancy- Pretty boring, I think I just peed on the stick and showed DH that it was positive.

Second pregnancy- DH was out hunting in the morning. My temperature spiked that morning, and I wondered....
The only tests I had in the house were expired, but I used them anyway. When DH got home, I asked him if he thought expired tests would show an accurate result. He said he wasn't sure. I said, "Because if so, then I think I'm pregnant." I got an Equate, and sure enough!

Third Pregnancy- I took the test and there was a faint line. It was on the weekend, so DH was sleeping in and still in bed. I went upstairs and got back into bed with him. I showed him the strip and asked if he saw 2 lines or 1. He said 2, but was skeptical about the line being so light. Of course, I continued testing and the line got darker.

Fourth Pregnancy- I tested at 10dpo and got a faiiiiint line. I wasn't calling it a positive yet. I didn't even tell DH I had tested. The next day I tested again, and it was a little darker...dark enough that I called it positive.
I used the children's alphabet blocks to spell out "U+Me=Baby" and laid it on a baby blanket. I took a picture of it with my cell phone and texted it to him when he came home for lunch. He looked at it and asked, "Is that a true statement?" I said it was. We kissed and hugged. <3

[HappyHelpmate]

#1- We had been trying, and I was having symptoms before my cycle was even late, and I told DH that I thought I might be pg, but I don't think he put much stock in it, bc I had been 1-2days late before, tested, and been negative. Wellllll.... I got a test from the Dr's office next door to my work, and took the test in the bathroom at work. POSITIVE!

Soooo...... I arranged to have dinner out that night with my hubby, and it was in May, so there were Father's Day cards for sale in the stores, so I bought a "Happy Father's Day" card and put the positive test in with the card. He didn't expect anything, but when he opened the card and looked at the test he said, "Really?" and I told him, Yes, we are going to have a baby! and he was really excited.

#2- I think I just took the test and showed him. Actually, I had spent the week at my Mom's house out of town, expecting to start my cycle close to the time when I got there. It didn't come by the end of the week, so I bought a test, and took it as soon as DH got to my Mom's to bring me home. It was a big shock! (but a happy one!)

#3- We expected it this time, a few days before I was late, but I took a test 1 day before my cycle was due, and it came out negative..... So I waited a week thinking I must just be crazy, or that my cycle was just off bc I'd only had 3 PPAF, but it was positive this time! I think I just came out of the bathroom and told him.

I'm having an ultrasound next week, and we're hoping to find out the gender, but DH isn't able to come with me. I'm trying to think of some creative way to tell him... Maybe this thread can give me some ideas for that......