How did you tell?

[MamaVolpe]

So how did you all tell your family and friends about the pregnancy? Any of you do it in a unique way or did you just blurt it out or are you keeping it a secret?

For me the first person I told was my baby sister. I just blurted it out with in 5 minutes of peeing on my stick. I am bad at keeping exciting news to myself but I wanted to make it special for my husband as this is our first. I did not want to wave a pee stick in his face and scream which is how I felt. So my baby sister was my vent and co planner of the secret. Fortunatly I only had to wait 3 days which was torture to me. I had a night out planned with my husband that Sat evening for dinner so that is when I decided to spring the news on him. My sister and I went shopping for the cutest outfit we could find that says "I Love My Daddy" as well as a few other baby things including a coupon book I found called You Owe Me. :lol It is full of coupons for the husband to do for a wife while pregnant. My sister also took me to get my ears pierced. Well I have to explane a bit of the back story to that one.

I am an aphresis doner, meaning that I donate platlets and plasma, to the Red Cross. Well I had never peirced my ears before and since I became a doner I always held off doing it because I would have to wait 6 months before I could donate again. So I have always said to my DH that once I get pregnant that I would get my ears pierced since I could not donate while pregnant as well.

So back to the story... with my ears pierced and my present set I try to hid my giddyness and ears from my DH until dinner. At dinner that night I tell him that I got him a present for our trip to Sicily next week and hand him the present with a card. As he is opening up the present I flip my hair back so my ears are showing and smile as big as I can manage as I am about to burst. His mouth drops open when he reads the card and presents and says "No way! That was so fast!" Then he looks up at my big grinning face and starts to grin too. We were so excited that we called everybody that night and spilled the beans. I was so relieved once I could tell everyone. So that is my long winded story. How about everybody else?

[bugnbean]

Awww! That's great!


For me...DH was gone all weekend, and didn't know I was testing. We thought there was no way this cycle would be it. Anyhow I just calmy told him that indeed there was a chance this cycle and I was pregnant. Not terribly romantic. But he was thrilled nonetheless!

[Molliejo]

Someone has been snooping online about me, so some already knew. :irked:

[tschecter]

Telling DH was nothing... it was convincing him that was hard... I had to get a digital, because he kept saying that the lines on the stick were to light to be real. We haven't told too many others yet. his mother and mine and my sisters know, but nobody else... I have to tell my dad, and he has to tell his brother, and I have to tell my brother, etc... we never do anything special for telling though. we just tell.

[MamaJ2005]

Well, DH was suspecting right along with me. I was having crazy symptoms, plus he figured something was up since I was extremely amourous when I O'ed.

I told my grandma this morning in a big burst of emotion. Noone else knows.

[MamaVolpe]

I am excited about this trip I am taking with my DH and FIL to Sicily as we have never been before. We will be meeting new family from my DH side over there. It will be awesome to meet all the Volpe's and let them know a new one is on the way. I'm so excited!

[saslewis11]

Oooh, I'd love to go to Italy. It's on my top 3 of places I want to visit...

I bought ds this t-shirt. He wore it this weekend for my parents...

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/big+brother+secret/-/pv_design_prod/p_2042955.99701571/pNo_99701571/id_15866943/fpt_/opt_/c_666/pg_1

[blizzard_babe]

I broke it to DH gently... he has issues with transitions, so I gave him LOTS of warning that I was perhaps pregnant and was going to test on X date. He had to go through a period (two days) of selfish shock before hopping wholeheartedly on the pregnancy train.

We haven't told anyone yet, and won't for a while yet. We're private people to begin with, and this is our first, so we really want to adjust to and enjoy the idea on our own before inviting everyone and her uncle into our joy.

[tree_hugger]

I broke it to DH gently... he has issues with transitions, so I gave him LOTS of warning that I was perhaps pregnant and was going to test on X date. He had to go through a period (two days) of selfish shock before hopping wholeheartedly on the pregnancy train.

I had to do this too, except it took my husband a week or so to come around. He's not quite there yet (this babe was a BIG surprise) but he'll be very excited by the end.

[FiberLover]

I haven't yet!

Just tested this morning, and he had already gone to work.

I'm thinking about just telling him straight out, since I already thought we were out of the running this month!