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So, I'm getting totally ahead of myself and daydreaming about how I'll tell Professor and everyone else when I'm finally pregnant :rofl: Positive thinking, right?
Did anyone plan something in advance? If so, what? And if you haven't yet, what WOULD you do?
is there something you are not telling us keike???
i haven't thought about how i will tell people.
I've always wanted to announce it to DH in a fortune cookie that I have made but he has always been right there next to me when I have found out - except for one time when I was at work and I just blurted it out over the phone.
Usually I just blurt it out. This time, I got a 'grandparents' photo fram and put photos's of all the grandkids in it, and then cut out a silloute in paper and stuck that in too, with the words "coming soon....Due 8/10/11..."
With the twins DP was with me and I just kept hitting him on the arm while watching the 2nd line appear.. This time, I sent a pic of the positive test and wrote: I think we should see each other today, I'll pick you up after Tafe. BTW do you like the pic.. Hde called back and said "What is it?" :duh: I replied "It's a f...ing positive pregnancy test!" It kinda ruined it Lol.. The line was feint though.. I also sent it to my friend though and she knew straight away... Men!
Im keen for ideas too!!
I dont want to just say 'im pg' i want to do something different and special for DH. but yea want something cool...atm looks like it might just be a card or something...
i think the TTC gives us too much time to think about stuff like this... how did you tell him with your others Keike?
With Cooper I sent a picture of the positive test to mum and she said 'should I be excited?' lol well duh I wouldn't send a pic of a negative test lol, with pickle it was the night we were celebrating DFs 21st so I pulled him aside showed him the test and said 'happy birthday' needless to say he didn't stop smiling the rest of the night
On BellyBelly. I kept it quiet until 10wks then uploaded my pregnancy avatar. That was my pregnancy with Ashton. Only a select few knew.
To tell Andrew when I was pregnant with Ashton. He heard the "Oh ****" come out of the toilet LMAO.
With Kameron our first born. I took a the positive pregnancy test to Mum's and told her she was looking at her newest grandchild to be. I think with Andrew I just blurted it out and started crying, and I pretty much did the same for Lachlan lol.
You're right - I'm gonna be so disappointed I think, pregnancy and bub raising can't possibly be as awesome as I've made it in my head!:
Sadly my announcements have always been immediately followed with a 'but....', or I didn't know until I lost the bub :cry: That's why I wanna make my next one extra special, I don't wanna be saying anything but good things!
Ah, I never got to 'announce' it like a normal person. Except on BB. But I was too scared to do that really.
I would love to surprise DH with an announcement out of the blue. That would be great - nothing fancy, just a Guess what?! :D
we had planned to give everyone a christmas card with a pic of bub from 12 week scan - but some twit at Target told my aunt and ruined it all so i had to do the family ring around early. i did manage to surprise a few rellos by changing my fb profile pic at 12 weeks - they rang other family instead of asking me outright lol
I just ring people and tell them. lol
All our family is OS or the other side of the country, so no other way really. Besides, I'm not one for dramatics about all that sort of stuff.
I don't even remember how I told DH about DD2.
Oh that is so wrong BG, didja complain? What a bigmouth!
LOL LS, you sound like my sister. She forgot to even tell us for a few weeks, she just goes 'oh, i'm pregnant again btw, been meaning to mention it' :rofl:
Dp will know when I am rushed off in the ambulance from fainting with shock. At which time they will have to call another ambulance for him!
For DH he was right there with me when I tested. Well not in the bathroom :lol: but you get what I mean..
with Ds1 we told people to their face although with my mum I was scared so she got told over the phone :lol:
With our other 3 we got Ds1 first to announce it to my mum.. with Ds3 we got Ds2 to ring the inlaws and when we found out about DD we got Ds3 to ring SIL..
We just changed who found out first each time
With our losses I am not sure why but we just announced it ourselves. Maybe we knew on a deeper level it wasn't going to end well but either way they were announced like the others
I am also getting ahead of myself, but Ive always thought of how Im going to announce it on BB when i post in the PA!
Still waiting for the day lol
Out of my 3 pregnancies, this was my favourite moment of revealing a pregnancy:
With DS1, I got a BFP the day before DH's birthday. I kept quiet, which was hard.
I wrapped the HPT up and wrote a card saying: 'this gift isn't ready yet, but here's a hint...'.
My DD handed each present to DH- one at a time - on the morning of his birthday. I saved the HPT for last. DD was sitting next to him as he opened it. I watched the momentary confusion, then realisation, then delight- and he cried. (I had miscarried two cycles previously, and I think he had taken it even harder than I had). I have a photo of DS and DD sitting together as he opened the HPT. It always gives me a lovely feeling when I look at it.
Ash I'm all teary. That's beautiful.
Even though we did IVF, I was able to surprise DH with my positive test.
My BT was scheduled for the Wednesday, but Monday morning I had to go to the shops for work. I decided to buy a test to prepare myself for Wednesday's result.
I didn't tell DH I was testing and didn't want to tell him it was positive over the phone. There was no way i could wait until he got home from work so I grabbed my wallet, phone and the test, yelled to my receptionist that I was going out for a while.
I drove into the City and called DH from outside his work and asked him to come outside. He walked out thinking I was going to tell him AF had arrived. He got in the car and asked what was wrong. I told I wanted to show him something, as we often joked that pg tests with 2 lines didn't really exist. I handed him the positive test and we both promptly burst into tears.
It was an awesome moment and tear up every time I retell the story.
Yeh me too, for both. Though for DD, I did the test, left it in the bathroom, then went about my business and it was DH who went and checked it and said "it's positive!" and I didn't believe him!!!:
With DS, DH had already decided I was pg (he has his own way of testing :lol: ) so it wasn't a surprise really!
Awwwww Nic I'm all teary again!!! That is so beautiful.
Yea I'm hoping to do the same. DH knows my blood test is on fri, so i'm hoping i get something before that so i can still surprise him. unfortuantly my parents are coming to visit (actually good they are coming to visit) but they will be here the day i have to do my blood test...so i cant really surprise them properly, cause they will know i will have my results that afternoon..:
DH recons he has his own way of testing too, with his ex he said he knew before her for a majority, but i think because i am expecting it ill get it before his test will work =P:
I always used to buy DH little gifts of chocolate so when I found out I was pg I got a gift bag and filled it with funsize kit-kats and my positive pregnancy test. He was so excited with his chocolates that he didn't really see the pg test and while eating the chocolate saw it in there and was like 'what's this?' with chocolate in his mouth LOL then he figured it out. With my parents I told them in person, with friends two found out by accidentally finding my positive tests, and my two best friends I called and told the news :)
With my first, we told at Christmas dinner as all my family were there. We wrote a little poem & stuck it inside the bon bons - it's a very funny memory!
I wore a "baby on board" sign and stood up in a skype conversation to tell my folks about dd, DH was there for testing.
DS I tested by myself and rang him to say "I just wanted to tell the father of my children that I love him" blubber blubber.
It's so much fun.
You could get daddy merchandise. Some very cute stuff around. Go on a date and present him with a pressie. A reality tv couple, maybe farmer wants a wife? Got a box and put three peas inside as they had always said they were two peas in a pod. Cute... Apparently so the woman's mag told me (must be true) he know straight away.
Keep daydreaming! I too dreamt of it for a long time and it was even mote awesome than id dreamt.
DD1 I tested and went to our room (we had a friend staying) I yelled to dp, he came in and I cried then we left for after hours :rofl:
We called our parents (mine didn't live close) and his mum didn't believe us :p
DD2 I left the test in the laundry, dp came out and said to DD your going to be a big sister, I barked for hours.
Sent from my iPhone, more than likely while I should be doing something else!
I was SO not expecting a positive test. I'd done it on a whim at 11dpo, DF was t his mothers building a fence. I saw the second line, almost vomitted, then rang DF. I just couldn't wait. I said something like, "You need to come home." And he was like "why?" and I said, "because I'm pregnant." We were both shocked. I heard DF call out to MIL, "It's lily, she found another mouse." (we had a mouse a week before) and he came home where we just cuddled. Told BB, then my mum, then everyone else via FB. This was all by about 5 weeks :lol: Didn't tell MIL until 12 or 13 weeks.
I have a thing for only testing with FMU, so unfortunately for DH I had to pee at 4:30am :lol: which then resulted in him being woken by my throwing the lights on and jumping on the bed waving a pee-stick in his face!
For the parents, we bought a baby photo frame and instead of a picture it had "Coming in March 2010, Baby C......" inside.
And finally, we met friends of ours out for dinner. We made sure we got there first and put place cards on the table reading "Aunty B....." and "Uncle D....." They loved it! I really liked that one too :)