Husband/Partner Reactions :)

Hi all,

For all those ladies have had/ are having babies, how did your DP's/DH's react when you told them you were pregnant? Was watching a show called a baby story and this one father had a very funny reaction which just made me think. Both times i told DP he was just speechless with smiles.

I recall mine almost cried with joy the first time .. then almost cried with fear the next time (obviously our first wasnt the most pleasant baby)

Haha First time I did the HPT right before bed and I told him to which he said 'really!' dont think he slept very well (just shock we had been trying for about 13 months) and second time i woke him up in the morning and asked if he could see the line or was it just me? He held it to the light and said 'yeah, i see it' then went and made a coffee lol Not a man of many words lol but i know how excited he was both times

DH was great - i greeted him at the window where he parks his ute with a grin asking him to come inside first (he normally lets the dogs out on his way inside). Once inside I asked him to check the bathroom (I'd left the test on the vanity) he knes straight away. All i got was a 'thats good aye!' lol hows that for an understatement.
Though he kept going into the bathroom to check during the evening, at one point he asked what 3 lines meant - twins? Lucky he was only teasing but twins run in my family so its not that funny (I'm quite small, just like our house)

Hehe, my DP went very quiet and I'm quite glad I told him it was possible I was pregnant the first time while walking into town so he had something to concentrate on doing (very unexpected baby).

And for the 2nd he was cleaning the oven at the time and snapped at me cause I was getting in the way, plus we were both convinced it would take ages and he was hoping it would take longer.

ETA: the second time round he wouldn't believe that the test at home was "good enough" so I had to go to the doctors that very day to double check, all they did was give me another test to pee on...... It looked EXACTLY the same as the one I just did at home lol.

Edited by Kalimirella

lilfatty wrote: I recall mine almost cried with joy the first time .. then almost cried with fear the next time (obviously our first wasnt the most pleasant baby)

haha yep about the same here!!

He pushed me into testing given I was sent home from work for gagging and having to run away and vomit if someone was buying pet food or raw fish (i was a checkout operator)
But when I did the actual test his reaction was exactly one suitable to post on here but the basis of it was "but your on the depo and we had sex like once cos of all the bleeding you had"
but once that wore off quickly and he got excited.
he woke me up out of no-where the night it was confirmed by midwife to tell me baby was going to be called Lukah

#1 was more or less of an 'oh #$%^, what are we going to do now' (he wasnt ready for baby and at 19 I wasnt either, but due to personal beliefs there wasnt much else I could do!)

#2 DP thought he was 'the man' and sent his mum a text immediately after I rang him with the news (we'd been trying for some time, had 2 early mc's and had been told less than 2 months earlier that we'd need to go on the IVF waiting list)

#3 and I quote "You're s#$%ting me!" after only 8 months TTC neither of us expected to have concieved just yet given how long it took to get DD! He was thrilled and held off all of 3 days before telling everyone (so much for agreeing to wait til after scan! His family weren't too impressed as they were expecting me to return to work)

With McKayla: He was sitting at the computer and I told him the test was positive and he said Oh and continued on with his things. Told him again and he said we will have to wait and see first. Tried to tell him it was different. And he said we should wait. (we had a few mc's before this.). He is the one that made an apointment with the Dr for us. But then two days later I start with bleeding and I got negative and he was the one that turned around and as positive and told me that I told him that this time is different. And it was.

With Andrew: I called him at work as McKayla told us that I am pregnant. I took a test to show her that I wasnt and I was shocked to see it was. Grant was laughing that I first of all took a test to prove to our girl that she is wrong and second of all that I had to apologize to our girl. Much happier the second time around.

Our first was IVF, so much as you'd expect. Our second, it was actually me that was away with the fairies - he made me buy a test and do it (made me get a 3 pack too - what a waste of money ), I b*ggered around a half a day before doing it (obviously, I wasn't pregnant so no rush ) then I did it upside down and cheerfully announced he was wrong-burger, before realising that there were no lines at all (it was a pee in the cup one, and I stuck the stick in upside down ) ... so I b*ggered around for another day before doing another one that came up with 2 veeery clear lines. It took about another 2 weeks to sink in after that