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07-22-2012 at 11:25 AM
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creative ways you told your SO you were pregnant

How did you you tell your significant other that you were pregnant? I need some cute ideas! Thanks :)
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07-22-2012 at 11:40 AM
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My H is a police officer so I made him a "daddy doody" belt and put it where he keeps his "duty" belt.  I used a tool belt and put diapers, tongs, a paci, a bottle, anti-bac, etc. the in the little loops and holders.  
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07-22-2012 at 11:44 AM
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I gave him a fathers day card (it was like 2 weeks early) and had a cake ready when he got home from work, made him open the card to see what the celebration was for. He jumped up and down because he was so excited :)
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07-22-2012 at 11:52 AM
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cute ideas!
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07-22-2012 at 11:53 AM
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bought a bball jersey onsie. it was his fav team
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07-22-2012 at 1:27 PM
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With dd1 I bought a wooden baseball bat and a baseball. He was really confused when I gave them to him. Lol. I told him the ball was to teach our son to play catch and the bat was to protect our daughter from future boyfriends. 

With #2 I just ran into the bedroom and showed him the test. (we were ttc)

With this one, I put dd1 in a big sister t-shirt and waited for him to notice when he came home from work. It was super cute watching the realization hit him. :) 
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07-22-2012 at 1:43 PM
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I put a hotdog bun in the oven and told  him the oven was acting strange. He looked in and got the bun and I had the test in my hands. When I found out he was napping (of course!) so I got everything set up when he was asleep :)
 
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07-22-2012 at 2:18 PM
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Bliss+Berry:
My H is a police officer so I made him a "daddy doody" belt and put it where he keeps his "duty" belt.  I used a tool belt and put diapers, tongs, a paci, a bottle, anti-bac, etc. the in the little loops and holders.  

Ah! That is too freaking cute. I love that. 
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07-22-2012 at 2:20 PM
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My story will never be cute... I was crying and generally losing my shiit. I went out to the living room to talk to him, and I was a bundle of nerves. He asked me if I'm pregnant, I said "Yes. Go look at the test in the bathroom." He did and came back out with it.

Cute, huh? 
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07-22-2012 at 2:46 PM
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My story will never be cute... I was crying and generally losing my shiit. I went out to the living room to talk to him, and I was a bundle of nerves. He asked me if I'm pregnant, I said "Yes. Go look at the test in the bathroom." He did and came back out with it.

Cute, huh? 

 

Mine was more like this.... It was Friday night, I bought a growler of beer on the way home from work, and was bored while I waited for DH to get home from his run - it would have been rude to start drinking the beer with out him.  So I peed on a stick; honestly didnt think it would be positive.  DH came home right about the time that the 3 minutes for the test was up.  I was already freaking out because I saw the line quite quickly. So I came downstairs and DH was trying to tell me about how he ran into an old friend and I kind of just put the stick in his face.  He asked what it meant, I said it seemed pretty clear, I'd never taken a pregnancy test before, how was I supposed to know.

 

Then DH drank the growler of beer himself, while we called our parents. 
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07-22-2012 at 2:59 PM
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My husband is a huge Tampa Bay fan so I gave him a onesie that said, "Cutest Lil Bucs Fan"

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07-22-2012 at 3:16 PM
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I didn't plan it, but it ended up being quite funny. I didn't think I was pregnant, but I was late so I took a test, it was inconclusively strange so I took another and it said pregnant. DH was out of town, and I kind of panicked, with my last two pregnancies I just showed him the pee stick.

He flew home from Paris that night and had promised to get me some really nice wine. He walks in the door and hands me a bottle. I told him 'Thanks honey, but I can't drink this.'

 He got a heart broken look on his face and started explaining the grapes and vintage and why he chose it specifically for me, when I told him it was perfect, but I still couldn't drink it. 

(In his defense I had been pretty sure I wasn't pregnant as I had IB and thought my period had started and had told him about that three days earlier)

 

 
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07-22-2012 at 4:19 PM
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I told him to catch and I threw a "I love my daddy onsie" He looked confused at first and then read it and was like "seriously!" and I showed him the digi I took that said "pregnant". It was fun Smile
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07-22-2012 at 5:18 PM
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We call this LO Pumpkin.  I saw online about how some people put a bun in their oven and then get DH to open the oven.

I made a pumpkin pie, put it in the oven, and told him to get dinner out of the oven so I could run to the bathroom.  Instead I got the positive test and showed it to him as he was pulling the pie out.  He got it right away.  


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07-22-2012 at 7:45 PM
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The first time I woke him up in the middle of the night and threw the test at him...then I cried a little. I was scared because I was so overweight and already have chronic pain.

This time...I think I just said I was going to take a test then told him the line was pink. I took 6 more and the next day he asked if I was sure. I said yeah, I was sure. It wasn't cute or anything. It was really rather "blah". 


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07-22-2012 at 7:59 PM
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Yeah, I'm in the not cute category. With DS1 it went something like "oh sh...you knocked me up!!"
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07-25-2012 at 1:37 PM
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Two roses... one pink and one blue.  I was just stoked that the florist actually HAD blue roses the day I found out I was pregnant.  It was awesome!  He looked at the roses with a puzzled look on his face.... then a lightbulb went off! 
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07-28-2012 at 2:30 PM
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Well we had a role reversal lol I told him I was going to take a test just to rule it out because I hadn't been feeling good for a few days and I left the test in the bathroom waiting the three minutes while I made dinner. He walked in the bathroom, walked out kissed my forehead and said "I hope you have some names picked out" I stood there baffled and pissed because I thought he was kidding and a BFP is not something to kid about lol Then I flipped my shi* lol not cool that he found out before me but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles

I told my friends over facebook but posting the song "waiting on 2 pink lines" and posting a pic of the numerous BFP's :) 

Now when we find out the sex I plan on buying a little pair of blue or pink shoes and putting a bow on them that says Baby so-and-so will be here just in time for Christmas!  :) then putting that on FB cuz my world is on there lol

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08-04-2012 at 11:57 PM
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My DH and I took the approach of NTNP and referred to it as playing Russian Roulette to keep the pressure off.  When I ended up pregnant the second month off BC I got a bullet and wrapped it with a blue and pink ribbon, wrapped that and presented it to him.  Oddly enough he thought nothing of a random gift, midweek.  He pulled the bullet out examined it and couldn't believe it happened so quickly. I said, "You didn't dodge the bullet this month".  :)
 
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08-05-2012 at 12:03 AM
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I bombarded him in the bathroom immediately after he stepped out of the shower and shoved the test in his face, asking if he saw a line or if I was f'n crazy.

Super creative! Stick out tongue 

 

 
 
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08-14-2012 at 11:49 AM
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Hello, I wrote on my belly with eye liner Guess What? DADDY!! He was so happy.
 
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08-14-2012 at 8:32 PM
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I went to lunch with a couple of my friends while my hubby was at work. I had ordered a glass of wine and when it touched my tongue I had the worst urge to vomit. I thought this was very strange, as I LOVE wine. So strange in fact, I took a pregnancy test when I got home waiting on him to get home. I got my BFP and started jumping up and down laughing and crying at the same time. He walked in on me and I just pulled him from the door into the kitchen where the test was sitting on the counter and just pointed and laughed and smiled. He grabbed my belly and gave it a kiss. He made me take another test just to be sure. (there is no convincing a man that there is no such thing as a false positive)
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My husband was still sleeping while I took it, so he was in bed at the time. I told him I took the pregnancy test and asked him if he wanted to see the result. He said OK, and so I got it and brought it to him. I said, "It's "+" for pregnant!

 
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09-03-2012 at 12:46 PM
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That sounds a lot like how it would go in my household, lol. 
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09-11-2012 at 7:33 PM
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I'm not Preggo yet but I have a plan worked out, I bought one of those 'baby on board' signs that you stick on the car window, I plan on giving it to him when he comes home from work the day I find out. :) Testing in 2-3 days FX!!! 
 
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09-20-2012 at 12:52 PM
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We were on vacation and coming home the next day. I had taken the test a couple of hours before, we had packed our bags and were sitting out on the front porch. I started talking about all these things that we had decided that we needed to do in the house. So I said, we need to get the extra bedroom cleaned out soon...and put the extra light up in the hallway...and get a fan with a light to put up in the extra bedroom....since in nine months it is going to be the nursery. I just smiled after I said that and he kept looking out off the front porch. I gave it a second or two, it finally registered and he turned and looked at me. I gave him the test and he just smiled. I said, you're gonna be a daddy. He kept smiling and looking off the porch. I never got the reaction I wanted, the picking me up and spinning me around type reaction. But I could tell he was happy. Thats my husband though, always stoic and never bats an eye at anything twice. Happy sharing!
 
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10-05-2012 at 5:18 PM
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I didn't tell my husband. He told me. He was so insistent I was pregnant, from 2 weeks, 3 or 4 days, and I thought he was crazy. I didn't drink any alcohol, because of his insistence, and I'm glad I listened to him. I got a faint positive test at 3 weeks, and I couldn't see the line very well, so I asked for his verification. He said we were pregnant!
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jen-and-ryon:
How did you you tell your significant other that you were pregnant? I need some cute ideas! Thanks :)

Nothing cute over here. Threw the pee stick at him and said "We need to talk". lol

OP, your SN sounds familiar. I'm thinking we might have been on the tri boards together back in the day - Do you have an older LO? 

ETA: Oops. Just noticed this thread is from a few months ago... 
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I gave my husband a box that held a fortune cookie.i had already taken out the old fortune with tweezers.When he opened it he saw a hand written fortune that said "you are gonna be a daddy!"... All he could say was "wow" in disbelief for about 5 mins straight...This will be our first:-)
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I am not pregnant yet....that I am aware of.  However, I have already done my shopping.  I bought a gender neutral pair of baby shoes.  My husband and I always love looking at the tiny baby shoes.  I am hiding them in a cabinet and hopefully sometime soon I can take them out, wrap them, and surprise him with an early Christmas gift during dinner.  I am going to let the shoes speak for themselves.  
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