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Post by babystandish on Jan 25, 2019 17:52:01 GMT -6
Since people are talking about how they told their SO. How did you tell your SO? How about family? And do you plan on announcing to the world?
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Post by babystandish on Jan 25, 2019 17:54:48 GMT -6
I have a tank that says “I’d be a lot faster if I wasn’t so freaking pregnant” so I put that on and walked right up to H and made him read it. I told my parents via FaceTime...nothing special. We will wait til 2nd tri to tell H’s family although we may tell his dad on Feb 9th since he’s coming into town and visiting us. No idea about social media announcement or anything yet. Need to get through our first couple appointments first.
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Post by cmb on Jan 25, 2019 18:08:47 GMT -6
DH- I was going to leave it in the bathroom with a note of “here we go again...” with arrows pointing to the second line, but ended up not. I ended up sticking the stick in my robe pocket and gave it to him in the kitchen. I poured him a beer, handed him said beer while shoving the stick in his face and telling him “welp, here we go again. I don’t think this is what they meant when they said try again!”
Family- they’ll get a photo of DS2 in a “prompted to big brother” shirt. Nothing fancy. They won’t know for another 6-8 weeks.
SM- we only do a single announcement later down the road when all the tests are done. Not sure what we’ll do. We did Harry Potter for announcing DS2 on Halloween.
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Post by cateyes on Jan 25, 2019 18:30:04 GMT -6
DH-Walked up while he was weighing himself and said, sounds like I will be gaining weight as you lose it and shoved the stick at him. Took a few minutes and he was totally shocked given our history. Then I apologized for not having some big elaborate set up like last time and that I only had like 5 minutes to plan instead of 3 years 😂
Family-We just told family today by having E “show off his new tricks” pointing to each person and then asked where’s baby? He then pointed to my belly. It took everyone a minute but then they were super excited.
We plan to tell the world/Facebook land around 12 weeks after the NT scan.
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Post by randomosity on Jan 25, 2019 19:41:53 GMT -6
My husband: I took a FRER and showed it to him. Nothing too creative!
Family: I'm not sure. Im sure I'll have to tell my mom whenever m/s kicks in because I have a history of severe m/s and it's hard to hide. I think I'm going to let most of our family find out via social media sometime during second tri. I'm not really into the idea of calling family to tell them myself because of the reactions we got when we announced our third. I guess 2 kids is the only acceptable number of kids to have? 🙄 I'm planning to make shirts for the kids with my silhouette machine and then I'll get a picture of them wearing them, holding up baby #4's and post that to social media. I'm irrationally excited for that!
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Post by marshian on Jan 25, 2019 22:04:20 GMT -6
Husband: Repeated how I told him for our first (J, 18m) since he didn't get it then until I showed him the sticks. I made a "Full House" dinner like Becky did for Uncle Jesse. Baby back ribs, baby carrots, baby potatoes, baby corn. This time he knew it as soon as he saw it! I also handmade him a card which said "You were right!" since he said we could get KU when we DTD and I told him it was super unlikely (because by temps I thought I had O'd already). Then we just both ate dinner in shock.
Family: Not sure. We told mine at 8 weeks last time after we got the first ultrasound and it was viable and all good. We took a photo of us with baby gear and trying to figure it out and showed it to them while we were on Skype. Told H's at 10 weeks when we were with them for Thanksgiving. We wore skeleton shirts and mine had a baby and it took them all a good 30 minutes to understand. I'm tempted to tell mine earlier but not sure yet.
Social media: We don't do announcements on SM. No judgment to those who do (I like seeing them!).
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Post by peggyhill on Jan 26, 2019 10:12:34 GMT -6
Our timing had been really bad, and I’d been getting testing done for infertility. I had just bought a huge box of 50 LH tests and 20 HCG tests, woke up the next morning with a super full bladder and thought “ do I really have to take a test? It’s going to be negative, I just want to pee like normal and go back to bed...” But I took the test anyways, and got a line. I was half asleep, my hair was a mess, and I went into his office and said “ I think we did it....” and showed him the test. Just in time to not need all those damn tests! I think we’ll just call up my folks and tell them since they’re long distance, we’ll tell his parents in person. Probably will just say “hey guess what?” As for SM, I’m not sure yet. Haven’t gotten that far!
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Post by jess86 on Jan 27, 2019 21:03:22 GMT -6
I wrapped up a “big brother” shirt for my son and gave it to MH.
I told my mom a week ago as we left on vacation together. I said “so when do you want my news” and she asked if I was pregnant. Lol
Some coworkers figured it out because I asked if a restaurant’s feta was pasteurized. Another one guess because I said her chapstick was very strong smelling. Lol
Also told the people we’re on vacation with, mainly because they would notice that I wasn’t drinking.
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Post by goldenlove on Jan 28, 2019 15:44:50 GMT -6
This was our second FET trying for #2. The first one we waited for the beta results and had to hear it was negative with a voicemail message. This time around I asked H if we should test on our so we bought tests while at Target. I got up early to pee and took the test and a strong line popped up right away. I went back to bed and was going to just go back to sleep but I heard H stir so I asked if he was awake. He said yes so I told him the test was positive. He later told me he wasn't really awake so it took him a minute for it to click lol.
For our families, I think we're going to tell next weekend after our final appointment with the RE. We got DS a big brother shirt for that.
Haven't thought about SM too much yet. With DS I didn't say anything but FB outed me when I marked "interested" on a prenatal yoga class and it shared that with the world. I was forced to announce after people were congratulating me on the event page. I hate FB lol
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Post by marshian on Jan 28, 2019 15:53:15 GMT -6
This was our second FET trying for #2. The first one we waited for the beta results and had to hear it was negative with a voicemail message. This time around I asked H if we should test on our so we bought tests while at Target. I got up early to pee and took the test and a strong line popped up right away. I went back to bed and was going to just go back to sleep but I heard H stir so I asked if he was awake. He said yes so I told him the test was positive. He later told me he wasn't really awake so it took him a minute for it to click lol. For our families, I think we're going to tell next weekend after our final appointment with the RE. We got DS a big brother shirt for that. Haven't thought about SM too much yet. With DS I didn't say anything but FB outed me when I marked "interested" on a prenatal yoga class and it shared that with the world. I was forced to announce after people were congratulating me on the event page. I hate FB lol Ugh, FB!
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Post by fikafairy on Jan 30, 2019 8:21:54 GMT -6
Well this was a surprise for us, and so far I have told my DH, my siblings, and my immediate supervisor at work - she's a good friend and great support, plus with all the appointments I will have, I needed them to know. I just found out officially yesterday, because I actually took two tests over the weekend, one mid-day Sunday and one Monday, both with shadows that I couldn't convince myself wasn't evap lines since I couldn't really see color. Anyway, I took two different tests yesterday (one FRER and one wondfo) and both came back with CLEAR lines. I was actually up a full hour before H woke up, and needed a couple minutes to process it myself. My original plan was going to change his lock screen to the image here, but when our DS woke up and my H woke up, he told me he had this really vivid dream about us being in the hospital waiting for our new arrival. We have been talking about babies for a LONG time because of our history, so when he said that I switched plans. I texted the picture to him instead while we were sitting there, and he opened it immediately and went WHAT. The inside joke to all this is that we have been calling our next kid Skywalker (we are Star Wars fans) and H actually joked if we had twins they would be Luke and Leia - which was vetoed. We haven't talked about announcements to the world yet, we need to make it a bit further first and find out around 14-16 weeks if we are going to be dealing with the same complications or not. We are going to tell my parents this weekend, and need to think about how to do that.
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Post by sundog on Jan 30, 2019 10:56:03 GMT -6
I wish I could have done something fun to tell H, but this caught me off guard. My H was out with the kids when I took a test and saw a faint line, so I called him freaking out telling him to come home and look at the test. I thought I was crazy! It still doesn’t feel real yet- I’ve been staring at the tests in disbelief, haha.
My parents and one good friend know, because I was just so anxious to tell someone else. We won’t tell the rest of the world for a while as a precaution. Maybe after the anatomy scan.
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Post by moonandback141 on Jan 30, 2019 21:07:59 GMT -6
I called DH at work and told him he needed to come home real quick to help me with something. When he walked in, I pointed in the bathroom to the test and I set a Number 3 from a Melissa & Doug numbers puzzle next to it ha.
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Post by kalirn on Feb 2, 2019 17:37:08 GMT -6
I took DH a vvvfl and asked if he could see it. I then ran out to get a frer and brought it downstairs and screamed like a little girl. My in laws were outside and heard so we showed them the test right away. I’m pregnant with the only frostie from my DE IVF cycle in the Czech Republic in 2016. So no creative announcements. We called my parents and our siblings.
SM will be later down the road. Not sure if we will do something cute or not. I’ll see how I feel then. I’m fully anticipating to have HG again so it will all depend.
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Post by thinkchocolate05 on Feb 3, 2019 6:41:20 GMT -6
My dh was sitting at the dinner table and both kids were being awful, so I marched out of the bathroom and asked him if he was stressed out now. He saw the box of tests was missing from the countertop and started laughing. I told my SIL via text bc she is emotional support.
The rest of the family I will wait until either an ultrasound with a good heartbeat or until 12 weeks. In my family we usually do a group text with an ultrasound pic.
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Post by marshian on Feb 4, 2019 14:01:15 GMT -6
fikafairy I'm a Star Wars fan too! Love that pic!
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Post by marshian on Feb 4, 2019 14:49:12 GMT -6
I just ordered this shirt to put J (DD) in when we tell our families via Skype after my dating ultrasound in a few weeks. We'll see how long it takes them to see it. I might put her in a cardigan (cover up the back) at first then take it off since she usually runs around.
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Post by marshian on Feb 4, 2019 14:51:43 GMT -6
Help, why won't my picture show? I used the Insert Image button.
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Post by goldenlove on Feb 4, 2019 17:32:56 GMT -6
Help, why won't my picture show? I used the Insert Image button. You need to make sure it's the image file and says .gif or .jpg or whatever. Usually you can just right click on the image and copy it.
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Post by marshian on Feb 4, 2019 18:35:21 GMT -6
Help, why won't my picture show? I used the Insert Image button. You need to make sure it's the image file and says .gif or .jpg or whatever. Usually you can just right click on the image and copy it. Fixed it. Clearly been a while since I did this, haha
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Post by goldenlove on Feb 4, 2019 19:38:23 GMT -6
You need to make sure it's the image file and says .gif or .jpg or whatever. Usually you can just right click on the image and copy it. Fixed it. Clearly been a while since I did this, haha Love the shirt!!
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