best way to tell someone your pregnant?

United States
June 21, 2010 11:37pm CST
if you have kids how did you tell your other half you were pregnant? were they shocked or surprised? when i was pregnant with my oldest her dad knew before i did i was in shock. so how did you tell that other half you were pregnant? i want to hear your stories on how u broke the news?
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
22 Jun 10
Both times that I was pregnant, I told my husband that I suspected it and then he sat with me after I did the stick test so that we would be able to find out the results together at the same time. I've seen some people that are very creative with the way that they let their spouses know that they are pregnant, but I suppose that I'm not at all creative when it comes to these kinds of things. I really liked having the support of my husband from the moment that I found out though.
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
22 Jun 10
I was alone with my first pregnancy but had to tell my family, which was hard. I told my mom first and probably would never have told my dad had I not been cornered into it. As soon as I did tell my dad, though, I knew what I had to do and called the adoption agency to arrange for the adoption right away. My second pregnancy I was engaged to the guy and we were arguing. I was seriously having doubts about marrying him and kind of blurted it out as a challenge to him as if it were the reason I should stay. That baby never survived the first trimester, thanks to my husband. With my daughter, I was with a man who had sworn his undying love and swore he wanted to marry me. I asked him what he would do if I was pregnant and he got upset and told me not to ever mention that again. When I finally knew for sure, I told him for sure and suddenly I was a "complication" in his life so he sent me packing. When I was leaving town, we had a final dinner together and I asked him, "What about the baby?" He said, "I'm torn." I thought, good. I hope you tear yourself in two like Rumpelstiltskin. LOL...He was the loser, though. I have a wonderful daughter and he missed out on all of it.
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• Philippines
22 Jul 10
when i was still with my bf and missed my period i already told him that maybe im pregnant and he told me to go to the doctor but i was very busy that time with work so i only went to doctor when my period missed in 2 months. my bf was so angry with me and told me he will not going to talk to me if i did not go to the doctor, so on the 2nd month i go there and its positive, i immediately called him since he was out of town for work and he was happy to know, i also called my other friends and told them im pregnant then to my family. they are not shocked but happy of course. when my bf left me i was very upset but my friend and family was there for me.
• United States
28 Jun 10
My husband had told me for about a week that I was pregnant. I kept telling him to quit saying it because I had taken so many pregnancy test in the past that came out negative I was about ready to give up. When I took the one that came up positive, I was in the bathroom with the door locked and was waiting for the result. It literally seemed like it took an eternity. I looked, negative. I looked, still negative. A minute later, still negative. Then when I was about to throw it away I looked over and a very faint 2nd line had showed up indicating that I was pregnant!!! I was so happy I yelled for my husband who was frantically trying to get the door open and I had forgotten I'd locked it. When he walked in, I said, "We're pregnant!" and we cried tears of joy and hugged one another. It's still funny thinking about how he was trying to get that door open. lol