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Melissa: My first response when I found out I was pregnant was "Holy sh*t!" I had been feeling a bit sick and figured, "What the heck, I'll take a pregnancy test." I never really thought I would be pregnant. Well, imagine my surprise when my gynecologist told me I was three months pregnant. Ha! So much for being in tune with my body. |
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Andrea: My husband for some reason knew I was pregnant before I did. He told me I should get a pregnancy test. I told him he was being ridiculous. I was 39. The chances were slim at best. I guess he knew he's a potent fella because he was right. |
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Julie: I was in shock but sooooo excited! I cried. I wish I had this moment on videotape. My husband and I both were there looking at the lines on the stick. We hugged and kissed. It was one of the best moments of my life. |
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Jill: My first response when I found out I was pregnant was "Oh sh*t, I drank a lot of margaritas last night!" |
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Jackie: We had been trying for months. I woke up on a Saturday and took a test. I was so confused after seeing a positive result for the very first time, I called my girlfriend to make sure I was really pregnant! Not sure why I thought she would know since she was 3,000 miles away! |
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With my oldest I had gone to the doctor because I though I had a bladder infection. The doctor came into the room and said that he had good news and bad news he said the bad news was that I had a bladder infection and the good news was that I was pregnant. The first thing out of my mouth was, My period isn’t even due for three weeks I’m not late and he said well, your still pregnant. LOL. With my second I knew I was pregnant but kept having negative tests finally I had a positive test at almost four months I told my OB see I knew I was prgnant!
My husband and I decided the month before our wedding to start trying to conceive. Nothing happened in the first month; however, the month following the wedding, I started feeling funny. After taking 2 at home tests & getting negative results, I figured it was just a fluke. I had tracked my period and decided to take a test the morning of the day I should have started. The digital readout said “Pregnant” I, too, thought “Holy Sh!t” I was so nervous, excited and surprised, I emerged from the bathroom and just threw the test at my husband who was sound asleep!!! He is still “overly impressed” with my sweet way of telling him!
We were not trying to get pregnant. For several days I had a “funny feeling” and wondered if I were pregnant without ever venturing to say it out loud. With this in mind, I booked a short trip for my love and I to stay in a nice cabin in a nearby tourist town. I envisioned telling him in this lovely setting, with a few days all to ourselves to talk about the future. I bought a test that night, but waited until the morning to take it, knowing that if I found out I was pregnant, I would not be able to keep the news from him very long. I slept restlessly. In the morning, I took the test before showering. I surprised myself by mixing tears with the warm water coming from the faucet. I suppose I was overwhelmed and I didn’t really let myself access all the emotions that were flooding in until later. My intuitive soul mate could tell something was going on and kept asking if I was okay. I replied yes and said vaguely that I had a long day. Later that night, on the drive to our cabin getaway, we stopped for gasoline. He just couldn’t take it anymore and asked what was going on. I said, I will tell you later. He looked at me intensely and asked “are you pregnant?” I was so stunned that I just nodded. He hugged me and replied that we would have to get another Kartush, a pendant necklace from Qatar that we both had engraved with our names in English and Arabic. I wonder should I put a picture of that gas station in the baby book? Later, at the cabin we stared in wonder at the test that I brought with me, how could one little line mean so much? I have not told that story to anyone before. No one has ever asked.
We’d moved to Alameda, a little island in the San Francisco Bay just a few weeks ago. It was our first posting in the Coast Guard, and my husband had flown to San Diego to meet his boat, on its way to Central America just a few days before. He’d be out of range, and unable to communicate for at least two weeks. I didn’t know anyone in CG Housing, or the Bay area. I was lonely, and the weather wasn’t helping, as it was rainy season and the days had been relentlessly grey and dreary.
My incredibly punctual period had gone off track, and I hated waiting. I only bought the test to jumpstart it! (Everyone knows that the day after you give in and take it, you’ll start your period.) I genuinely believed that it would be negative. I even left it on the bathroom counter for an extra ten minutes while I brewed up yet another pot of coffee.
I went in to the bathroom and looked at the pee stick rather perfunctorily, and leaning toward the trash can suddenly jerked it back. “Oh. My. God.” I whispered. It took perhaps two, three seconds for my brain to catch up to my eyes, but it felt like hours, as though I’d been standing frozen there, in horror. When it finally sunk in, the world sped back up, and into hyper drive. I flung the stick across the house, and before it even cracked against the wall, I was charging upstairs. Ripping into my closet, I pulled out a sweatshirt, and tugged it on violently as I ran for the front door. My harsh gasps for air weren’t pulling in enough oxygen, and I felt dizzy, nauseous. Still I ran, through the post gates, down the sidewalk, across the two lane road and empty parking lot, the fine misty rain coating my face. I stopped, still in a panic, unable to go any further and stared dumbfounded at the aqueduct in front of me. I began a nearly unintelligible rant about the poor timing, my unsuitability as a parent, my school interview the next day.
How? We were so careful. We always… ohhh … there was that one time, on St. Patricks Day…
My husband was in Guatemala when I was finally able to tell him. His reaction? Utter joy. Total and complete joy.
Need I write about how I gradually came to that same feeling? Eventually, my fear subsided, and a strange feeling of humming happiness took its place.
My daughter is now four, and her middle name? Joy.
I remember thinking OMG, we are going to have a baby. I am really pregnant, now what. My husband was in the shower and I said, “Umm, honey. Guess what? We are going to have a baby!!!!!” He burst out of shower with tears in his eyes. He was so excited. I was so excited. We then started to plan how we would tell everyone. It was an awesome moment learning that you are carrying a little person in you. Wow.
I was shocked, an scared, and I cried my eyes out until my boyfriend calmed me down. I would ask for anything else in the world it has been thee best thing to ever happen to me!
last time I was in the er thinking I had the stomach flu because we were so careful haha
My husband’s response, “Where is this one going to live?”
I remember doing the “peeing”,(right before going to work) he did the reading….And his first response was “It’s a pretty shade of blue”. I was pregnant, and we were in shock. We worked together at the time and all day he referred to me as Mommy & I referred to him as Daddy. It was rather sweet :)
I remember doing the “peeing”,(right before going to work) he did the reading….And his first response was “It’s a pretty shade of blue”. I was pregnant, and we were in shock. We worked together at the time and all day he referred to me as Mommy & I referred to him as Daddy. It was rather sweet :)
OOPS~forgot to put my name…LOL
My husband and I decided to try for one more kiddo, which would make it number 4! We already have a 14 year old son, 9 year old daughter and a 5 year old son.
So I had the IUD removed in September and the Dr. told me that it would most likely be 6 months or more before I got pregnant. At the beginning of December I was feeling a little queasy and thought I was probably getting the flu, but thought I would just stop in at the store and get a test after my hair appointment.
I’ll be darned if that Dr. wasn’t WAY OFF in his “guesstimate” of how long it would take! The test was positive and I was so overwhelmed with excitement that I actually did get sick. Good thing I was already in the bathroom! I had gotten pregnant in November and we are expecting our new little boy this August!
I have been crabby for days. and My husband kept telling me you will get your period tmw. over and over. and I told him nothing just yet. and He was like.. nothing for a month. and He bought 2 test for me to check out, He thinks that Im pregnant. which I dont think so. I dont feel anything different. So, He is right. Im pregnant. and He said I told you so. lol. I was laughing. Man. he knows than I do! We went to appointment and we didnt know for 3 months. and we been pregnant for 3 months. and we are due this dec 10th. yay.. hoping for a boy. and yeah, I was baffled. haha.
My husband, best friend and I were on our way back from a restauant/movie theater, when I busted out with “lets stop for icecream”! I picked up three different flavors and put them in the cart. My friend looked at me and said “maybe you should pick up a pregnacy test too, just to be sure”! I took her advice and found out I was preg as soon as we got to my house! My first response - I CRIED! I was upset that I had a margarita at diner!
First Response said negative but I knew I felt different so I went to the doctor and the test there was positive!I dont recommend using First Response.
My fiancee (now husband) and I picked up a pregnancy test on the way home from my great grandmother’s wake (she had died the day before). We saw his best friend’s car in the parking lot, so I had to sneak around the Target so as not to be seen buying a preggo test. Then we picked up burgers on the way home. Our wedding was in 2 weeks, so when the test came up positive my first thought was, “At least the dress will still fit.” Then as the reality set in I was completely overwhelmed. A funeral, a wedding, and news of a baby all in a 2-week period! I was too nauseous to finish the burger!