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Share the Joy
Unique Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy
By Kim Seidel
It was the fourth pregnancy for Sandra Martin of Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada, when sharing the news with her husband Dominique was especially remarkable. "I was in a new marriage, and my husband didn't have children of his own," she says. "Because I was older, it took a while, and finally, with the help of fertility pills, I was able to conceive."
After she saw the positive results on the pregnancy test, she bought a book on pregnancy and parenting for dads to give to Dominique. "That evening, I gave him the book and said that he had seven months to read up on everything," Martin says. "Needless to say, he was shocked that it finally happened and overcome with emotion."
Menelli didn't quite know how to tell her husband, Ron, about the double discovery when she returned home. She started by telling him to sit down, because she had something important to talk to him about. He knew she had seen her midwife that morning, and he could tell from his wife's tone that the news wasn't horrible. He guessed immediately that they were having twins. "He didn't even sit down," Menelli says.
Ron's brothers and two of his cousins are identical twins, so Sheri says Ron instinctively knew about his own twins on the way. The couple's twin daughters were born this winter.
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Unique Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy by Anonymous on 11/02/2009 08:40PM
When my husband & I bought our house, he wanted to put up a basketball hoop. I told him he had to wait until we had kids. He responded jokingly that the minute he found out we were expecting he would go buy one. The day I found out we were pregnant I went out & bought him a basketball. The look on his face was priceless & his comment was, "really, you are?" Best day ever!!
Unique Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy by Anonymous on 07/01/2009 12:38AM
We announced our pregnancy at the family Christmas at my husband's mother's house by putting the possitive test in a bracelet box & wrapping it like a present with her name on it. You should've seen the look on her face!
Share the Joy by Anonymous on 05/20/2009 10:44PM
I am pregnant, and I am planning on telling my husband the good news in a special way. I have decided to purchase a pair of the little baby shoes and place them next to my husband shoes along with a little shirt & pants that I will hang right next to his suit. Let's see if that is a big enough clue that we are expecting. I can't wait to see his reaction. We have been waiting so long for this day.
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Unique Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy by Kellie on 12/07/2009 10:29PM
My husband and I found out we were pregnant the 5 of december so we decided we wanted a creative way to tell our families and know that they dont expect it because we already have 1 daughter and they will be 18 months apart, we are going to wait til christmas to tell them and we are going to get a christmas stocking that says babies first christmas 2010 on it and hang it up christmas morning!