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Share the Joy
Unique Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy
By Kim Seidel
"After the test results indicated a positive pregnancy test, I woke my husband up and told him that his birthday present was in the bathroom on the counter," she says. "I had left the pregnancy test there for him to find. It was the best birthday present I could've given him, and he will always remember his 31st birthday!"
After more than 7 years, one miscarriage and many doses of Clomid between her first and second sons, Leanne Poellinger of La Crescent, Minn., believed she didn't need birth control. She figured wrong. On her 36th birthday, which happened to be April Fool's Day, she took a pregnancy test. "After a positive result, I spent the next several minutes on the floor in surprise and part of the afternoon at the clinic for a blood test, just to be sure," Poellinger says.
When she saw her husband that evening, she said something like, "I had an interesting April Fool's joke today. I'm pregnant." "He looked at me with a blank stare and said, 'Really?'" Poellinger says. "I replied, 'Yep, no joke.' Then I probably spent a few minutes on the floor again."
Their third son arrived that December. "He is, of course, a wonderful pleasure we can't imagine being without," Poellinger says.
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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!