There’s this sweet video of a young couple in a photo booth that’s been making the rounds. The man thinks he’s just there to snap some pictures and then the woman holds up a newborn hat with the word “baby” on it. He gets all weepy and there’s a lot of hugging (and it does go on, to be honest), and it’s clear that he is overwhelmed with joy and love.
Like I said, it’s a sweet video. Here it is in case you like that sort of thing.
It reminds me of the first time I told my husband I was pregnant.
I put a solitary bun in the oven before we sat down to eat. Then, during dinner, I exclaimed that I forgot something in the oven. Could he go get it?
He walked over, opened the oven door, took out the bun and placed it on the table without saying a word.
“It’s a bun in the oven,” I said.
“Yeah, I can see that,” he said. “I’m going for a walk.”
Then he left the apartment.
It was almost the same!
(Which goes to show you that you can be surprised, confused and even upset upon learning about a pregnancy and then go on to be a fantastic parent.)
Okay, let’s have them. What are your best “breaking the pregnancy” stories? You can share in the comments, on Facebook, Twitter or leave a link to your own blog. Whatever. It’s just for fun.
3 replies on “Sometimes breaking the news of a pregnancy is really sweet. Sometimes it isn’t.”
It was about a year ago. I had been trekking y really shitty and unlike myself. I was late, or not, I didn’t know. A few months earlier I had come off the Pill after five years on.
I had been coming home from work and going to bed, I was feeling that awful.
One night I remembered I had a pregnancy test that was kicking around the bathroom. It expired the month before, but I took it anyway. I waited three minutes and then saw two lines. The second one was really faint, but it was there.
Me: “Honey, can you come to the bathroom, please?”
Him: ” Can I come after this at bat?” (He was playing PlayStation.)
Me: “Ineedyoutocomehere. Rightnow.”
He judged I must be half pregnant due to the faint line. I told him it didn’t with that way.
I took three more tests before I got in for my doctor to confirm it.
That baby of ours didn’t make it, but I’ll always remember that night.
Half pregnant. Ha. Guys are so funny. I think I even remember negative pregnancy tests that I took. Such a big moment, no matter what.
With my first pregnancy, I made the wallpaper on his computer my positive pregnancy test. He sat there and stared at it for about fifteen minutes before turning to me and saying “really?” and then went back to staring at the screen. It was actually pretty freaking hilarious.
We’d been trying for over a year and a half… I think he’d just gotten so used to negative ones that he wasn’t really sure what he was seeing. :)