Tell us about your DH/SO

[dke2010]

Where/how did you meet?

How long have you been together?

How did you announce your pregnancy to them?

Tell us something interesting about them...

[WittyLittle]

Awwww I always love SO threads. They make me melt

Where/how did you meet?
I used to live in a student house during my masters. My Greek housemate decided to throw a party. In the afternoon of party day he came up to my other housemate and I and told us that he had to leave because he had to go visit his girlfriend, so he couldn't do the party. He hadn't prepared ANYTHING. no drinks, no snacks. NOTHING. So my housemate and I did everything, got prepared, ran around likely monkeys and were just going to move the furniture when now DH walked in to the room with his twin brother. He's never been early/on time to ANYTHING so this is still strange to me We got to talking and never really stopped

How long have you been together?
Six years and married 1 1/2 years

How did you announce your pregnancy to them?
With DS I woke him up sticking a still wet pee stick in his face
With my last MC I put a bib on DS saying big brother.
This time the squinters process was so long that he was very unromantically involved in saying 'are we? aren't we?' along with my mom

Tell us something interesting about them...
DH studied to be an accountant but then decided to become a pro jazz drummer instead. It's his life's passion and he's made a business with teaching and playing gigs. So proud of him for following his dream. He's a sucky accountant, though

[britta]

DH and I met at work. He's a PA and I'm an RN and we work within the same department. We hung out with the same group of friends outside of work, which is how are relationship grew past professional.

We've been together for almost 7 years. We don't really have a dating anniversary because we were friends first and just gradually stopped hanging with the group and spending more time alone. I *think* our first "date" alone was in June 2009.

He was in the shower when I POAS. I left the positive test on the counter so he would see it when he got out. Once he was all ready for work, he came back into the bedroom and said "I saw your little pee stick" and then gave me a hug.

ETA Like I said, DH is a PA. His (our) specialty is cardiac surgery. The hospital we work at puts on a 2 day conference every February on Cardiovascular disease/treatments/etc. H was asked to be a presenter this year. I'm kinda proud. He's kinda annoyed. LOL.

[dke2010]

I'll start!
ETA: (or not!)

Where/how did you meet? DH and I met during high school at a bowling alley. We were both homeschooled at the time and mutual friends introduced us.

How long have you been together? We met when I was 16 and DH was 17. Then we dated and were engaged for a total of 4 years. We got married in 2010, so this year will be our sixth anniversary.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? Well, DH already knew I was testing so it wasn't a big surprise. IF kind of took the fun out of announcing.
With DD, I got my BFP on Thanksgiving Day and he didn't know I was testing. I wrapped up the pee stick and a onsie as a "Thanksgiving gift". He had a look of horror on his face when I handed it to him because he didn't know we were doing "Thanksgiving gifts" and he thought I'd be disappointed that he didn't get me something, lol! Needless to say, I was the opposite of disappointed and he was thrilled about the news.

Tell us something interesting about them... DH test runs jet engines for a living. He's also crazy about keeping his car clean and washes it all the time.

[kaliRN]

I'll play!

Where did we meet? We first met in Pathophysiology. He was in the seat ahead of me and would pass notes to his friend (who was a girl) and my friend and I talked about them and wondered if they were together. At this point we had no interest in eachother. The next semester we were in microbiology together and he skipped a couple classes for work. I decided to be nice and lent him my notes but exchanged numbers so I could get them back before the test. We started texting and then flirting. I invited him to a study group my friend and I were having and my friend bowed out at the last minute (like a good friend should!) We studied for an hour and then made out for the following 2 lol. We've been together ever since.

How long have we been together? Nearly 8 years. We've been married 3.5.

How did I announce my pregnancy? Well when you fly across the world to get pregnant with someone else's egg you take all the surprise out of it. As soon as the plane landed we raced home and tested. He was standing right next to me when the test turned positive and then we jumped around screaming and laughing and holding eachother.

Something interesting about DH.... Hmm well he's very talented in a lot of ways. He's an amazing painter and his artwork is hung all over our house. He's super handy and has remodeled our house and it looks perfect. He's brilliant and knows so much about everything- literally. He's kind of a jack of all trades. He seems to be able to do it all (sometimes with my help )

[penguin129]

Where/how did you meet? We met at the daycare we both worked at. My first day there I was cleaning a bathroom at the end of the day and he was checking on how closing was going in the rooms. He peeked in the bathroom and told me I was cleaning it wrong according to the boss. I told him I'd been cleaning toilets for a long time and I wasn't going to change the way I cleaned them.

How long have you been together? Almost 6 years. Married for just over 4.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? H knew I was testing with DD and wanted me to do it while he was home and tell him right away. I ended up testing when he was at work and got a squinter. The next morning I tested again when he was home and got a slightly darker line so I told him right away. This time I tested while he was at work and when we talked on the phone on his way home I asked him if he could come home first before going to visit his Grandma. I told him I'd like to tell him in person and he asked if I was pregnant. I told him I was.

Tell us something interesting about them... H takes great pictures of nature and just about anything else. He could easily be added as a character in Big Bang Theory because he always get what they are talking about.

[k2tog]

Where/how did you meet? We met at church! I had broken up with a guy I dated for 2.5 years about 6 months prior because he wasn't a Christian and my faith was becoming more important to me. I had a bit of a rebound, and when that ended, I was pretty determined to find someone from my own church background. We were both students and our paths didn't always cross at church. I had seen him there in the past, but never introduced myself. One Sunday towards the end of the fall semester, he was there, standing with a friend of mine, having coffee after church and I walked right up and introduced myself. Then, I added him on Facebook after the service and we started talking and haven't stopped since. We had our first date 2 weeks later in the middle of exams, but he was moving to a new town 2 hours away for a co-op term in January. I guess we both decided that the potential of the relationship was important enough because we saw each other every weekend over the winter semester and every single day once we were back in the same city. We got engaged 8 months after we met and 8 months after that.

How long have you been together? 7.5 years, almost 6 years married.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? He knew I was testing. It was 5:45 am. I was peeing on a stick while he was trying to coax DD back to sleep. I just slipped into DD's room and told him she was going to be a big sister. We tested together when we had DD too. So, no special announcement.

Tell us something interesting about them... DH is the driving force in me going back to school. He saw how unhappy I was in my job and encouraged me to go and constantly reassures me that we can afford it and it will be worth it and even if I don't get the dream job out of it, it will be fine. He's so supportive. I couldn't have found a better person to share my life with.

[ellabee]

Where/how did you meet?
At college. He was the handsome Junior at a party when I was a freshman.

How long have you been together?
12 years, married 5.5 (Wow, it's been a while since I've done out the math. Time just flies...)

How did you announce your pregnancy to them?
I'm not very creative when it comes to announcements. Both times I basically just showed him the test with a big grin.

Tell us something interesting about them...
DH's family is in real estate and he grew up with his parents buying/renovating/selling/living in multi family homes. I was a suburbia single family kinda gal before we met. He worked for several years to show me about how much multi-families make sense. After much convincing, I was converted. We now own a 3 family and live in another 2 family. Both properties will be cash-flow positive (when we get them rented, since we are just finishing up renovations now). This gives us the financial ability to have DH keep his lower paying super flexible physics professor-ship which gives him enough time on the side for other consulting work while still being super hands on with DD. He's the tits.

[jwinct]

Where/how did you meet? We met via Match, the popular online dating website

How long have you been together? We have been together for 14 years; married for almost 12 years

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I didn't tell him I was testing, but it was very unromantic. I tested when I got home from work. I thought for sure AF was coming, but wanted to make sure before I deployed my plan to guzzle a lot of wine that night. I couldn't believe it when I saw a faint line, so I peed on another Wandfo and a digital and they all came back positive. I shoved them into my shirt (for fear of encountering one of our kids) and ran downstairs into the kitchen and basically shoved them in his face. I couldn't even say anything because I was in shock.

Tell us something interesting about them... He was legally adopted in his late 20s. We went to court and then we all went out to dinner that night to celebrate. It was so much fun.

[aggiefrau08]

Where/how did you meet? We met at a high school speech & debate tournament when he came up to me and asked if my eyes were blue. I said that that was pretty obvious and he responded, "Not to me. I'm colorblind." We got to talking and found that we had a lot in common and really liked each other, and we've been together ever since!

How long have you been together? 12 years together, 8 years married this June.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? Showed him the stick. I'm not patient enough to figure out some fun way to tell him!

Tell us something interesting about them... He is really good with computers and has even built his own rigs!

[becole]

My H and I met in college, first in class, and a few years later at a party. We've been together almost 10 years and married for 7.5 years.
With the first, I shoved a pee stick. The second, I tried to find a big brother shirt, but couldn't so I made him a Valentine's Day card that said "Roses are red, violets are blue, Cupid's been busy, you're a father of 2." I taped him opening the card, which was hilarious because DS kept trying to take it from him.
Interesting fact. He's a twin and he and his brother shared a room (even through college) pretty much until he moved in with me. It was an adjustment for him. Lol.

[orangepickle]

Where/how did you meet?
Both on vacation in New York

How long have you been together?
10 years, married for almost 5

How did you announce your pregnancy to them?
Came out of the bathroom with my pee stick saying "does this look like a line?" because it was still quite faint then

Tell us something interesting about them...
He has a Bachelors degree in classical guitar and spent 10 years as a guitar teacher but quit last year to get a 9-5, which he actually loves

[smallpotato]

Where/how did you meet?

We met in college during the spring semester of my freshman year. He replaced one of the RAs in my building. We hung out a bit, but he wasn't my type (he likes hunting and camping and outdoorsy stuff, and I...don't). The following fall, I was hired as an RA, and was on staff with his best friend. One night during Labor Day weekend, I couldn't sleep, so I invited myself over to his room to watch a movie. He's the only person I know who would start "Saving Private Ryan" at 2:30AM. Ten days later, 9/11 happened, and I knew I was going to spend the rest of my life with him, as clichéd as that sounds.

How long have you been together?

15 years together in September, 8 married in November.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them?

He knew I was testing, so he left me alone in the bathroom to get ready for work. I came out and told him I thought I saw two lines. He came in, saw it, and said he saw them too. I was in shock, and he was ecstatic. He kept saying birthday due date, because my due date is his birthday.

Tell us something interesting about them...

After he left for college, my in-laws sold their house in Philly to move to the suburbs. MH claims they forgot to give him the address, so the first time he went home after the move, he wasn't sure where to go. When he was living at home on breaks, he shared a room with his brother, who is almost 15 years younger than him.

[adouces06]

Where/how did you meet? In college.

How long have you been together? 6 years, but we have been really good friends for 10.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I just called him at work and told him. Nothing exciting.

Tell us something interesting about them... He works as a manager at a grocery store, and he has been with the company for 12 years. He started as a bagger!

[littlelanes]

Where/how did you meet? At a anti-valentines day party.

How long have you been together? 8 years

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I had DD wear a "Big Sister" shirt and walk downstairs. He already knew though because of my POAS addiction. Haha.

Tell us something interesting about them...
He's way better at the parenting thing than me, he's really good at sports betting, and he is 25% Korean, but looks 100% Hispanic.

[macaronmama]

Where/how did you meet? My freshman year of college, a close friend who was two years older came bounding into my dorm room with a picture of his little brother who had just accepted a position at our school. I was a huge flirt and joked that when said little bro showed up, I'd seduce him. Lo and behold, eight months later in the fall of sophomore year, we fell head overs heels in love. BIL still stakes his claim that he knew me longer and was my brother before DH was my husband (true, I did call BIL my brother before I met DH).

How long have you been together? 10 years together, almost 7 years married.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? Nothing exciting. I gave into crazy train thoughts and tested 9DPO. There was a faint line, so faint, we weren't sure saw it. I kept testing and it got darker, and DH decided I wasn't really pregnant so we had to go out and get a digital test to prove it. His face just lit up when the test said "YES +"

Tell us something interesting about them... DH grew up privileged. Not like Richie-Rich, but enough that he thought our apartment came with a built in vacuum because his house had one it in (SERIOUSLY). I've taught him the value of certain brands vs. generic, as well as savings, etc. He had never done his own taxes before - didn't know what a W-2 was even though he'd had jobs before. We're still going to be well-off when the family trust eventually comes down to him and his brother, but at least I know our kids aren't going to have the glaring gaps they did.

[ksyknelvr73]

Where/how did you meet? We were set up through my cousin and his best friend (who were engaged at the time, now married) at a softball game.

How long have you been together? Our dating anniversary is in May and it will be 10 years, we've been married for almost 8.5 - we got married pretty quickly

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I texted him "I'm pregnant". He didn't even believe me. I don't do cute things to tell him b/c I really keep him in the loop so he already knows when I am testing anyway.

Tell us something interesting about them... He's a great dad and he is the one who would have a million kids. He teaches high school social studies and he's a head baseball coach.

[sanibel21]

Where/how did you meet? Match

How long have you been together? together almost 9 years, married almost 4 years

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I just came downstairs and told him, nothing romantic.

Tell us something interesting about them... He's extremely laid back (opposite of me) and just so supportive. I'm really lucky.

[jillian]

Where/how did you meet? We worked together at a law firm for a year before getting together.

How long have you been together? Together 11 years, married 8 in April

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I took a test 5dpt and got a squinter, he didn't want to believe it so the digital I took the next day kind of sealed the deal. Queue the freak out. We did IVF so this was not a surprise, but he is still so beyond freaked out/excited. 37 years old, you would think he would be prepared for this. Nope. Freaked out.

Tell us something interesting about them... He was an amazing baseball pitcher and was on the road to play pro-ball until he threw his shoulder out his senior year of high school. His mother was devastated. More so than he was. He had scouts coming to his high school games and everything. His mother still reminisces like he had already been signed.

[calliemarine]

Where/how did you meet? At church. I don't actually remember meeting him because we were kids and he is 3 years older than me. We didn't become friends until I started going to youth group when I was 14 or so, became closer friends when I was 20, started dating when I was 23.

How long have you been together? Dating since September 2009, married since May 2012

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? I had planned to do a game of 20 questions (since we play 20 questions kind of a lot!) but like someone else said, IF sucked all the fun out of announcing. I found out from a voicemail and drove to his work to tell him.

Tell us something interesting about them...
He was a mechanic for about 15 years and last fall he started his own business and opened his own garage

[dke2010]

I love reading these!

[murrt]

Where/how did you meet? I was on a bachelorette party for a friend of mine. It was her second marriage so she told us she didn't want to make a huge deal of the bachelorette, so we just went to the bars that she and my friends frequented when they were in high school and thought they were bad-asses. I was the only one that didn't grow up with them. So we went into a dive bar and there was DH. My friend knew him from high school and introduced us. I asked me out but I was going away to Miami with friends for two weeks and though we exchanged numbers, I was convinced he'd forget about me before I got back. He didn't. He text me the entire time I was away making me laugh constantly, and he asked if I would go with him to Fenway for the Marathon Monday game. That's kind of a huge thing in Boston and not something where you take a date..it's kind of like spring break for 20 & 30 somethings. That's when I knew he must really like me. I went with him and we spent the entire day together and six months later, he proposed. We had both had longer relationships, but when you know, you know.

How long have you been together? 4 years.

How did you announce your pregnancy to them? We did an FET so he knew I'd be testing sometime soon, but he wasn't sure when (I didn't know either). I finally got the nerve up to test at 9am one day after he was already at work. So when he came home from work, I put a onesie in a package that looked like it came from amazon, because we order from there all the time, and covertly video taped him opening the onesie that said "The little embryo that could". He still didn't get it so he looked at me and said, "this is cute" and then he just paused because he could tell by my face. He said, "You're pregnant?! Shut up?! Awwww" and came over to hug me.

Tell us something interesting about them...
DH has already held three citizenships so far in his life. He's Irish, as his parents are Irish. Try sitting in at dinner with a family speaking Irish! It's pretty interesting. He's also English, because he was born in England where his parents were looking for work at the time. And, he moved to the U.S. when he was 5 and got his U.S. Citizenship at 15.

[penguin129]

murrt I love that you were able to record your H's reaction! That's a great memory