https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:40:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1360507 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:25:26 +0000 travelgirl1 1360507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't actually take a HPT, I had a blood test at the fertility clinic and was CONVINCED it would be negative as I had all the signs of a period. I didn't answer the phone when the nurse called with the results as I couldn't deal with hearing it out loud and just carried on doing the 30 Day Shred DVD. After I finished I finally listened to the voicemail and I can still hear her voice in my head telling me that it was good news, the test was positive! I was shaking, crying, pacing up and down and so, so shocked. I remember thinking "shit, shit, shit" then thinking "what the eff do I need to do if I'm pregnant?", and googling it to see what I should/shouldn't be doing or eating. For a long time in my life I thought I would never be pregnant and it had consumed my thoughts. To actually be pregnant felt like a miracle :heart: My daughter is 14 months old now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1360403 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:19:00 +0000 irene 1360403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine was a faint faint second line. My first thought was this test is probably expired (it actually was, it was in my drawer for months lol). </p> <p>Then I bought a second one, also a faint line. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1360163 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:27:14 +0000 avivoca 1360163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was shocked. We had been NTNP, and my husband is diabetic, which can make getting pregnant harder. I took a test at 8dpo in the evening while he was at the store, forgot about it until he got home, and then went back to chuck it and it was a faint positive. So I took another one the next morning and it turned positive in less than a minute. It was 4:30 am. I woke up my husband at 4:45 to tell him he was going to be a father. </p> [attach=2564/14/mzoepf.448x600.image.jpg] [attach=2564/14/mzoepi.448x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1360033 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0000 Crystal 1360033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMccarthy: I love that your DH was able to capture that!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1360026 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:12:06 +0000 pui 1360026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Shock and disbelief. </p> <p>We got our BFP two days before Christmas. I only tested because I hadn't in a while (I kinda needed to every now and then since I rarely had AF) and we were going to be telling my ILs about our Infertility. Both my sister and my SIL had just announced their pregnancies, and DH and I were feeling very bleak for our holiday season. </p> <p>I did not for one second expect I was going to get a positive that morning. After all our trouble TTC and my PCOS diagnosis, I was going to start fertility treatments the next month. Getting pregnant competely without medical intervention was impossible. I had long and irregular cycles and the cycle I had before this one was 60 days long so I didn't even think I was halfway through a cycle when I tested CD36. I hadn't had a cycle that short since BCP wore off a year earlier. As I was waking up that morning I was repeating in my head "Pui, it's going to be negative. It's going to be negative" to remind myself to try and prevent disappointed. </p> <p>The lines came up SO fast and so dark. I just starred at the test, incredulous. My first thought was maybe I used a OPK by mistake? But nope, it was an HPT. Then I thought maybe this test was broken?? Did I do something wrong?? </p> <p>I don't think I started really feeling excited and happy until we got the betas back later that day. That whole day was crazy. My whole life changed. I never really believed in miracles before, but I do now. I'm 9 weeks today. </p> <p>[attach=3198/14/mzobl3.600x216.my9pbe.600x216.bfp.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359908 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:39:01 +0000 HolisticMama 1359908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsMccarthy: LOL! I love your face in that picture. It's AWESOME! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359864 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:05:19 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1359864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were on honeymoon for three weeks in Thailand and Cambodia. We has plans to TTC the following month in January 2012. We had a night in our room though that was in my window and my husband told me to forget about the sponge sp I did. I really didn't think I was pregnant. I had a test that indicated low AMH and I was 34 years old. We went to Cambodia or a week and then came back to Thailand for our beach resort portion of the trip. I had pink spotting when I wiped but it was at around 11DPO so I just expected a period. My nipples were also killing me and I screamed when my hubs grabbed me during a romp but still thought nothing of it. I bought some pads from the grocery but by then my spotting was gone and I had just creamy CM. still didn't think anything of it because I know implantation bleeding is pretty rare. The day after Xmas we were in Trat, Thailand which is the mainland of the beach our resort was in. We decided to stay a night there then head to Bangkok for a day then our flight home. My husband decided to get a tattoo of the Chang Beer logo on his arm and it looked sp cool that I decided I wanted a tattoo as well but the place was closing so we waited to the next day. That morning I realized I was 15DPO and I am like clockwork. I told my husband at breakfast "I'm totally NOT but I should probably take a pregnancy test just in case because I'm late. He was very boastful and sure that I was pregnant. I wasn't at all convinced but we got the test and he decided to get the camera ready to film my reaction to reading it. Well here's that picture. I still didn't really believe it until we got home abs I took a digital. I took about 7 Thai tests before we left including one in the airplane bathroom that I snuck because my husband thought I was crazy. </p> [attach=1422/14/mzo5cx.450x600.image.jpg] [attach=1422/14/mzo5cz.600x450.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359592 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:59:50 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1359592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, I was completely shocked and in disbelief. Pretty sure I posted a photo here to have others confirm. After 2 years TTC, on a cycle that seemed 'off', it was mindblowing.<br /> Then I couldn't sleep for days, because I was so excited. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359501 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:47:25 +0000 GrapeCrush 1359501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>#1, I was slightly shocked. I had felt like AF was on her way, I had all my usual AF symptoms. I was a day late, but that was completely unheard of. I took the test and just started shaking and crying. I ran outside and yelled for my husband to come in, he knew right away.</p> <p>#2, complete and total shock! like a "OMG! this can't be happening! we have a 7 month old!' kind of shocked. it was a complete surprise. I just couldn't believe it. I was happy, but oh so scared! I was terrified that my husband was going to freak out as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359487 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:37:31 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1359487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Shocked. Terrified.</p> <p>#1 wasn't planned. I was so afraid of what my husband would say. I didnt tell him until like 36 hours later!! I cried. Not necessarily tears of sadness, but tears of shock and disbelief. I was still in school, we had only been married six months. It was really hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359479 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:27:39 +0000 Mae 1359479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bisous: aww… glad your SO was happy too! We had had a birth control mishap and had talked about me taking the morning after pill. I left it up to him and he said that the odds of it happening from one mishap were so low that if I ended up pregnant it was obviously meant to be and we should just "let it ride." lol. Sounded good in theory but when I turned up pregnant I was terrified he'd be upset! Now of course we can't imagine it happening any other way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359475 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:24:55 +0000 bisous 1359475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: Glad to hear I wasn't the only person scared my SO would be mad. I thought my period hormones were making me crazy, so I was taking a test thinking there was no way I would be pregnant. And so I didn't tell my SO I was taking it first.</p> <p>We got pregnant on our first month of NTNP and we hadn't really talked a whole lot about it!</p> <p>SO was mad--but only because I didn't tell him I was taking the test! Not because I was pregnant! I quickly went from "oh crap" and maybe some tears of being scared and shocked to "Omg we are having a baby--yayyyyy!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359471 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:22:00 +0000 HayleyJane 1359471@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had only been trying for a couple of months. I was shocked, excited, and scared. I tried not to get too attached, because I knew everything that could happen. Cautiously optimistic (and freaking out about the enormity of it all) is probably the best way to describe it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359370 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:55:48 +0000 yerpie110 1359370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was absolutely stunned and shocked beyond words. In disbelief. We were finally ready to NTNP and we did it once. ONCE. And I ended up pregnant. I took about 7 wondofs with all the same results. I had always wanted to share the news with DH in some sweet way, but was caught way off guard and just screamed for him. He was in disbelief, too. We bought a FRER (more like 4) and took them with all the same result (clearly it took us a while to get the message). And I had a baby shower to go to that afternoon! When the shock dissipated, we were elated, but scared. Those emotions remained pretty constant right up until the birth. Not ready yet for LO #2, but am looking forward to the experience again! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359362 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:47:14 +0000 HolisticMama 1359362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>&lt;3 I love these stores, ladies! Thanks for sharing! Keep them coming! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1359203 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:46:34 +0000 sarac 1359203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sort of a sick disbelief - I had wanted this so, so badly, but I just did not believe that it was happening, that it was real, that I would be so lucky. I just went and waved it at my husband crying and freaking out. It took me a long time to really believe it - honestly, until she was born. I was too scared to enjoy it when found out. </p> <p>I'm excited to do it again - I think that time I'll just be excited, not scared. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358805 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:37:09 +0000 Torchwood 1358805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The first time, I was SO convinced there was no chance. We had managed to BD maybe twice the entire month, and it was our first month trying. My back was hurting, just like AF was coming, and I wanted to take some advil. But it occurred to me that advil wasn't allowed if I was pregnant, so I tested just in case. I was 100% sure it would be negative. But a positive popped up immediately! I started shaking SO hard. I took the test upstairs and held it out to DH (all thoughts of my cute plans to tell him had gone right out the window), and he said "it's not positive." I think he thought I was just messing with him. His response was something like "well, okay then." We were both pretty shocked. I was definitely super excited. I wasted a ton of tests because I just couldn't believe it! </p> <p>Lost that one, sadly, and second time I tested a ton, super early. So my first positive with that was so faint I wasn't sure it was real. Once I was sure, I was excited, but not very. That one had bad numbers on my betas, so I never really had time to get excited or anything.</p> <p>This time, I just KNEW from 3dpo that I was pregnant. I tested early, and the lines that I got were so insanely faint that anyone who looked at them would have thought I'd lost my mind for thinking they were positive. But I was right! For some reason I've stayed really confident this time. I keep thinking I shouldn't be letting myself get so excited, but I'm 7 weeks today and still looking and feeling good! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358664 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:26:43 +0000 Mae 1358664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Scared. First that my husband wouldn't be happy, then that I wasn't ready for this. I woke my husband up to tell him and he immediately assured me he WAS happy and that we WERE ready because it was obviously meant to be. Because he's awesome. Then I spent the next few hours in a daze, until I realized that I was equal parts super excited and super terrified I would lose the pregnancy. And then I spent a few weeks waffling between excitement and terror, basically until my 8 week ultrasound :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358627 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:06:55 +0000 meganmp 1358627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first thought was, "No fucking way"- I didn't believe I was seeing what I was seeing. I then threw on a towel (I was about to get into the shower) and raced into our kitchen, yelling for DH. We had been trying for two years, and it was the result of an FET after a failed IVF. I had been spotting two days prior, and I was convinced it was over. I just POAS because I wanted to be sure that it hadn't worked before I went in for my beta. I was shaking- I've never, ever been more elated. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358604 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:46:43 +0000 Cherrybee 1358604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was elated and beyond excited!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358601 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:43:28 +0000 Kemma 1358601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well considering it was the first hpt I'd ever taken and I was already pretty sure I was pregnant, it was more of confirmation than anything and I was kind of neutral about it! We'd been TTC for twelve months so when my temps hasn't dropped and my boobs were still sore I pretty much knew I was knocked up :-) </p> <p>Having said all that the two tests I took did sit on my dressing table till Miss A was born... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358596 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:37:48 +0000 tequiero21 1358596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First test, was 3 years after trying, we had just done an hsg before I was scheduled to ovulate. It was our very first ever pregnant test. Very shocking! Everything was so surreal. But lost the baby at 9 weeks.</p> <p>Second time, it was after the ivf and I was SO nervous to get a negative. Was so scared, but I really wanted to see if it worked. If not, I wanted to be prepared for beta. I got a second line on wondfo but it was lighter than control and I thought it should be the same or darker, like opks. I thought that's how pregnancy tests worked. But when I googled, said I was pregnant so made my hubby get digitals. Was nervous all throughout the pregnancy but boy were we soooo thankful it worked.</p> <p>This last test, I took day after Christmas. I took it a few days before. Negative as usual. So I just figured another negative. But what the heck, it was positive.... On an expired wondfo. So I was all freaking out.... Then I was like ugh, shoulda saved the pee so I could test with an unexpired wondfo. Anyway, this was shocking because I didn't think it would happen without any treatments, but after a year of ntnp, here we are.... </p> [attach=38/14/mzmc72.600x448.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358578 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:18:14 +0000 Radish 1358578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cautiously ecstatic with a mix of oh sh*t. I knew that a lot of things could still happen (I was only 9dpo) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358572 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:12:23 +0000 lovehoneybee 1358572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tested at 13 DPO, the day I was expecting AF. I was sure I wasn't pregnant, but I was charting and my temp was still high, so I tested. I hated seeing negative tests so I only tested the day AF was due. </p> <p>I was in shock when I saw the second line come up. We had had horrible timing that month (due to a variety of reasons we had only managed to have sex once during my fertile window, two days before ovulation). It was our 13th cycle, and I just assumed that after all those months of multiple, perfect timed sessions that the way less than ideal of this month meant no way. </p> <p>I actually had a mini panic attack, sitting on the bathroom floor at 5am, staring at the test. I was in disbelief, and I was terrified because of a miscarriage three months before. I definitely had a "ohfuckohfuckohfuck" moment. And then pulled myself together, splashed some water on my face and went out to wait for D to come back downstairs. I was very scared to get excited, and didn't let it feel real until after we'd had a successful ultrasound at 8 weeks. </p> <p>This wasn't the first test I took (I didn't take a picture of the Wondfo) but the second I took a few hours later. </p> [attach=1866/14/mzmb0p.600x450.4wks.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358570 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:10:09 +0000 SweetMamaM 1358570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was stunned, especially seeing an emergency room test at 7dpo had been negative. Those two lines showed up straight away though - bold! I did a digital and "Pregnant" showed up. I was shaking and grinning like an idiot. It was great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358563 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:04:16 +0000 FarmWifeGina 1358563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is my last test. I was completely not expecting it to be positive. I was several weeks late, but every other test I had taken was negative and I'd just figured it was related to some pretty drastic weight loss I'd been working on. Honestly, I only took the test to trick AF into coming- I'd been feeling crampy since the day before and was SURE she was on her way. And the positive showed up literally within seconds of taking it. I don't think I'd even laid it down on the counter before it showed up. I think I gasped and cried right away. I couldn't even speak to tell DH, just pointed at the test and told him he was in trouble, lol. And then I went back to bed and cried. </p> [attach=3192/14/mzman5.600x447.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358486 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:57:07 +0000 lilteacherbee 1358486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I saw very faint lines for 2 days (8 and 9 dpo). The next morning, there was an obvious line, so I went to the store (at 5:30am) and picked up a digital. It said "Pregnant" and I was so happy! But also, very nervous because I had a miscarriage 8 months before. I spent that whole day (and really, the whole pregnancy) telling myself "I am pregnant TODAY." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358475 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:51:49 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1358475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With c, I was shocked and said "oh shit!" even though it shouldn't have been a surprise. </p> <p>With this pregnancy, I was guarded. I didn't want to let myself feel excited, and my husband was half asleep since I tested at 5am.</p> <p>I tested again the next 4 days and didn't allow myself to feel excitement until we saw the baby at 6w. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358445 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:29:43 +0000 googly-eyes 1358445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was shocked even though I gues logically I shouldn't save been. First words to myself were holy crap!</p> <p>The next two days I tested again because of course i wanted to see if the line would get darker (it did, to a point) and because I didn't totally believe it the first time, lol. I also remember being very nervous about the risk of miscarriage early on. I told dh two days later (waited due to something with his work) and he was thrilled. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-those-lines-showed-uphow-did-you-feel#post-1358378 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:42:20 +0000 stargal 1358378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>in disbelief, shaking, heart racing. so freaking happy and excited. and shocked. so incredibly shocked! </p>