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Share the Joy

Unique Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy

By Kim Seidel

When Jennifer Stai of Pennock, Minn., learned she was pregnant, she wanted to surprise her husband with the news in a special way. She went to the local flower shop and bought a balloon that boldly read, "Congratulations!" She tied her positive pregnancy test to the balloon string and let it float on their front porch. Stai knew that when her husband arrived home from work, it would be the first thing he saw. "I hid around the corner to see his reaction," she says. "You should have seen his grin."

Discovering you're pregnant can be a lovely time filled with happiness and wonderment. Sharing the news with your husband in a unique way can make the announcement even more amazing.

A friend of mine told me about a wife who wanted to let her husband know she was expecting by serving him baby corn, baby peas and baby back ribs for supper. Of course, he didn't understand the unwritten message on his dinner plate. Sometimes, we women need to be a little clearer with our mates when we're trying to tell something as life changing as pregnancy.

Kathleen Samin-Argel of North Bergen, N.J., bought her husband a card with a baby carriage on the front after she learned she was pregnant with their first child. "We were cuddling in bed, and I reached into the drawer, pulled out the card and gave it to him," she says. "He couldn't believe it, as I expected he wouldn't. So I reached into the drawer again and pulled out the pregnancy test. We were both overjoyed!"

That was two years ago, and the couple is now trying for Baby No. 2. Samin-Argel is already planning how to surprise her husband again. She's going to wear a T-shirt that reads, "We're pregnant!"

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."

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