Partner Present During Pregnancy Test?
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QUESTION
Should I do the pregnancy test with my husband present. Any advice you can give me on this topic would be fantastic.
Jackie
ANSWER
Hi Jackie,
The reality is it comes down to you. Are you going to be upset if you find out you're not pregnant? As a guy, in most instances, he's not going to be upset if it is negative or at least not as upset as you might be if it is negative. He's not going to be able to supply you with the compassion and sort of things you would like him to say.
Now if you are pregnant, you run the risk he will not be as excited as you.
Our advice would be do the test by yourself and whichever way it goes, you can then identify the best way to manage it from then on.
We'll actually do a blog in a few days on the best way to tell him you're pregnant and how to get him excited from day one.
So recapping answer, do it by yourself unless he is super, super, super excited about the whole thing and wants to be involved. Hope this helps.
Sam and Tom,
Being Dad Team
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Being Dad Team
Men want to be GREAT dads and birth partners. They just don't know how! We decided that men who had had kids knew what to do and say and what not to do and say but they just don't talk about it. Getting that information out of dads and into a format that dads-to-be would learn from was the hard part. Everyone loves a film and most guys hate instruction guides and manuals so the Being Dad DVD was born. Who are these guys trying to help men be great dads and help women understand their men?
Troy Jones: Troy's company produced the Being Dad series and he has traveled the globe interviewing hundreds of new dads and experts. As a result we like to think of him as a "well renowned global guru in all things Being Dad;" sounds impressive anyway. Troy has a beautiful daughter Matilda, who appears in the Being Dad series.
Sam Holt: Best known for coming up with a new idea every five minutes it's little wonder that Being Dad was, in fact, his idea. Fortunately, Being Dad was one of Sam's better ideas and with the help of Troy and Tom it has grown way beyond all of their expectations. Sam has a son, Hugo, who is too cute to be his.
Tom Hastwell: Lured out of the corporate world by Sam and Troy, Tom has been bitten by the business bug. Troy and Sam are eagerly awaiting news that Toms wife is pregnant so that they can attach a camera crew to him for nine months and actually put him to work. Tom is currently practicing for kids.
