How to tell your partner you’re pregnant

This may be the most personal news you ever share, and usually you have only a few hours to plan it, between the home test and the moment you can’t keep it in any longer.

Here are simple ideas you can put together quickly, and what to do if your partner isn’t home.

Ideas for telling them at home

  1. The test in a gift boxA small box with a ribbon, and the test inside. The simplest idea, and still moving.
  2. A meal with a hintA “baby” dinner: baby carrots, baby corn, and a dessert with a fitting name. Let them work it out.
  3. A note on the mirrorA note on the bathroom mirror: “Good morning, Dad” or “Good morning, Mom.”
  4. Baby clothes in the closetA tiny baby outfit hanging among their clothes, and you nearby, waiting.

When they’re away

On reserve duty, a work trip or a long shift, waiting is hard. A phone call passes on the news, but not the moment.

With Gasp you can tell them from afar and see their face. You make a short surprise from your own photos and words, and send a link on WhatsApp. They open it on their phone, with no app and no sign-up, and watch. If they agree, their phone films their reaction, and the video reaches you only if they choose to send it.

Keeping the moment

  • If you’re together, leave a phone recording on a shelf beforehand, as if by chance.
  • Choose a calm moment: not while rushing to work, and not in the middle of an argument about the laundry.
  • It’s fine to cry, laugh and not manage the sentence you planned. That’s part of the memory.
Create a surprise

Your first surprise is free · 3 minutes · no app for them

Questions

When should you tell your partner?
Most people tell their partner straight away, before anyone else. If you want a surprise, you can wait a few hours and prepare something small.
How do you tell your partner when they’re on reserve duty or abroad?
Send a surprise as a link. With Gasp they open it on their phone, with no app, and if they agree, you get a video of their reaction.
How do you film their reaction without them noticing?
Set a phone recording somewhere natural before the moment. If you’re far apart, Gasp films on their phone, only with their permission.

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