What was your husband/partner like at the scan?

[barbarap]

first of all i have to say I'm so happy about all the good news we've had lately from all the early scans, fingers crossed for all of us!!
i was wondering what your other half was like at the scan.
my husband sits there and doesn't hold my hand or anything like in the movies...
he doesn't open his mouth and i'm the one doing all the oohing and aahing and talking to the sonographer.
when we came out last week he stood there and I said 'what's up' and he said 'a bit emotional, that's all' and hugged me. I was very happy and then kept asking him how he felt when he saw the heart because I want him to explain to me exactly how he felt.
i know men are different than us and was wondering what your experience was like.

 

[summer rain]

I think men show emotion less on the outside; but they sometimes feel it deeper than women on the inside. My husband is very 'logical' with the sonographer, asks a lot of questions about how long the baby is, can they tell exactly how far along I am etc, but usually does most of the talking nonetheless.

 

[AmeliePoulain]

My husband was mainly concerned with them checking that there was only one!

He didn't ask any questions but he seemed happy - I did all the talking and the crying

 

[mumanddad]

matt was quite as well throught my first pg, but the minute we walked out he had tears in his eyes going that is a boy and its my boy (and we found out at 20 wks it was a boy)

they all deal with it differently

 

[Liz2]

My DH eyes lit up the moment they found the lil one and he saw the heartbeat. He was smiling from ear to ear and I giggled when I looked over at him! Once we left he was like how cool was that! I can't want to have another one! He didn't hold my hand.....he was too busy holding my purse! lol

 

[Faithpatience]

I had my early 7 weeks scan... My dh was standing on the other side n was nit even close to me.... I was the one talking to the sonograpger n cryin n got emotional when I saw our baby on the screen... My dh didn't show any emotions at all .. I asked the sonograpger if there was heartbeat seen coz I cud not see that.. So he did it again for me... My dh had to leave as soon as the scan was over as he had taken permission... He jus left me there n went off... I thought oh my god this guy didn't utter a single word or dosent seem to be happy.. But when he came back from work I asked him if he saw the heartbeat.. He said yep I did.. N then hugged me when I started crying... This was the first tight hug that I got after getting my bfp... Coz at that stage he chose to be cautious.. But after the scan I can say he is happy..

 

[aob1013]

I am very lucky to have a partner who absolutely loves my pregnancy and is sometimes even more into it than i am!
He was beside himself with excitement and in total awe when he saw Leni, even at our first scan at 10 weeks x

 

[sammiwry]

I had an early scan at 7 weeks and he stood next to me trying to get as close to the screen as he could to see and was very emotional didnt have any tears but could tell hed been touched. at my 12 week scan though he was a bit reserved but then even i found the sonographer was quite snappy

 

[totallyashley]

My boyfriend was really nervous when we had our first scan. He was sitting on the edge of his sit, not really saying anything and touching his mouth/chin area alot. When we went in. I was talking away with the women and he just sat quitely in the chair next to me and held my hand. Then when the picture came up on screen and the lady let us listen to the heartbeat I turned to him and he was in tears! It was really sweet and he didn't say anything for the whole scan but when we left he kept looking at the photo and then showed everyone! He was a lot more supportive after the first scan.

The second scan he was completely different. He was literally bouncing off the walls. When we went in he was chatting away with the woman and when he saw the screen and heard the heartbeat he shut up for a few moments and then kissed the top of my head. It was also the day we found out we were having a girl even though we said we weren't going to find out. After he found out it was a girl he could not take the grin off his face and again went around telling everyone including most of the waiting room and most people we saw in tesco on the way home!

 

[Mizze]

It was also the day we found out we were having a girl even though we said we weren't going to find out. After he found out it was a girl he could not take the grin off his face and again went around telling everyone including most of the waiting room and most people we saw in tesco on the way home!

AWWW thats lovely

DH - had tears in his eyes when we saw the hb at the early scan (especially good after previous history)- after we came out of the clinic he turned to me and said "god, im desperate for a fag" (we both gave up smoking fairly recently) - I just started to laugh and laugh because I knew exactly how he felt!

Mizze

 

[twinkletoes78]

We got an early scan at 7 weeks and as soon as DH heard the heartbeat he cried like a baby, still rings me everyday to tell me how "amazed" he is by the whole thing

 

[EmzyJA]

we had an early scan at 6 weeks as i had some spotting. hubbi came in and was very chatty and asking lots of questions. it was an amazing experience tbh and i think we were just sooooooo happy that everything was ok. as we got outside we were both saying how amazing it was seeing our little baby. it was the closest i've felt to him so far since i've been pregnant. xx

 

[hb1]

Mine was in tears - he's a real sweetie

hx

 

[winegums]

last time round at the 12 week scan he has tears running down his face... this time at hte early scan he said 'that was pointless it's a blob' lol!