Is Saving Your Positive Pregnancy Test Weird?
A couple months ago I was at a “girls night in” party, and like many all-female parties with guests in their early 30′s, the conversation quickly turned to birth and babies.
Labor and delivery stories were swap, trying to conceive tips and tricks were shared, and sometime during the conversation, the party host went up to her bedroom, and came down with two used positive pee sticks.
I was completely grossed out. Not only did she save her positive pregnancy tests (that she urinated on), she was showing them off at a cocktail party!
While I silently thought to myself that this was completely the most bizarre thing ever, other party guest chimed in, commenting on how they too saved their positive pee sticks, one friend even admitting she incorporated hers into a scrap book collage.
I went home that night convinced that I keep really strange company.
Saving positive pregnancy tests. It never dawned on me as a thing to do.
But then fast forward to this week…
I was cleaning out my bedroom “junk” drawer. You know the drawer. The drawer that hides old receipts, stray buttons, fashion jewelry you never wear, ect. I dumped out the contents of the drawer on my bed and started sorting the stuff out in piles. It was there that I found it. An old positive pee stick.
I’ve had four pregnancies, I have no clue what little fertilized egg of mine this belonged to. And while I’m assuming the test is mine, I have no recollection of saving it. Because I don’t save stuff I pee one.
So my instinct says to throw it out. But now, after I realize it’s a “thing” to keep it, I’m wondering if I’m being completely insensitive by being OK with tossing it out. Are my kids someday going to ask to see it? Will I look back and regret that I don’t have it to reminisce the “good ole’ days”?
So what’s a mom to do? Keep it or trash it? And I want to know, did you save yours? If so, where is it now?
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i took a picture of mine and then tossed the actual pee stick in the trash.
I’ve had multiple miscarriages and multiple tests with my son. If I’d kept all of my tests I’d have a small mountain. I’ve binned them all. Not interested in keeping them
I saved mine for awhile and then tossed it after D was 6 months old I think. What was I really going to do with it anyways.
Oh, garbage all the way! I understand wanting to be sentimental and all of that, but with something you peed on? Just, no.
I took a picture of it cause my doctor kept it. But I would have if I could’ve after having 2 miscarriages.
I didn’t keep mine – just took a picture (of all 3 together) and then tossed them. If you want to keep it for yourself, great. But I wouldn’t keep it so that your children could see it one day. I mean, do you feel slighted that you haven’t (I’m assuming) seen a positive pregnancy test from your mom?? I’m guessing not.
One better? My mother tried to keep mine. I was getting ready to pitch it after I’d showed it to her, and she snatched it away. In the end, I tossed it out, after convincing her that it was disgusting and if *I* wasn’t keeping it, neither was she.
Trash it. I’ve thrown out all of mine. Actually, I didn’t even keep them to show the husband. Oops! But I peed on it. I think it would be gross to keep it.
I had it on my night table for awhile, but it was a digital one and after awhile the “pregnant” went away, so there was no use for it anymore.