The Tale Of A Thousand Negative Pregnancy Tests
I was commiserating/laughing with a close friend the other day about taking pregnancy tests and how each time when the blasted negative sign shows up, we still convince ourselves that maybe it’s not accurate. The box does say there’s room for error, right? At least that’s what we hope when the result isn’t favorable.
To those who are trying to conceive, does this scenario sound familiar:
You wake up on or around day twenty-eight. You’ve been having PMS symptoms but you completely ignore them because they’re super close to pregnancy symptoms (tiredness, sore breasts, etc). You contemplate pulling out a stick and think of how crappy you’re going to feel if it’s negative but then you think of the flip side. Would if it’s positive?! This could be the best day of your life! Against your better judgement, you take the test and it almost instantly shows that you are indeed not pregnant. You are disappointed and head to the freezer of ice cream. Then, while you’re downing some Chunky Monkey, you convince yourself that pregnancy tests aren’t always accurate and resolve to take one in a couple of days if Aunt Flo hasn’t shown. You never do take the second test. It was accurate. Dream crushed, maybe next month.
I’ll tell you one thing, if I do ever get a positive sign, I’m going to have that stick mounted and hung above my mantle.
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I kept my first positive test for about 3 years. Not kidding. Finally cut ties with it.
exactly!
Hang in there sweetie. All the women who have gone through similar things are praying for you and sharing your heartache. To be honest, the pain of this part is pretty much the only reason we aren’t trying again. We’ve been pregnant twice, so we feel like it COULD happen. But oh the bad times…..
I could see it working with a nice wooden mount, maybe some antlers over it…
I kept the 7 that I took for about 3 months and looked at them constantly. They help in those first few months when you still barely believe that you’re pregnant.
The women in my family are very messed-up menstrual period-wise. My first pregnancy, I had my period into the third month. My second, I had my period for 5 months. So it’s even easier for me to blow-off those negatives, even when I get my period. I can convince myself I’m really pregnant for a good few months! Especially after the first time when I did show-up negative until 10 weeks when it finally struck on a repeat blood test! Apparently that mess is straightened out a bit though, with my second I showed-up positive right away. It’s totally weird though.
I have heard of women buying the pregnancy test strips in bulk because those things are so expensive. It might be worth looking into. Then when it’s positive, you can pick up a few “nice” ones too.
I am 7 and a half months pregnant, I found out when I was 8 or 10 weeks pregnant by a blood test at the doctor’s office – I never had a positive urine test, not at home or at the doctor – but I KNEW that I was – just had that feeling ya know! So needless to say the urine tests didn’t work for me – I think I may drink too much water LOL…
Yep, that sounds very familiar. I Google “early pregnancy symptoms” every time, too, like maybe the Internet has come up with some new ones since the last time I checked.
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