Pregnancy Test Response...

Below is my response to a guest post on a particular blog that I am finding impossible to comment on, most likely due to my lack of skills. So once again, here is my reply...



Original post www.methemanandthebaby.com "Guest Blog - Little Blue Lines"

Comment
You are concerned about doing a pregnancy test three days early because you promised your husband you wouldn't? Scrap that! I think your husband can pretty much guess that when It comes to a woman trying to get pregnant, all rationality will go out of the window. It's inbuilt, it's natural, it's compulsion that you will do a pregnancy test whenever the notion pops into your head and it will eat away at you until you do. He should learn this early on in your reproducing career.

Husband also needs to understand and accept, that regardless of the result, you will do more tests...just to check! Just in case the first, second...tenth was inaccurate.

I remember promising not to  buy any more tests until next month (as I had clocked up about £120 within a few days all on negative tests) but at the same time, my mind racing as I crossed my fingers behind my back.

Even after the twentieth test of a positive result, you still may need to do another. A flat dip-stick type of test, so when it shows the two blues lines, you can glue it into a scrapbook/photo album, rather than attempting to cellotaping one of the bulky digital tests. This could just be me, rather than the "norm."

If you do the test early and get a negative result, you will still retest on Friday and repeat your heartache all over again.  Husband should definitely be there to hug and squeeze tight and remind you that you can keep trying.

Your comment "I am such a patient person, normally - what is it about babies that make you (or, well me!) like this?! Its ridiculous."

Pregnancy testing is only the start...just wait until you are 30+ weeks pregnant and you are counting down the days until you go into labour, it's like you have suddenly lost your mind.

I think it's safe to say that you should concentrate on testing when you feel it's necessary and don't make any guarantees to your OH that you will wait until such a date. Explain that it's a compulsion, blame your hormones! Give him a taster of the nutter you are hoping to become, because when you get pregnant, he best brace himself...you become one of the loony gang.

P.S - I know it may seem bizarre but for some reason, I find it IMPOSSIBLE to get pregnant when I want to. I can never time it so I can pick their birthday month. The more desperate I become and the more I focus on it...the more my body defies me. I even tried meditation once, to try and "tune in" to my womb, hoping to will my lady bits into working...blah. I tried being super healthy too, stopping drinking alcohol featured in this. NOTHING!

In sheer frustration, I thought... fuck it!

Booked a holiday in the day then went out and got drunk that night...BINGO!

Baby 1 was conceived.