By Guest Blogger, Lisa Kuszmar:
Have you ever seen that commercial that starts – one in four women can misread a traditional pregnancy test? Then it proceeds to tell you to purchase the only digital pregnancy test that reads – PREGNANT or NOT PREGNANT. I recall the first time I saw that ad and thought to my self REALLY? That’s ridiculous! I mean how hard is it to read a pink line? You won’t get me to spend $20 on your fancy test. Well I ate those words big time.
Now let me start by saying I have a real love hate relationship with the home pregnancy test. It took me 15 months to conceive and so I have purchased my fair share of ovulation kits, pregnancy tests and contraptions to time my impending pregnancy.
There were so many months that I peed on those silly sticks only to be disappointed. You actually start to dread the next test. You have strange pep talks with yourself in the bathroom. You tell yourself to stay calm and to not over react one way or the other. There is something so defeating and sanity testing about that pink line refusing to show up. You stare and stare and you can actually start to convince yourself that you see something that isn’t there. Well the month that my test actually was positive, I thought I was hallucinating. There is no way that line was there, I shouted for my husband to see if he saw the line. Well he did. It was faint, but it was there. Holy cow; a faint line. Now were we that one in four people who were misreading the test? Should we call family and alert the media? We were torn.
We agreed to tell no one and that day we ran out and purchase that fancy digital test. I need to read the results in English. Well morning number two, we took the test and I saw the world’s best word – PREGNANT!!!
Thank goodness for fool proof tests!!
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Thanks so much for sharing. Just sat through the 2 minute wait this morning for the 14th month in a row. Maybe 15 will be my lucky month next month too!
This made me laugh out loud. I've been there staring at the lines. Do I see it, or is that a shadow.
Reading this post reminded me of how OCD I was over those tests years ago! It's funny now, but I remember turning the process into a science experiment. It took us 4 years to conceive, and in that time I think I tried every brand, researched the internet checking which brand could detect the lowest level of hCG, and loved this site: http://www.peeonastick.com. When it finally was positive, it was almost anti-climactic. Best of luck to all couples out there who are going through this process!
Great blog entry!
Great blog! I remember having a very faint line when we found out we were pregnant with our first, and I woke my husband up early to see if he could make sense of the line since I thought I just had sleepy eyes. It's so maddening!
I had good luck with the Target brand ovulation and pregnancy tests. In fact, with my 2nd, the pregnant line was faint. I just so happened to be going to my PCP because I thought I had strep throat. So, I had them run a test to be sure. Well, there test came back negative! Indeed, the Target test was correct!
Yes! I, too, had been thinking, "What kind of idiot …." until I reflected on my own first experience. Frugal me bought some CHEAP tests where 1 blue line equals not pregnant, 1 blue plus 1 pink means pregnant. My result? One VERY vivid blue line, one pink line so faint it was hardly noticeable. WHAT?!? So, against instructions, I tried it again later in the day. Same result. Disheartened, I took the results to my attorney husband who pronounced, "Well, if I had to present this as evidence in a court of law, I think the jury would find you pregnant." (I was). Lucky for you new girls, you can dispense with the judge and jury and have the stick proclaim your result with certainty! 🙂
Great post Lisa! All the feelings came rushing back reading your post. I just KNEW I'd be the one who couldn't read the test, so I started with the fancy ones!
Great post! Too funny and oh so true. Personally I think the only thing more aggravating than the PG tests are those OPK lines. I never feel confident about what those lines are showing! So frustrating!