I remember when we first saw the advert for the Clear Blue digital pregnancy test. Oh how we laughed at those dafties who couldn't understand 'one line not pregnant, two lines pregnant'and needed to see the word 'PREGNANT' appear in a lovely digitised screen instead. This morning I took a Sainsbury cheapy test. I'd taken it up north with us without the instructions. How hard is it to pee on a stick? After about 10 mins there was a faint pink line in the test area and a dark pink line in the control area. Except you are not supposed to read them after 10 mins. Some surfing on my Iphone explained all about 'evaps' which are false negatives on the stick which can develop after the 10 minute test period. They tend to be gray and not the colour of the dye used in the tests. It is just the strip of antibodies which looks a bit different from the rest of the test. Was my line an evap line, or positive? Did I wait longer than 10 mins, or not?
D was very sensible and refused to get emotionally involved until we did another test. We had to travel back from Aviemore this morning. I spent 3/4s of the train journey staring at my two pink lines. TWO PINK LINES. The other 1/4 was spent on my iphone reading hard luck stories on conception forums about the trauma of evap lines. By the time we arrived in Waverly I was pretty sure it was all a false alarm. I had also had a brief insight into the quite worrying world of ttc (trying to conceive) forums with their indecipherable abbreviations. More Google time spent understanding them:
BFN - Big Fat Negative
BFP - Big Fat Positive
DPO - Days post ovulation
AF - Aunt Flo (I'm not making this up)
and worst of all, BD (baby dance - i.e. having it off)
So anyway, feeling very bad for being so smug about women who bought digital tests, I got one in Boots at the station. It cost 3 times my cheapy supermarket test but I didn't want to be in any doubt. It had the added benefit of not having to wait until the next morning. So once home and after a couple of episodes of Corrie, I went upstairs to test. It was supposed to take 3 minutes, but sometimes as soon as 1 minute for the result. 10 seconds later, the word 'PREGNANT' appeared. Gah. Much shaking, much laughing and much happiness. Keep looking at the silly stick. D v excited. Less excited about continued existence of wee wee stick and my need to keep looking at it.
So several hours of looking at mumsnet type sites, I understand myself to be 4 weeks preggers although I only conceived 2 weeks ago. No comprende. Not for the last time I don't suppose.
