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Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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New-style Boots-own pregnancy test

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SheCutOffTheirTails · 26/09/2011 10:15

When did Boots tests get so hard to use?

It used to be so easy - big thing to wee on, nice big windows.

I just tried to use one (BFN) and managed to wee all over the control window of the first one.

I'm quite proud that I managed to stop the wee, rip open the other one and use it. But still, surely it shouldn't involve holding in a wee you've started to use the back-up test?

Anyone else had problems with these? What tests would you recommend for ease of use?

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greenzebra · 26/09/2011 10:55

I never wee on the stick I always wee into a glass or jug and then dip the stick. Have done this for a while now as I ended up weeing on myself, the floor anything but the stick or when I did on the stick it would be all over the window.

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SheCutOffTheirTails · 26/09/2011 11:49

Yes, maybe the problem is with me.

It does seem like pregnancy test were designed to make it easy for men to check if they're pregnant :o

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greenzebra · 26/09/2011 11:50

too true.

GTR2882 · 26/09/2011 15:52

I have got a feeling that they were all designed by men.............

kat2504 · 26/09/2011 17:16

Superdrug early pregnancy tests. Not the digital ones. They are brilliant.
I am crap at weeing on sticks so I collect it in a plastic beaker and dunk the stick in. I can't coordinate the wee and stick and hands and timing otherwise! I have had wee splashing off the stick and bouncing all over the floor with the pee on stick method.
Sorry it was bfn though!

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SheCutOffTheirTails · 26/09/2011 18:29

Ah, thanks for the tip :)

Can you only get them in Superdrug? I don't know of any near me.

I have at least another month to locate them though, so I'm sure I'll manage it.

God, I don't know how people do so much testing. Getting your period is so much nicer than a BFN.

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kat2504 · 26/09/2011 19:29

Really? I thought the opposite to be honest. I tested at 12dpo without fail so at least I knew the period was on its way and I didn't find out about it as an unpleasant surprise out and about or at work. I had a massive stash of cheapies but as soon as I got bfp, that was it, pee on three sticks a day at first!!
If you haven't got Superdrug, Asda tests are alright too. Behind the pharmacy counter they have some cheap ones there.

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