Erm....I think I might be pregnant!

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My boobs have been really sore for about a week, so bad I've bought a three pack of those ugly bras, I've always had tenderness before a period, but only for a day or so, I've also noticed a strange taste in my mouth, not enough to think much about it, until now, I've just read an early sign is a metallic taste, and that's the taste, couldn't put my finger on it before.

Slight twinges like mild period pains and wind.

I still don't want to believe it, I'm 39, this will be my first if I really am, but reading that about the metallic taste kinda made a light come on.

Early pregnancy symptoms REALLY feel like a period coming.....That's rather confusing.

I don't have anyone to tell, my husband is sleeping.

Blimey!!!

I don't know what to suggest, but everyone handles things differently - this is going to be HUGE for you both if it is positive. He'll need to come to terms with it as well...

I'm just trying to be objective but saying that I know I'd be feeling exactly the same as you.

You can pee into a clean pot or mug/glass and save it for the POAS!

Lol, the tears were quite dramatic and have now gone :-D

If you've got any plastic tumblers you could wee in one of those and keep it.. I'm sure it wouldn't matter for a little while.

If you do some wee in a pot it'll still count as early morning wee. So you don't have to wait till you've got a test.

then get yourself off to the supermarket

Best of luck. Try not to be sad about DH not rushing off. I found mine didn't get excited about any of this stuff at first.

Good luck

Find a nice clean pot, pee in the pit, then you can dunk the stick in the pot in a little bit, saves you lying there desperate for a wee, and no chance of missing the stick when peeing. All of my POAS times were actually sticks I'd dunked in a pot.

I don't have to do a test mid stream? Aren't all off the shelf ones mid stream??

Looks like I was beaten to the pee in a pot suggestion.

Ooo marking my place fingers crossed for you OP. The tears sound promising!

"(Or woken my sister a mum of 3 under 7, I would NOT have been popular )"

You would have been :)

I have 3 under 5, I would have been overjoyed to take your call.

No, just collect some, I always found it easier that way anyway

I'd try a first response

Midstream means urine that is not the first tiny bit of wee that comes out. And all tests I've ever done have been ones you can also do in a pot. And I've done almost every make

(((Ticks off "emotional wreck" on list if symptoms))))))

I think mid-stream is to maximise the chances of the pregnancy hormone being present.

Being stored in a pot for a short time should be fine. Oh, and make sure that you get a twin pack, so that you can test again later if need be.

Good luck.

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Op if you are pregnant talk to your mw about smoking. There's a lot of support for you to quit, you don't have to just use willpoweer.
Now...back to the important stuff

I've always peed in a pot first... Dread to think what mess is get myself into aiming onto a stick :)

Pot wee is best!! Do it do it do it!!! LOL so exciting :)

Exciting! Definitely get first response.

My DH also refused to go to supermarket to get me a pregnancy test... I had been 'sure' several times I was pregnant over the years of trying and never had been so he didn't think it was a bug deal.

We had a huge row and I flounced off in my pyjamas to Sainsburys to get a test.

I was pregnant :-)

Good luck!!

Big deal not bug deal!!

My dp also refused to get me a test even though I'd been asking for a good few days. He didn't think I could be pregnant as I had a coil in. 34+2 currently

How exciting! Iam another Pot Pee-r so that should be fine hurry up!!!

Pregnant with a coil!??? Fuck sakes!

(((Paranoid)))

I have wee-ed but forgot to say i don't drive so there's still gonna be a wait.

Feel like i'm letting my public down

Ooh I missed the coil bit . Just abt to het one. Ooh

Peeing into a pot and dipping the test stick into it is so much easier than trying to pee on the stick itself. I ended up getting urine on the control window and wasting an expensive test by trying to aim on the stick.

I can't be the only person who keeps a small pot that is used for only this purpose?