Last Post About Negative Tests - This Morning a Positive

[LauraKB]

Hi Everyone

After loads of pregancy symptoms I took a 3 tests 2 weeks ago (2 home, one Doctors)and they were all negative.

Expected symptoms to subside after that as possibly physcosomatic, but they didn't, they stayed and in fact I developed the sorest breasts ever. Anyway this morning I made the decision on the train into work that I would test again using First Response instead of Boots.

I think this was a very silly thing to do because I headed off into the loos at work and it was positive. I think this silly because now I am shaking like a leaf, don't know whether to laugh or cry and am DESPERATE to tell someone but will have to wait til I get home. Well in fact until I get to the Doctors tonight.

My other half works shifts and rather than him being at home today so I could just do a U turn and go and tell him he is at work, and I really want to phone him but don't think its fair over the phone.

The other thing is there isn't such a thing as a false positive is there? After neg tests and now a positive I'm not sure if I should allow myself to believe it!!

Thanks in advance for listening to my rant. You are the very first people I've told!!

LauraKB, x.

no you cant get a false positive

congratualtions!!!!!

Thank you

One line was fainter than the other but they were definitely both there, very quickly. then I spent the remaining minutes going 'Oh My God'. Is there such a thing as reading the test too soon and getting a positive when you shouldn't?

Lisen to me, what am I like, paranoid central!! Oh goodness I am thrilled and excited but petrified at the same time!!!!

I would say that you have yourself a positive test there!! With both my positive tests they appeared immediately I didnt have to wait so......

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

Thank you Thank you!! .

I want to tell everyone!!! I know you're not supposed to and can understand why, but I'm not normally the most discreet of people! Oh well a lesson in self control! Lol, x.

laura is it your 1st pregnancy??? i bet you want to scream it out loud...heres to a trouble free pregnancy!

How exciting!!!! Congratulations

How on earth are you going to get through today??!!
Can you call your OH and arrange to meet for lunch somewhere?

It is. I had been having v irregular periods (well none really) since about September, but when I started to get symptoms it catalysed me to go to the docs. I did those test which were all negative, so I though the symptoms must all be in my head.

Oh well! Thank you for good wishes, hope everything is alright. Will see what the Doc says this afternoon. What happens now?

Hi Lemontart

No idea!!! I think you lot might just about keep me sane!

I can't really meet him for lunch unfortunately as due to the nature of his job he could get called out at any minute, and he works about half an hour train journey from where I do anyway.

My fingers are itching to email my best friend, who I've known since I was 2 but have resisted so far.

Paranoid I know but don't want to tell too many people incase there's an issue.

laura no periods since sept????? thats me too, just having test to see what is going on. had mc in sept.
Tell your best friend, she will guess anyway. Fingers crossed nothing happens but if it did at least she will be there for you.
As for the doctors all he will do is to confirm the pregnancy and make you a appointment with the mid wife for blood test etc

Congratulations!!!

Hope everything goes ok for you Barbie, sorry to hear about mc. Apparently I have/had a low oestrogen level but they weren't sure why and were just waiting to see what happened. Had a period in Jan then nothing again since.

I don't see my bf all that often so not sure she would guess, although I told her all about the neg tests and she was convinced I was already so maybe!!

Am maid of honour for my other friend at her wedding in June and was charged with keeping one of the other bridesmaid out of trouble i.e not pregnant!! Ooops .

Am getting paranoid talking about it now!! Hope I haven't got in wrong somewhere. Have another test in my bag which I'm tempted to do but just being silly!

Thanks for Congratulations Sheeta, I still haven't stopped shaking!!

Aaaw - I retested being pregnant about 4 times when I first found out as the line was so faint! I really know how you feel My faint lines are not 5 and 8 yrs old though and nothing faint about them I can tell you
Really happy and excited for you. Enjoy the next few hours with your own special secret before telling any RL people. It is a magic time knowing something so incredible and life changing with not a single soul else sharing it

how fab! congrats to you!

i did 8 negative tests with my dd before i got a positive.

don't tell..keep it to yourself for a bit longer...enjoy knowing that you are growing a teeeeeeny tiny baby and nobody else knows..its a very warm feeling!

do report back once you've told your partner won't you. i'm dying to know how he takes the news!

Ok I couldn't resist it so I did the other test and there was the second line again! I read on the First Response website a positive result should last for 48 hours so I have kept the test this time. I know that's a bit gross!! Am having to resist taking it out of my bag and looking at it again in the middle of the office!! .

I'll let you know what he says. We have been 'letting nature take its course' so hopefully should be fine, but probably a bit shocked like me. Am v shaking again.

Hope everything is ok!

Thank you for kind wishes, the bit about my own special secret nearly made me cry!!

I just knew you would retest!!

I remember keeping having to look at my tests too - very normal. Have you planned how you are going to tell him the big news?

Not really. I thought might just be blunt and show him the tester and say 'Guess what I am pregnant after all'!!

Any advice?

He is a man of few words, so I'll probably get 'Oh right. Is tea ready?' Lol

LOL - he sounds a bit like my DH.

I had all these romantic notions about telling DH over dinner in a posh restaurant, leaning over to tell him and him being all delighted etc etc but it never worked out like that. With DD1 I was so excited that I rushed out at about 5am to the nearest 24 hr supermarket for a test and then woke DH up far too early, jumping up and down on the bed with excitement, waving a pee stick in his face. Not suprisingly, he was a bit stunned and then (much to my absolute disgust) went back to sleep!! I was horrified as I was far too excited to sleep. Total let down and promised myself I would make a better job of telling him with any future pregnancies (he was lovely later on in the day once the shock disappeared and was not half asleep)

With DD2, DH went out to buy the test as I was busy vomiting. Not sure if a bug or pregnant - charming! Then I had to leave him to squint at the stick for 5 mins while I rushed back to the loo to carry on vomiting. DH yelled through from the other room (he can?t cope with vomit) "yeah, it?s no bug, love, you?re going to be chucking up for longer than the usual 24 hours I?m afraid..." and that was that. Another less than romantic moment

Still special memories though, in a rather quirky way!

I wouldn't say that.

When he asks for his dinner tell him there is something in the oven (a bun ) and ask him to serve up.

Then send for takeaway.

Personally I'd take a sickie and go and find DH

alternatively, wait until you hear his key in the door, leg it to open it and blurt it out.

Then I'd buy a couple of clearblue digital tests and do them tomorrow first thing (and probably again at lunch time) just to see the word pregnant. Ooh, it tells you how many weeks too now!

How very exciting and massive congratulations to you

Lemontart, that is v funny and the sort of thing that would happen to me. Providing everything goes ok at the Docs, I'm going to be climbing the walls by the time 7.30pm (he works 12 hour shifts) comes round. I haven't even phoned him today cos not sure if I could be normal on the phone and not tell him.

The same with my Mum but managed to get through that ok.

Nabster, that's not a bad idea , not sure what my Slimming World consultant would say though, lol!!

Ohforfoxsake, that's fab advice. Due to having had v irregular periods for so long I don't really have too much of an idea how many weeks. Thank you.

oh god laura....you do realise you're going to have to do a "dating" clearblue one don't you......and morte than that, you have to report back here asap so we know too!!!

my guess is early days due to the recent negatives. i'll go for 4 weeks. (do i win the baby if i'm right???

I think you are right Chimchar, about 4 weeks. Doc says she thinks somewhere between 4 and 8 weeks. Am booked in to Antenatal clinic thing on Wed. Doc just said to exercise caution because things do happen but hopefully everything ok!! She said I will possibly get a dating scan because they are so unsure of dates.

I wonder what time boots is open until!!?? Lol.

Well Folks, I told him and it didn't go too badly.

He was a bit shocked but was smiling, and kept saying 'are you sure?', 'how do you know?'.

Anyway its all good now and he has started being very careful of me, (not letting me lift my own handbag for example!) but he says the novelty of that will probably wear off .

awwwwwww. well done! how great.

enjoy the spoiling while it lasts, and i wish you a very happy and healthy pregnancy! xx