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Brand/Type of Pregnancy Test

37 replies

Vddz1815 · 07/07/2024 10:45

Hello all, first time here.

Not sure which Topic this one goes into. Long story short I've just exited what my friends describe as an abusive relationship. We go no contact for a couple of days then a few days later my mum and myself get a phone call saying that there's an emergency.

Turns out my ex-Girlfriend is pregnant.

I'm not entirely sure how as she was on the pill. She did take Ozempic. Anyway it's a huge shock to me and she admitted to not taking a pill sometime a few weeks ago, alongside a lot of her mental abuse being around not being committed enough, not talking about houses, not buying a car in an afternoon. We had moved in together in April (known each other since late November).

She said it was weird it being heartbreaking when a doctor says congratulations for being pregnant on the phone.

Anyway Friday we discuss and it's only a couple of weeks old, she feels guilty that she put my future at risk for telling me about Ozempic (and the one instance of the pill). It's not my choice what she does, I only really can say a preference.

Yesterday a much more heated discussion (I had confided in a friend who turns out I "wasn't allowed to speak to because they don't have kids"). She had threatened her life down the phone earlier that day.

Anyway the point of all of this is that she, when we meet, says she did another test and instead it says she's 2 to 3 months pregnant. So she gets out a test that looks like a Clearblue that says "2 to 3 Months" - which then obviously gets confusing for timelines as her last period was third week of May (we were in different countries for two weeks and I know she wasn't pregnant when she left! ).

I've struggled to find this test anywhere on the Internet. I have taken to recording our conversations for my safety and I've transcribed just so I could remind/reassure myself I had seen this.

So basically Mums of Mumsnet, can someone guide me to where this test is?

Thank you

Concerned possible future Father

OP posts:
Vddz1815 · 07/07/2024 17:53

I realise this all sounds absurd, I'm grateful for the responses though as it helps me understand what the process should be vs what I'm being told.

I'm struggling quite a lot but thanks.

OP posts:
GreyCarpet · 07/07/2024 18:02

I wish you luck, OP.

I have experience of two women faking pregnancies - one was my son's ex girlfriend and it was an attempt.to get him to leave university and get a job because she was scared of losing him; the other was a friend who was quite mentally ill. It transpired, she'd done it before.

Both came to light when inconsistencies in narratives around the process, dates and stages of pregnancy emerged.

GreyCarpet · 07/07/2024 18:06

In terms of a.midwife appointment, I rested on my own at home, rang up the GP akd told.them I'd tested positive and they made an appointment based on that.

I didn't have a separate test done so they took my word for it.

So thats a possibility.

Vddz1815 · 09/07/2024 10:25

An update - I managed to get the rest of my belongings yesterday, which caused a degree of uproar and her coming to my parents house (I was let in by her brother).

I've seen a box for Clearblue Weeks indicators, so I'm pretty sure this is real, but the test I saw was definetly altered.

She is convinced that because the NHS dates it back to the last period (in her case third week of May) it makes conception around early June - I don't buy that because the tests literally state when (to a methematical probability) when conception occurred. On Saturday I was told the test just changed to 2-3 from 1-2 (with the months indicator?!) , but then yesterday she says she would be close to 3+ now if she peed in the morning because she's being doing the others in the afternoon.

Anyway, I think her plan is to get me to excuse her behaviour over a longer period of time due to being pregnant, where in reality we've been broken up for a week, plus the week or two before that where this occurred.Then get back in to a relationship (somehow).

My strong preference is that this does not go ahead. I'm struggling to trust what she's saying vs what the "science" says.

Morally it's tough because the only way she won't go through with it is if I say I won't be there for anything, no scans, no appointments, no involvement etc. A hint of being there she will go through with it.

I'm m struggling with the idea that I have to be an absolute bastard with reverse manipulation to get to an outcome that won't have child involved in a horrible situation, alongside my obviously selfish desire. (which is reverse of what I'd actually do)

I'm finding it hard to reconcile the idea that she didn't tell me about not taking BC, and is trying to move the dates around to fit a better narrative and drag me through the mud.

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TheShellBeach · 09/07/2024 10:58

She's right though.
Pregnancy is dated from the first day of the last period.

The weeks indicator need two more weeks added to give the correct gestation.

So if the weeks indicator says 3 weeks, it means the woman is five weeks pregnant.

TheShellBeach · 09/07/2024 10:59

Conception may have been between 13th - 19th June. It may have been earlier.

Do you know the exact date that her last period started?

TheShellBeach · 09/07/2024 11:02

My strong preference is that this does not go ahead

Charming. It isn't your decision.
Presumably you didn't bother using a condom?

Kinshipug · 09/07/2024 11:05

Op the test obviously said weeks ans you've remembered it wrong. Why were you having unprotected sex with someone you've only known a few months and didn't want to commit to? Unfortunately, as you will now learn, play stupid games win stupid prizes.

YaWeeFurryBastard · 09/07/2024 11:09

You’re getting confused, the clear blue weeks indicator is a common test, there is no test with months on it, everything you have described sounds correct for a weeks indicator test. They are not 100% accurate due to HCG differing woman to woman. It seems like you’re trying to catch her out but everything she’s said is perfectly plausible including the pregnancy dates.

Time to man up and have a grown up conversation with her.

Vddz1815 · 09/07/2024 12:58

OK thank you - why she said 2 to 3 months I don't know but this clears it up for me

Not trying to catch her out I just want to know why the time frame escalated overnight, probably both misreading.

OP posts:
TheShellBeach · 09/07/2024 13:16

Do you know the date of her LMP?

Sjx424 · 09/07/2024 18:04

I’m really sorry but she is clearly pregnant and you’re attempting to convince yourself otherwise.
Maybe instead of posting here maybe you should sit down and have an adult conversation with her rather than attempting to prove her wrong.
Time to act like a grown up.

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