pregnancy test obsession?
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Topic: pregnancy test obsession?
Posted By: Yvonne
Subject: pregnancy test obsession?
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:18pm
| Does anyone else get the urge to keep doing pregnancy tests "just to confirm" that you're still pregnant? I'm 7 weeks now and symptoms are intermittant and sometimes it's hard to believe I'm pregnant. I've taken 4 tests in the last 2 weeks (all pos of course). |
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Posted By: newme
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:21pm
| I think the price of them would put me off! |
Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:40pm
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Ha, with Ty I did 8.
Then I went to the dr and she told me "in my 20 years as a gp I have only ever come across one false positive, if you got 8 positives...you're pregnant...but ok, you can do another one, you know where the bathroom is ! "  ------------- 
http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:56pm
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Only 4 in two weeks?! Hehe. I did 5 in a few days with my first pg and another when I went to the doc (altho he said something along the same lines as Kelly's doctor lol).
Nothing like seeing those two lines come up eh  Congrats!!------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: kayess
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:59pm
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I did the same when I had my daugther - felt so surreal and I kept wanting to confirm.
I think in the end I only did maybe three or four tests over the course of about four weeks - but if I have to be completely honest I would have tested every day if I could have... 
If it makes you feel better then I say test away! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 04 October 2010 at 9:25pm
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i confess i did about 20 with each pregnancy:) lol... be careful though with Liam i did one at 8-9 weeks and it was lighter..totally normal but omg I nearly freaked! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 7:56am
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Hehe thought you were gonna say you'd taken 50 or something
I did 4 tests with my daughter, and, err, 12 with this one  I had lots of cheap tests from the internet though. After the 12th one (at 5weeks) I had to quickly give away all my leftover tests to stop me doing any more 
But yes I still get the urge to poas lol but am not gonna fork out for pharmacy ones so should be safe from anymore testing! ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 8:03am
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Good lord I did about 30 with this one (internet cheapies) but I did catch the pregnancy very early and threy were barely there lines...
Its normal LOL -------------   
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 8:36am
| I'm 24 weeks and i STILL want to do tests, if they werent so expensive i'd be all over it. |
Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 9:03am
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The first one I did was so obviously positive that is all I needed!
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Posted By: zed11
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 11:20am
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I have done eleven in the past two days.
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 12:28pm
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I did 15 this time around (only counting the ones that were +ve), internet cheapies, Quickstream and First Response. I finally stopped when i got 2 dark lines ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 1:41pm
| i too would do more tests if I could afford it. |
Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 2:14pm
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for the 2 weeks after I got my BFP I did 2 ICs a day, plus I also did 3 FR dip sticks, 1 FR midstream and 3 quicksticks... after these 30 or so tests I was satisfied I was in fact pregnant ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 10:06pm
haha 4 tests in 2 weeks is actually good! I did soooo many tests with my first! Wasted so much money  but I am a POAS addict!!!!
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 12:07am
lol lol This is bringing back so many memories of the gazillion HPT's I did with Jackson  
I think you're doing just fine ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 2:39pm
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It definately does become somewhat of an addiction doesn't it?!! I did about 8 in the first few weeks of my pregnancy until DH caught me one day and laughed, was a bit of a wake up call as to how ridiculous I was being haha -------------  
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Posted By: SnuggleBear
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 3:16pm
i did a gazillion (about 40 id say) one every day for at least four weeks, sometimes more than once!!! lol...but they were internet cheapies and i was a total POAS addict!  ------------- Ds1 - 20 months old Ds2 - 4 months old |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 06 October 2010 at 3:58pm
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I have a mad urge to go buy a pee stick. I just wanna see the lines come up again!
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