Looking foward to Christmas with my wife, kids and our new baby on the way!
Looking foward to Christmas with my wife, kids and our new baby on the way!
Member since:22.06.2007
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Now why on earth would I, a man, be writing about this? Surely I am no medical miracle and the first man to become pregnant, no, but I am a husband and a daddy of 2 wonderful children and in our history of trying for children the wife and I have experienced many different brands of these tests. We've been talking a lot recently about an expansion to our brood. This is a test we are unlikely to use again, i'll explain below.
Most people know the drill with pregancy tests certainly with the basic ones, digital ones are a bit more complicated apparently we've never used one though. Anyway the boots pregnancy test came in a pack of 2 and we paid £8 for it, they come singley too. Each test was seperately wrapped and there was also detailed instructions to follow in the box. The test itself is a white plastic stick with a clear cap covering the felt like material strip and windows in the main handle to indicate pregancy or not.
You, or rather your wife/partner if you're a man like me, have to hold the felt end of the test in the urine stream for 5 seconds. My wife has no problems doing this, after being pregnant before she's used to having to wee accurately, considering all those urine samles she had to give during her midwife visits. My wife insisted on doing the test first thing in the morning as apparently the hormones are at their highest level then and so are more likely to show up on the test, it's not neccessarily what you might want to be doing at 7 in the morning when you'd rather be hiding under the duvet but who's going to argue with a determined female.
So I wait until she's done the neccessary deed and she returns from the bathroom, thankfully with the cap covering the wet bit, and we wait for the lines to appear. Rather disturbingly you can see the "liquid" travel up the fabric of the test and start to reveal the lines. The first window is the one that says if you're pregnant or not and the 2nd is for control, if that one doesn't get a line then the test didn't work properly.
After a minute or so the lines had appeared one horizontal line in the first window and one vertical in the control window. So the test had worked but the result was negative, she wasn't pregnant, you need a cross to appear in the first window for it to be positive. She was dissapointed and initially accepted the result however I know she wasn't really convinced and she sneaked off the next day to buy a different brand of tests.
Her instincts were right, the test she took the next day was positive, she was pregnant after all. The Boots test, while it had worked, had not been accurate enough to give the correct result, she thinks she did test quite early despite having waited until her period was late so perhaps it is simply that Boots tests aren't as accurate as some fancier brands.
In our future attempts to add to our family we are unlikely to use these tests again, my wife is one of those impatient ladies who likes to know straight away and I don't think she'll trust one of these again.
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Nov 10th, 2007
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