Are you positive? (part 1)

I got my first positive test on Monday when I went home for lunch. I took a cheapie Internet test and thought I might see something on there. It was not a definite line — more like the lightest line in the history of positive tests — but it was a definitely departure from seeing the whitest white negative tests (seriously, they couldn’t have been more white) for all those other times. I took a digital OPK, which can often double as a pregnancy test, but that turned out negative, though not surprising given how light the initial line was.

I decided to buy some real tests that night. We took Baby B to swim class, then on the way home I stopped at the pharmacy to get some.  I didn’t want to alert The Husband to what was going on yet because I didn’t want to get his hopes up, so I just told him it was a surprise why I was stopping when he was asking why we were there. And he almost wouldn’t drop the subject, the nosy fella!

I waited until after Baby B was in bed and The Husband had gone running. I took the First Response Early Result test first, seeing a very, very light line (though I could at least get a picture of it, which was not the case with the first test). The Clearblue Easy digital test isn’t as sensitive, so I didn’t think that would turn a positive result, but it did.

I’m not really the kind of person to tell The Husband such information in an elaborate, cutesy kind of way. So my plan was to just hand him the test and say, “Surprise.” I went to pick up the test and lost my grip on it and it fell behind — and under — my dresser, a piece of furniture that takes two people to move. I wedged my arm back there and twisted it every which way to retrieve the test, which I finally did after a bit of frustration. So I go to The Husband, who was recovering from his run, hand him the test, and say, “My arm is HURT! But here’s your surprise.”

I called the RE on Tuesday morning and they had me go to the lab for a blood draw. The hCG should double approximately every 48 hours, and I asked if I would have a second draw, but The Nurse said The RE doesn’t usually do a second draw unless the first number is a concern. I asked if I could request a second draw either way, and she said that was fine. I got my number when I called later that afternoon, and was told that it was 25, which was low for where I was at, though the nurse was nice and tried to be optimistic. She said to go to my draw on Thursday and we’d see what the numbers did.

So I’ve been to the lab already this morning and will call for my results later this afternoon. I did take another digital test this morning and the result came out positive. Now, that’s certainly no indication that the number has doubled like it needs to, so I’m not getting my hopes up, but at least it wasn’t negative, which would not have been good at all.

Please let this day go fast (though with it being my last day before the holiday weekend, something tells me that it will not). Will update either way later this afternoon.