Positively Negatively Positive......I think......
Thursday, August 10, 2006

As you can probably tell by yesterday's post, I was in a kind of a crummy mood. It doesn't help things to be negative....of course, I already knew that.....but last night at church I was reminded that words are very powerful and we can shape our lives with them. The speaker last night brought up the fact that God spoke the Universe into existence with His WORDS. John 1:1 calls Jesus the WORD. In the Garden of Eden, Satan twisted God's WORDS to deceive Eve and cause the rift between God and mankind. When faced by temptation in the wilderness, Jesus Christ resisted sin by quoting the WORD of God. Revelation 12:11 says that the brethren overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb and the WORD of their testimonty. Proverbs 25:11 says that a WORD fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Really, all through the Bible there is much emphasis put on words and their power. From now on I'm going to make an extra effort to make my words positive, edifying, and in line with the Word of God.

Speaking of positive, I took another pregnancy test yesterday because I'm impatient, and I got a super faint barely-there line. I wasn't sure what to make of it. Everything I've read about HPT's says that any line, no matter how faint, means that hCG is detectable in your urine....and you only produce hCG if you're pregnant. But then, there's also something called an evap line, which is just the strip of antibodies in the test line (that would turn pink or blue or whatever the dye color is if the test is positive) becoming slightly visible as the urine evaporates from the test, when in actuality the test is negative. Most of the time evap lines are not the color of control line, rather a greyish "ghost" line or a dent in the test. I stared and stared at the whisper faint line and I'm pretty sure it's a very light shade of pink/lavendar. I know the line didn't show up right away, but I don't think it was past 10 mintutes either.

If I hadn't seen test progressions like these on the internet, I would've just called it a negative.

(tests taken from 9-14 days after ovulation)

(test taken 12 days after ovulation)

These are the same brand I took yesterday and were taken by women who were actually pregnant. I'm not sure exactly when I ovulated, but Babycenter.com's Ovulation Calculator projected that my most fertile time was between July 24th and 29th. If I ovulated on July 29th, that would make me 12 days post ovulation right now. From what I've seen, some people do get VERY faint positives when they test 11 days post ovulation.

Oh my goodness, I'm totally over-thinking this and need to just forget about it for a few days and maybe take another test after this weekend if AF doesn't show.
Oh, by the way, here's a pic of my test:

Don't strain your eyes too badly while searching for the 2nd "pink line". I swear it's there. I'm not crazy....really....I promise.

Labels: pregnancy tests, spirituality, ttc

posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 10:09 AM,

2 Comments:

At Thu Aug 10, 12:22:00 PM CDT, Danielle said...: I do kinda see it! I know you don't want to get your hopes up, but how exciting. I would so go to dollar tree and pick up 5 more tests and then test every morning for the next 5 days...but that is just me.

Just for the record, with this pregnancy, I did get a very faint line and it was after the 10 minutes, so I totally was in denial that I was pregnant but a handful of tests later, I started to beleive it.

You could go to Target and get the digital clear blue easy and it'll read out "pregnant" or "not pregnant"...

I'm so excited to hear back from you about this.
At Thu Aug 10, 04:55:00 PM CDT, Sorlil said...: these tests seem a bit complicated, the ones I used said in the control panel 'pregnant' or 'not pregnant' which made things very easy, do you have access to other test brands that might confirm things easier for you?