Comments on: I Failed An Ovulation Predictor Test by @vdog

By: The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:19:02 +0000

hahaha, I saved you the trouble of modesty and went all-out in my comment above…

By: The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:18:11 +0000

YES, what she said! I used the Fertility Awareness Method and got pregnant after about a month of TTC (both times!).

I was kind of lazy about the charting, but the real money was in the so-called “cervical fluid”. Good lord did that ever work. If it’s clear and stretchy like an egg-white, hump like bunnies immediately. If everything’s in good working order, then voila: Baby.

By: Amy @ Thoughts of THAT Mom

Amy @ Thoughts of THAT Mom — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:27:51 +0000

Okay, I totally win this one.

8 weeks pregnant with TWINS. TWINS!! The home stick? Negative…for a whopping SIX weeks!!! Go to the doctor, tell them I SWEAR I’m pregnant. I promise! I am NOT crazy. (At which point they look at me as if I AM crazy because CLEARLY I am. Who has negative pregnancy tests for SIX weeks and thinks they’re around 8 weeks pregnant???!! Me. The crazy one.)

The doctor does a urine test. Because theirs are so much better than the 538 I had peed on at home. Negative. I beg. I plead. Please do a blood test. Then, I shut up & say, “I’m a crazy woman and will never reproduce again” if it’s negative. They humor me. A woman 8 weeks pregnant with TWINS. They humor me.

My HCG level is through the roof. They do an ultrasound. You’re 8 weeks pregnant with TWINS. How did you NOT have a positive urine test? Because I’m special that way. That’s how.

Again. I totally think I win!

By: Meg

Meg — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:49:57 +0000

I’m with some of the others — pee in a cup. I’ve always done it because I’m afraid that I’ll be the one failing a pee test.

By: Al_Pal

Al_Pal — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:40:14 +0000

For The Lulz.

@Kelley, I remember a 704 post [tweet?] containing the phrase “egg white” in such context before. Don’t know which’a'thems gals used it, since anon, but. It’s out there. ;p

By: Kelley @ Magnetoboldtoo

Kelley @ Magnetoboldtoo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:08:45 +0000

I went totally old skool… I could tell you how but I think you may just vomit.

Egg white is all I will say.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:35:19 +0000

Yeah, that’s why I bought those digital ones. When it was negative, it showed a circle. When I was going to ovulate? A SMILEY FACE! Cuz they are impossible to read.

By: cindy w

cindy w — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:39:14 +0000

Those OPK tests never worked for me. NEVER. You know what did? This book.
http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Charge-Your-Fertility-Reproductive/dp/0060937645

Seriously, I had no clue when I was ovulating either, but then I read this, and was all, “ohhhhh…” (It’s also kind of amazing just for the “holy crap, I had no idea my body did that!” factor.) Got pregnant the next month. No lie.

Oh, and I’m currently in the wait-and-see part of the month too. Maybe we should prepare a cocktail called the Bloody Valentine just in case it doesn’t work out and we need to get sloshed. XOXO

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By: SarahInMI

SarahInMI — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:42:15 +0000

Girl, can’t you just pee into a dixie cup and then dunk the stick?

(I was an engineering student, you know – I’m full of great ideas like this)