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Two Week Wait & Testing for Pregnancy

Why Early Testing During Your 2 Week Wait

Is Not Recommended


Testing early can seem exciting when you get a very faint line that turns in a noticeable positive over time. However, when it's negative or a possible positive, it can really hurt if those lines continue to look negative or questionable. This can create a cycle of stress and unnecessary testing until you finally get an answer. 

And testing early can be tempting when you're part of online trying to conceive forums. You may have heard of someone who got pregnant before getting their postpartum menstrual. Maybe someone who got an early positive at 8- or 9-days past ovulation and they are pregnant with twins! It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and to be hopeful that this will happen for you.

Surprising and amazing things do sometimes happen during early testing. But it does come with some negatives too. Those negatives are worth considering before making early testing a habit.


Expensive

Early testing can be expensive, especially when it’s spontaneous. Because you’re testing before most fertility monitors, apps, websites, and even pregnancy tests recommend, you’ll need a lot more pregnancy tests. And if you’re buying well known pink dyes brands from the box, such as First Response, you can easily be spending at least $10-15 dollars per box. That is a lot of money being wasted, that could go to something else.

 Longer Two-Week Waits

The long testing can make the two-week wait seem even longer. If all the early tests are negative, you’re still testing until you get to a positive test or your period. Even if you get a very faint positive, you’re still testing to check and double-check it’s still there. That the faint positive is showing up on every brand, and it’s getting darker until you confirm with a blood test.


My Experience



I admit I am guilty of testing early and not always taking the advice of waiting to heart.  Each time, I test early, I regret going down the rabbit hole. I can attest, that advice is there for your benefit. I'll share with you a recent experience with this cycle where I went overboard in My Two Week (My Experience): My 2 Week Wait & The Testing Debacle.

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