Surprise!?!

August 1st, 2011, 5:45 AM

We had just woken up to Jun's phone blaring "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse as her alarm clock.  Time to start the day.  Jun sleepily rolled over and said one word, "thermometer."  With my eyes still mostly closed, I felt around on the bedside table for the basal thermometer we had been using for more than a month now to chart her waking temperature.  I was almost asleep again when I heard the thermometer beep and Jun use her phone as a flashlight to look at the numbers.  I held my breath as I waited for her to tell me what the temperature was.  If it was over 98 degrees again, it would be 16 days of high temperatures in a row.  If you've never really studied the patterns in a woman's basal temperature as it relates to fertility, I'll tell you what 16 day of high temperatures after ovulation means...

Pregnant.

"98.32," she calls out.  We both knew what we needed to do.  We crawled out of bed and walked the short distance to our bathroom and started un-boxing a pregnancy test.  We had a couple of different types of test and I had chosen the one we bought on a whim from a Dollar Tree.  Turns out it's not like the ones on the commercials with the sticks you pee on, it requires you to pee in a cup and then use the included eye dropper to add four drops of urine from the cup to the tester.  We both somehow managed to get this done without getting anything on our fingers and we waited the required 3 minutes.  After the required period of time, we saw this:

Dollar Tree Test... Pregnant

You can definitely see a faint pink line next to the dark red line which means...

Pregnant.

Well, we weren't satisfied with a Dollar Tree test.  Who knows how accurate they are.  For a dollar they may tell EVERYONE they're pregnant.  However, when I think about it, you would think most people who buy pregnancy tests at a dollar store would be hoping for a negative... but whatever.

So I pulled out the big guns.  The Equate brand pregnancy test from Wal-Mart.  This one cost $5, so it must be 5x as accurate, right?. Well, this test requires you pee on the little absorbent tip for 10 seconds and seeing as how Jun had just used the bathroom for the first test, she didn't really have it in her to complete the test as instructed, but she did have enough left to fill up the little cup we were using for the first test again so we just stuck the absorbent tip of the new test in the cup for 10 seconds.  Figure that was close enough.  After another mandatory wait of three minutes, we checked the new test and this is what we saw:

Wal-Mart test... Pregnant

In the circular opening in the new test, you can definitely see the "+" symbol which means...

Pregnant.

Pregnancy Factor of Safety = 2