The Pregnancy Test

When choosing a pregnancy test, I look for a couple things. First of all, I want it to tell me, yes or no,  none of this "faint pink line" business! Don't they know we crazy women can make anything arguable into a positive? It's too much of a mind game. Next, I look for accuracy. I am amazed how accurate they truly are. In my search for the best test, I have found Clearblue to be the best. It pops up quick, easing the torture of the "what does it say?!" scariness. I've heard EPT is also a good brand but I had a bad experience with a test not working and then I was all pissed because I spent ten dollars on it. I like the Clearblue packs with multiple tests in it so when the time comes to be psycho and test way too early and every day, I'm ready! 

As most of you may already know, here's the skinny on testing early. You can test up to 4 days before you're period is supposed to start. It's possible to get a positive, but your chances of accuracy are less, but increase every day you get closer to the period date. Here are the numbers:

Days Before Period        Accurate 

            0                           99%
            1                           95%
            2                           90%
            3                           82%
            4                           51%

As you can see, there is a big jump in accuracy numbers from day 4 to 3. I think that's pretty interesting. It's also amazing to me that you can have a pretty good idea if you're pregnant 3 days before you even miss a period. 

Another thing I love about pregnancy tests....they are trying to identify the HGC hormone that is only produced in pregnancy. So you can't be "kind of" pregnant. If you're producing the hormone, you're  pregnant! You are much more likely to get a false negative then a false positive. Woo Hoo! 

All this is so fun! I love to learn and it's just fascinating to learn about the body and how it all works. And now I feel like an idiot walking around for so many years clueless about the facts with all those pregnancy scares. That statement kind of makes me sound like a slut...hmm! Maybe I shouldn't put that on the internet. But now I'm busting up laughing and anything that makes me laugh stays. Haha I'm going back to bed. 

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