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HELP! Is this a positive test?

There is a very (very!) faint line. I am only 5 months pp and freaking out because my baby is still so small, I wasn’t tracking my cycle so no clue when ovulation happened.

Is this a positive test? Does how faint the line is have a bearing on how healthy or viable the pregnancy is?

TTC

Hey so me and my fiancé have recently discussed our future plans and have decided to start trying for our second child, our first was just kind no contraception and chancing it and kind of a ‘what will be will be’ as we wasn’t sure if I could conceive due to history of issues within my family however this time we’re really trying and I was wondering if anyone has any advice or tips or anything? As we want to of conceived before may next year.

Rhesus negative

I’ve been told today ( at my 28 week appointment) that I have a rare blood type, I’ve had the anti D Vaccine afterwords, I’m just a bit surprised that no one has mentioned it until now / nor has my baby been tested when they said it could be a risk of our blood mixing and causing antibodies? Has anyone else had this, should I be concerned? ( for context I’ve given blood loads in my life and I’ve never been told that I have a rare blood type before now, nor did my mum know anything about it!)

Is this dark enough for how many weeks I am?

I’m sorry girlies. I’m probably expecting too much so early on.

I’m reading so much about “dye stealers” and mine are like this. It’s worrying me. I’m smashing through the tests waiting to see a darker line.

Granted this is a cheapie, my clear blue ones have said “1-2 weeks”. I used a clear blue on Monday (when I first found out) and then this morning.

I’m hoping it’ll say “2-3 weeks” next week for some reassurances

In the mean time, the cheapie/traditional ones are this faint 😩.

4 weeks 6 days xxx

Indent or positive

Is this a positive or an indent? Ive got a four year old and 6 month old and when I took it this morning it said negative in the 3 minute window but I had to leave the test and came back to it hours later which I know makes it invalid. Does it look positive or an indent? Should I do a pink dye test instead

Telling kids about seperation

Hi all, my partner and I have recently split and plan to tell the kids this weekend. Im feeling sick about having the conversation....are there any words of advice on how best to deliver the news to the kids? They're all 5 and under so I guess mainly my 5 year old will understand what's going on....

Sweep 39 weeks

I have a sweep on Wednesday and really nervous about going should I just miss it or is it worth going ?

9DPO Two faint positives one negative

Negative test was taken 2 hours after first positive.
Found out by mistake and routine appointment

Am I seeing this right?

Got slight cramping
Been sleeping lots
Weeing non stop
Increased appetite
Headache

Am I at Peak ?

Hey guys I am wondering is this peak ovulation or no ?
Sorry new to this strip test and I’m trying to figure it out.

Pregnant?

My period hasn’t come (and it’s always on time) but all my pregnancy tests are negative.
Has anyone had this before?
Has anyone not tested positive for a few days after their period?

When I had my first baby I think I got my first positive the day before I was due on so I’m confused!

Birthing ball

At what stage did you start using a ball? Im looking into getting one but im only 23 + 4

Am I seeing things..

Bottom test is from Wednesday lunch time and Top is from second morning urine today (Friday)

Is there a faint line on the top test or am I seeing things??

Boundaries when baby is here

How is everyone going about telling family members about when they want visitors, and not kissing baby. I didn’t fuss to much with my first born as she was born during Covid and no one could come round and obviously there frequent testing when sick, but now being due in a few weeks and it coming into cold and flu season, I just don’t feel comfortable with it, especially because all family members are around kids and we all know how kids catch everything 😂

Anyone having their transfer tomorrow or this month??

Anyone having a transfer tomorrow? Or, this month, my frozen transfer is tomorrow, and I'm looking for others doing it.

Blood Type

Does anyone else have a negative blood type?

I’m O Negative (my partner is O but we don’t know positive or negative). They will test my blood again at the dating scan and predict the baby’s blood type. Has anyone had or been told they will have to have anti D injections for different blood types?

Stark negative?

This is stark negative right, no sneaky faint lines right?

Scared to take a pregnancy test

Hey,
So I am almost a year into my TTC journey and my period is late. I want to take a test but I'm scared about seeing another negative test. My mental health has definitely been impacted by the TTC journey. Please can I have some encouragement/support. Should I take one or keep waiting - I'm about 3-4 days late.

Is this normal?

Hi ladies.
First pregnancy here. So a little inexperienced.

Found out Monday with a clear blue “1-2 weeks pregnant”.
I’ve bought some of the basic dip tests now so that I can test every few days to make sure the line is getting darker. Anyway did first one today.

The line is soooo faint.

I think I’m panicking a little as I was expecting it to be a bit darker after having such a “pregnant 1-2 weeks” in plain writing.

But then again… novice here - would it even be this dark so early on?

By medical standards I’m 4 weeks 4 days (going from the first day of my last period).

I’m probably expecting a bit too much xx

I have a 22 month old but my body is telling me have another

I wanted to wait until he was 3 for another but I went through such a weird thing where I was craving another baby. Didn't help that I had dreams too. At first I thought "oh ovulation" but then it lasted for a month and more and I knew it was not ovulation.

Anyone else had the same feeling