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What Does an Invalid Pregnancy Test Mean?

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Are Digital Pregnancy Tests More Accurate Than Strip Tests?

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Blue Dye Pregnancy Test: What Is It?

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What Are Pregnancy Test Strips?

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Does a Toothpaste Pregnancy Test Work?

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Pregnancy Test Line Progression: What’s Normal

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Dye Stealer Pregnancy Test: hCG Levels, Twins & What It Means

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Why Peanut Moms Swear by the Pink Dye Pregnancy Test

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When is the Best Time to Take a Pregnancy Test?

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Can You Get a False Positive Pregnancy Test?

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From the community

Dark test lines

I was 4w1 day (estimated) when I took my test and the likes came up extremely dark where anyone else’s like this?

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negative at 9dpo

this is negative isn’t it 🥲 i will convince myself on every test i do i see a line i have really bad line eyes

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Test

Hi all i got a posative at this morning but this afternoon its lighter should I be worried

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I thought I was out this cycle, but I’m due on my period today and I didn’t come on. Took this test this evening, and this is the result.

Picture taken a few minutes after the test was done, but would this really be as faint as shown on the day of missed period??

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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

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🤞🏻🤞🏻

Is this a faint positive? I have a hard time with the blue dyes

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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!)

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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

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