In my recent organizing madness, I tackled my medicine cabinet. Alongside expired Benadryl and An*lpram (what? don’t pretend like you don’t have An*lpram in your medicine cabinet, especially if you’ve ever given birth), I found the pregnancy tests from both Carson and Ella.
I suspect some of you just barfed in your mouth a little because, “OMG THOSE STICKS HAD PEE ON THEM AND I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D SAVE THEM!” Well, yes. Yes they did have pee on them, but they also were the first bearers of the best news I ever received. Finding these sticks was such a surprise, even though I knew they were in the medicine cabinet. These three peed-on sticks reminded me of what it was like, finding out that Tate and I would be welcoming a tiny, real, live HUMAN BEING into our family.
The first test I took when I “suspected” I was pregnant with Carson was only barely positive. Actually, I didn’t really suspect I was pregnant, it was more like hopeful, and I took the test earlier than they recommended. The line was so faint that I thought it was possible that there could have been a malfunction with the test. I waited a few (BRUTALLY LONG) days and took a second test that was positive immediately. Tate and I sat on our bed looking at each other and laughing and crying. We could AND we couldn’t believe it.
Then just 10 months later, another gift, another positive pregnancy test. Tate was in the shower while I paced back and forth, the stick in hand. I was almost skipping with delight, but every few seconds I would have a nagging feeling of WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, but mostly there was elation. It makes me sad that I don’t remember exactly how I told Tate, maybe I blurted it out as soon as he got out of the shower…or maybe I showed him the positive stick.
These already fading memories is exactly why I still have these peed-on, semi icky sticks. They are a tangible reminder of those two moments that announced the most amazing, frightening, best things that have or will ever happen to us.
I’m going to put them back in the medicine cabinet so that I can find them and remember all over again.
AWE xo
Love it.
I saved ours too
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I saved my tests too! But I don’t know which tests go with which kid. Oops.
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I did that, too and forget they were in my bathroom drawer. Months, maybe years later, I found them…much to my dismay.
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AWE!!
I have ours saved too… even the one from the doctors office where the doc said it was positive and her nurse argued that it wasn’t (um, it was)
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I took several pictures of our + test way back when, before I trashed it. (really, several, like I had to get the perfect angle or mood lighting or something)
But after staring at – tests for the past 2.5 years, ugh. I never want to see a pregnancy test again!
I didn’t keep any of the ones from Alexis, but that’s mostly because I never did manage to get one that came out positive. Somebody has to be that 1% of false negatives, I guess.
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I kept some of mine for awhile (4 kids, many pregnancy tests) but once we moved, I tossed them. Having them is a tender memory!
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I may have gotten a little choked up at “They are a tangible reminder of those two moments that announced the most amazing, frightening, best things that have or will ever happen to us.” My tests are in the bathroom. Our kids are 3 and 5.
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All I remember about mine is reading the instructions about 27 times to make sure I knew how to do it right. It’s peeing on a stick (how hard is that?), but I was sure I could mess it up. And saving them? Strangely never occurred to me. Sad.
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My pregnancy test for my first child resided in my freezer until we sold the house and moved a few years later. I have no idea why I thought that was the right place for it.
My oldest child’s test made it into a baggie with her baby box stuff. The younger? Yeah, it was in the junk drawer last time I saw it.
(Not a reflection on the children, mind you. More a reflection on how the second child gets the shaft.)
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What is this An#lpram stuff you speak of? I’m beginning to suspect my an#s was cheated out of something nice.
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I think it must be the month for pregnancy tests and/or pregnancies and/or babies. Thankfully, none of it from me.
I was going to save my pregnancy tests, but then the whole pee thing got to me after a couple of days and I didn’t know if they’d start to smell or deteriorate something. I know, it’s stupid. But yeah.
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I have one in my medicine cabinet,too. I think it is from this pregnancy….and I plan on using it the next time my husband really pisses me off.
That brought back memories. Such exciting moments!
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I love that you saved them. I saved mine for a few months, but then got a little ooged out of them so they were tossed.
Now I kinda wish I’d kept those plastic pee-stained sticks.
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I think it’s cool that you saved them. I would have done the same thing but I have always gone to a doctor’s office where the preggie tests are free.
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I recently cleaned out my bathroom and made myself throw away the 8 or 10 pregnancy tests I took with my twins (so yeah, after losses and 2 rounds of in vitro we had a hard time believing the good news). I took a picture before I parted with them, but your post has me wishing I had held on to them. But I’m glad to learn I’m not the only one who held on to what’s basically old pee!
I saved mine through my pregnancies and just got rid of them recently. It is fun to remember
Oh, I wish I would have at least photographed mine. I tossed mine and now I regret it. Hold on to them!
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I didn’t keep the tests…and LOL’ing about the an*lpram….my hubby ishaving to use that right now and I laugh at him every single time….his MOM mailed it to him(shes a gastro nurse)
I saved my pee sticks, too. I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Hey someone will invent a “Pee Sticks” engraved shadow box…you MARK MY WORD.
(Ssshhh. I sometimes secretly wish that I could take one of those tests again.)
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i didn’t keep mine from casey or jonathan because i was the flipping miscarriage queen at that point and thought it would be bad luck… i have two from stephen though and hope they don’t ever get tossed out.
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Not only do I still have mine, too, but I actually gave one of mine (I did a new one every day for a week just to be sure) to my mom in a pretty bracelet box as the way to tell her the news. Only another woman would appreciate it and not think it was disgusting. She got it right away, but my dad was all “WTH??”
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I kept all eight tests. Yep, I took eight for my ONE CHILD. It took us a year to get pregnant so I wasn’t so trusting, apparently.
What’s funny is that most of them were digital tests so now I just have blank tests to look at. Not as sweet.
I had to throw mine out from Avery when we moved overseas…and then again when we moved back (Ansley), but I wished I hadn’t. Does that make me icky too? I hope so
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I have mine also.
And I had to laugh at the WHAT HAVE YOU DONE comment. I remember thinking the exact same thing. A YAY thought and then a WOAH. haha And mine ended up twins. 
I also have my ‘pee’ sticks! The first one, was also *really* feint, almost unbelieveable. The second one was more believeable, and I vividly remember taking a photo with my cell phone, and sending it to my husband who was in a meeting at work at the time. He thought I was kidding.
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I have mine,….in a zip lock in their baby boxes,…note that they do not have *books*,..just a box of stuff that may be crap- but I couldn’t part with it!
love this,….
I saved mine for a very long time, but I think my husband finally threw it out…he’s a bit of neat freak.
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Mine are all saved, dated and have their special part in my ‘memories box’ – the junk drawer of my past.
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no judegment here for saving the tests. my husband and i did ivf for both children, and we actually still have the petri dishes that were our boys’ first homes. how is that for crazy?
fun times!
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Funny, I just came across mine too–in the pencil holder in my husband’s desk drawer. Grody. But grody or not, it still made me misty-eyed. So glad you kept yours too!
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I kept mine too. Grosses my husband out every time he finds them. Oh well.
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I have my pee sticks too! Both taken when hubs was at work, I’m one of those “MUST TEST ALONE” types in case I have to have a meltdown. The first was late late at night, in the middle of a world of warcraft died. I’d died prematurely thanks to the spanish interwebs so I went ah what the heck, this is “morning” for me, I’ll test. Boom, baby!
Second was a few days early, not thinking anything would show up yet when it went ZOMG POSITIVE instantly. Hubs being at work really sucked this time because I couldn’t reach him by phone. I think everyone in the country knew before him, he found out the next day.
Nooooo clue where they are though. Too many moves in too quick a succession!
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Hilarious!! I still have mine, too. It’s funny to think that the seemingly crazy things I do aren’t so crazy. Well, maybe they are, but at least I’m not alone!
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I kept three tests from when I found out I was pregnant with my little koala munchkin too (now 4 months)- and I actually bought them with me back overseas. I wonder if customs x-rayed them and thought “what the hell?”
They are the little cardboard kind (no plastic) so I stuck the in his baby journal. I am almost certain he will NOT BE thrilled with that when he gets older and figures out what they are!
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Oh, wow! What a great thing to stumble across.
Now I wish I’d kept my positive pregnancy tests; I well remember that amazing SQUEEEEEEEE! moment of realising that I was – indeed! – pregnant with my boys.
Magical.
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um, when you say “10 months later” please please please don’t tell me that you got pregnant with Ella when Carson was 1 month old. That is just too cruel.
Did you get pregnant with Ella when Carson was 10 months old? please say yes.
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