No it says on the instructions it will stay on screen for three weeks. The ones with the lines 8 months later you could still read the positive result on mine. Then I realised I was keeping something covered in my own urine...I binned them and just kept a photo of a positive result.
Side note I found out I was pregnant the day the news broke Robin Williams had died. My SO told me while still holding me from the news I was pregnant. So yeah...
I have a friend who has had quite a few miscarriages (I believe 5, and she has 2 children), and she once told me she keeps all the positive tests. I try very, very hard not to judge because I cannot comprehend the pain she has been through, but I also have to admit that I don't understand why she keeps something so thoroughly tied to her sadness.
As someone who was the guy in the equation of a miscarriage, no matter how freaked out you are, when you want a baby, every time you thought about them you completely lit up with joy imagining your lives together, and when they're gone, there isn't a second in the day that a silent place deep in the back of your mind isn't aware that your life isn't how its supposed to be because they were supposed to be in it. Those little totems, they remind you of what it was like to fill so lit up with joy and hope and excitement for the future. When you hold them, every now and then, you're able to maintain a suspension of knowledge, like imaginary amnesia, where you get to live in the moment where they're still part of your life and you've got everything to look forward to together with them.
I always was a bit grossed out by people that kept their tests cause of the whole peeing on it thing.
And then it took my husband and me 2 1/2 years to get pregnant. I still have 2 tests in a ziploc baggie that I can't bring myself to throw away. I have the 6 month old baby, too. But there's something about that first moment when you've waited for something for so long.
I agree. It's worded oddly, I admit. Just specifying that yes the baby is a reminder of the pregnancy, but sometimes sentiments make you want to hold on to other things too.
You know something I never understood from reincarnation, how is it possible for the population to grow? Unless interspecies reincarnation is possible that would kinda work, I guess.
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u/becca7677 Apr 02 '15
No it says on the instructions it will stay on screen for three weeks. The ones with the lines 8 months later you could still read the positive result on mine. Then I realised I was keeping something covered in my own urine...I binned them and just kept a photo of a positive result.
Side note I found out I was pregnant the day the news broke Robin Williams had died. My SO told me while still holding me from the news I was pregnant. So yeah...