The Faint Line

My monthly period is super on the dot, as well as my Ovulation Calculator which has been, so far, always correct about its predictions. So when my period got missed for a couple of days after my supposedly red day, I started feeling excited that maybe I was pregnant.

Then, I began searching for the most common symptoms of early pregnancy. I did not have much except for fatigue, and extra sensitivity around the breast area. I don't want to quickly believe it was pregnancy because who knows, I might have produced them psychologically in my desire to get pregnant. Haha! :)

A friend advised me to test after a week of delay, to be sure that my HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin levels are high enough to manifest in the pregnancy test. So I did. Many articles online also say to do it first thing in the morning upon waking up, so the concentration is high. And I did that, too. However, the result was negative. :(

But after a few days, my period was still delayed. So I told my friend DK (Doc Karen) what happened. She then told to me that there are really cases like that where in the HCG was very low thus negative results occur. She advised me to take folic acid and then wait until March 25 and took another test.

Today, I took another test. What so funny was, I knew that “two distinct lines” indicate positive pregnancy and so I'm looking for 2 LITERALLY distinct lines. Few minutes later, that is when I saw a very very faint second line. But I doubted it because at that moment it was very faint and so I thought it was still negative. I was asking, why is it negative but still I missed my period for 2 weeks? Then, I told myself that maybe my HCG was very low and the test cannot detect it yet. I almost threw it to the trash can and go back to bed and decided to just wait till afternoon because today is our scheduled check up to an OB-Gyne.

When I got back to bed, what I did was pray. I talked to God and told Him that I am still believing and claiming that I was pregnant because I am 2 weeks delayed. I cried out to Him.. Praying for safe pregnancy and healing for whatever reason the tests was still negative. I also rebuked whatever sickness I may have or have been, believing that my God is my Great Healer.

After praying, I started googling photos of positive/negative pregnancy test results and I froze for a second realizing that almost everyone says: “2 lines” is “2 lines”, and that faint line is still a line! So I got my test again and grew even colder looking carefully at the very very faint second line, which means… I’m maybe positive! Yay! :)

So yeah, turns out I am positive. It was confirmed to us by our OB-Gyne. Yey! Although pregnancy tests never declare 100% accuracy, false positives are also said to be highly unlikely. So if you test positive, to be super sure, go to the doc right away! :)

The faint second line

Very Blessed