Celebrating Mother’s Day Thanks to a Little Stick #Clearblue #CG #CleverGirls @Clearblue

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I still remember the night about nine years ago that I found out I was pregnant.  I don’t know why but I had a feeling I should take a pregnancy test. It was the first one I had ever taken and while my husband and weren’t using protection we didn’t expect to get pregnant so fast. I picked up a test on my way home from work and that night I peed on the stick. I remember screaming “I’m pregnant” and my husband not believing me at first! Like I said we didn’t expect to get pregnant so fast and it was the first test we took.

Here is where it gets funny. I was in shock too so much so that I thought I was mis-reading the test. I actually called the hotline that was included in the box and asked for confirmation from the representative! I told her what the test said and one of the lines was a little faint which is where my confusion came in. She said though that if I was not pregnant that the second line wouldn’t appear at all.  I can picture myself sitting on the bathtub ledge talking to the pregnancy test hotline!

We didn’t want to rush to tell our family until we had it confirmed from a doctor so we had to sit on our exciting news. It helped that both of our parents lived an hour away and we were both busy with work. To tell our parents we put the picture of the ultrasound in a frame. We told mine parents first and my mom thought it was a joke, then she went hysterical screaming with joy! My in-laws were thrilled as well but my mother-in-law did say she suspected it. Our baby was the first grandchild on both sides, so he was an even bigger deal.

Back then the tests were lines and not words.  Tests were expensive too, well on our newly married budget they were, so I didn’t want to buy multiple tests if I didn’t have to.  With my second and third child I was able to use a digital pregnancy test.  It just said “Pregnant/Not-Pregnant” back then. Now Clearblue pregnancy tests can not only be used before an expected period but they can even tell you how many weeks you are! It is amazing how advanced a pregnancy test can be!

Tests have sure come along way:

From a digital test..

To a weeks estimator…

Or the traditional plus/minus tests:

Here is a picture of the first time I became a mom:

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