I am sure the below information is going to gross people out. I am so sorry for that. I am fully aware of how gross this may seem – however, I know I am not alone. So here it goes….
The four positive pregnancy tests that confirmed what I was already thinking are hanging out in a box in the back of my medicine cabinet. Yuck? I cannot bring myself to throw them away.
I remember like it was yesterday when I took those tests. The moments that I watched two pink stripes appear. The moments that I knew my world would change for the better. The emotions I felt. The reaction my husband had when he found out I was pregnant. I remember it all. How can I dispose of those?
I tried to throw them away once. We were packing to move to our current home. I was around four months pregnant with our second child and cleaning out my bathroom drawers. I found the box. Thinking that they were unused tests I opened it. There sat four positive tests. As I stood in the bathroom where I took all of them I contemplated releasing the mementos I had peed on. I was emotional because of my pregnancy state and uprooting my family, but I couldn’t bring myself to drop them in my discard pile. Was it because at that point, I didn’t think we would be adding anymore to that box (and we still might not be)?
Even now, two and a half years after our move, I still cannot find the strength to actually let them go. Maybe someday. But today is not that day.
Now don’t get me wrong – I will not be putting these in baby books (if those ever get completed). Nor will I be presenting them to the girls as a, “Hey, look what I found!” moment. In fact, I will probably never actually remove them from said box. So they just sit there. In a box. In the back of the cabinet.
Hah, this is totally me. 🙂 I don’t even know which one goes to which kid, but yes, I still have all three.
Right there EXACTLY with you! I found out I was pregnant with my first/only the week before I turned 43, I thought it was early onset menopause or something. I still have those 4 tests in the second box of pregnancy test I bought. I drove to Walgreens and bought the most expensive test because I thought surely the two EPTs from Dollar General were wrong. I seriously think I’ll keep them, wrap them up and give them to my daughter one day as a joke gift! Glad to know I’m not the only hoarder!
Hi,
I don’t have over the counter pregnancy test. I learnt that I’m pregnant when I went to see a doctor due to what I thought was ‘flu’. But I was wrong, I am pregnant. So I kept all the documents, prescription receipt, all including the first ultra-sound lols.
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