How Many Blinks to a BFP?
Well, here we are… Sunday. The last day of peeing on sticks for me. It’s a bittersweet day for sure. I’ve spent the last three years peeing on sticks month after month, searching for a hint or a trace of a line, trying to will one to magically appear. But now they are positive. I’ve peed on a stick a day since I got the first positives, and said I’d stop when I got the blood test. I will go in at 8 am (PST) for a blood draw tomorrow and will have the results by noon, so no more pee sticks for me.
It’s hard to come up with a pee stick grand finale. Sure, seeing the lines get nice and dark is great, but how to you really go out with a bang? Well, I think I figured it out. I present to you possibly the first ever pee stick VIDEO! Before you cringe, there is no pee in the video, just the stick.
The last test I had was a Clear Blue Easy Digital and last week, I decided too late that I should have counted how many blinks to a BFP (Big Fat Positive). Well, here you have it. I call this “How Many Blinks”. (I think the volume might be a bit loud, so you may want to turn down your speakers just a tad so as not to have a heart attack).
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It appears that it blinks once per second, and I believe it waits at least one minute (60 blinks) to give a positive, and up to 180 blinks (3 minutes) for the result to be readable. You can see by the test strip why it came up at the 60 second mark this time. The top strip is from the first test at 5dp5dt (10 dpo) and the bottom strip is from today’s at 11dp5dt (16 dpo). The test line is on the left, and yes, the test line is darker than the control line today! You can’t argue with that.
I probably won’t update with my Beta numbers until around noon (PST) tomorrow, as I have to take Calista to the dentist and then preschool after my blood draw. In the meantime, feel free to make a vote on the right as to what the results will be.
If you need some help on the Beta vote:
- With Calista, my Beta was 683 at 17 dpo.
- Tomorrow will be 17 dpo for this pregnancy.
- There are also beta ranges found here (I will be 4.5 weeks at the time of testing) — http://babymed.com/faq/Content.aspx?13459.
- Twins sometimes — but not always — have higher betas.
- Last, but not least, I have read that IVF betas tend to be a little lower than traditional pregnancies.
ETA ~ Sorry the video is a tad dark, I hope you can make out the blinking and the “Pregnant” at the end!
