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Anna & Pete (Australia)
Chapter Five: Two Blue Lines!
The first cycle of IVF did not work. I had
expected disappointment, but I was devastated. We had to start
again. The second cycle was just as bad as the first, the dramatic
mood swings, the depression, the hope, my pessimism, my husband’s
eternal optimism, the injections etc. So I started again.
We were advised not to take ‘home’ pregnancy tests due to the
chance of false positives. I am not sure why I even took the test,
this transfer felt no different from the last. I had found some
pregnancy tests left over from before the IVF. I waited for Pete
(still hearing the nurses’ voices saying a home pregnancy test
could yield a false positive). I took the test.
We watched silently as the first wave of dye rushed past the little
window - one blue line. The second wave of dye rushed past the
window. Nothing. No wait. There was a really, really faint second
line. Could we see the second line, or were we wishing for it so
badly that we saw something that was not actually there? We got the
torch out! There was something there. We were ecstatic beyond
words. We both knew that there was a chance that it was a false
positive, but for that night, we ignored that knowledge. We wanted
to feel normal. For that night, we had two blue lines!
A blood test confirmed the next day, that we were having a
baby.
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