Make It a Double, I'm Drinking For Two Now

[cuervolinda]

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Clear blue whositwhatnow?

[otis_otis]

1. Having survived many an unwelcome pregnancy scare before deliberately knockin' up Lurlene, I can tell you the pee-sticks only work reliably first thing in the AM.
2. You gotta use Clear Blue Easy because that was the name of my very very failed band in the 80's.
3. I strongly recommend listing every pharmacological substance you have any infinitesimal chance of ingesting over the next 9 months for your doctor. I'm all for better living through chemistry, but nobody wants a mutant baby...or maybe you do.

Swimming Upstream to Spawn

[cuervolinda]

I nearly purchased the Soft Cell pregnancy test, specifically for the 80's tie-in, but it was 3 bucks more. How do you ever know if reproducing is the right thing to do? What if we suck as parents? What if kids are too much work? What if I just really like Moby? My doctor knows all about the Prozac. That's one of the few that they can't pin the two-headed baby on. I did my own research on the Ambien. Although they do prescribe it during pregnancy, I decided to stop taking it because it's still very new.

kids, pregnancy and peeing on things

[anonymous]

If the kids are too much work (and even if they're not)...you hurry up and move to Portland, and make my "life of leisure" a little less leisurely! Also, if you want help researching any pregnancy questions (or anything else for that matter), I'm the internet research queen! So just let me know and I can find answers for you and tell you or send you links

Just Marking My Territory

[cuervolinda]

Well thank God for slutty roommates! Did she have the big Costco box of 24 pee sticks? That could really come in handy. I also like the fact that the blue line meant you were pregnant, or not pregnant. At least you weren't dissapointed with the results. I have tons of crap I need to research on for this. Are you serious? You would offer little old me your time and that young high-performance brain of yours to help? I would really appreciate that. I have gotten really busy at work and have no Web time. :( -L

What did you get for number 3?

[cuervolinda]

How did you feel when you “felt pregnant?” I have little appetite it seems, crazy ass psycho mood swings, no period (moon, in Portland), and think people are conspiring against me at work. Hey wait, that last one? What if Monkey's pregnant too?!! I have a 12-hour plus day at work tomorrow, so it's time to turn in. You don't keep Joe up too late now! He's old like me and we need our rest. Love, Linda

Re: What did you get for number 3?

[anonymous]

I am totally serious about helping you research!! I'd help you on about any topic, but pregnancy is especially good cause it's something I'm interested in too and want to be as informed as I can be by the time I'm ready. And you'll probably help me think of new things to research that I'm not already paranoid about so that's even better hehe

Don't Nobody Know My Trouble But God

[cuervolinda]

Monkey woke me up at 6 today so I could try the second stick. Two sticks, two nos. Poor little gibbon. He was knitting booties to cover the baby's tooties. I guess I am just crazy after all.

The Littlest Otis

[otis_otis]

Get the doc to give you a real test. The confirmation of the littlest Otis' existence was only confirmed by a croaker, er, I mean a doctor, after several pee-stick misfires.
As for conspiring against you at work, I can assure you that with Otis absent, the sad department the couldn't shoot straight in which you toil would be lucky to conspire hapharardly against itself.

Uh-oh, Now You Tell Me

[cuervolinda]

Damn! I wish someone would have told me this earlier. I was so disappointed after the pee-stick incident, I went down to Jackson Heights and smoked a rock before I came in.

How far along was Lurlene when the technology of the pee-stick failed her? I am 5 days late (and counting) so I figured there is no way the stick lies. And I depise the doctor so.

Them Rocks'll Do The Tyke Some Good

[otis_otis]

The long-suffering L is a special case with all kinds of wacky unpredictable hormonal crap to make your head spin and stomach hurt, including entire years with no cycle followed by several with avery reliable one. However, 5 days ain't nothin. I hate doctors too, but get the test - if it turns out negative you can always raid the pharmaceutical sample supply.
And if you insist on going out and buying rocks, please give us a ring. As long as you're going to be in the nabe, you should pop in.

Three-Legged Crack Baby

[cuervolinda]

Good Lord, if I had to go through all that crap I'd have ripped my own uterus out years ago. I am as regular as clockwork. Normally, this would guarantee that I was indeed going to crap out a litter of some sort. But since my well-meaning gyno doc gave me a Nuvaring to try, the hormones in this thing could have easily thrown everything out of wack. Nuvaring is this cat-sized halo plastic ring thing that encircles the cervix and delivers a lethal dose of insanity-inducing hormones for 21 days. After 9 days, I figured out why I felt like jumping in front of the 1-9 each day, and I took the damn thing out. That would bring us up to the 14th day of the cycle, prime baby-making time. So who the hell knows. I am reluctantly going to call up the lab and make some half-assed plan to go in there today. I don't want to get my hopes up again, though. It's a pain in the ass. Or the cervix or something.