You have company over and forget to take out the used pee sticks in the garbage from the night before. Boo Yah! I wonder what our guests thought about that?!
I really do hate pee sticks and it seems that mine are always defective, and when I say defective, I more or less mean my body is defective.
In fact the one night I did get a positive ovulation test I swiftly asked the dude to pee on a new one. Just to see if the pee stick God’s were messing with my mind or they had looked down kindly on me and it actually worked. He of course turned down my request and I burnt another 3 or 4, you know, just in case.
In light of my pee stick debacle I decided to do a little history reading on the dreaded things, but first things first, look at this awesome mug…
Now onto the educational stuff...
It looks like the first pregnancy test was introduced in the early 70’s and was approved by the FDA in 1976; can you even imagine having to wait a whole month before you found out if you were pregnant?! Heck most infertile women I know can barely wait 7 days, and then it becomes apart of her morning and evening routine, just after she brushes her teeth!
Some of the first tests were around $10.00 – a rip off then, a rip off now! Thank the lord for Dollarama. Although if I thought I was ACTUALLY pregnant I would run out and buy one of the Cadillac pregnancy tests for $20, you know the digital ones, it seems a little higher class.
In 1350 BC there is some evidence that the first pee tests came from the Egyptians, a woman who thought she might be pregnant could pee on wheat and barley seeds over the course of several days. If the barley grew, it meant it was a boy and if the wheat grew it would be a girl. If both the barley and wheat did not grow the woman had not conceived. Anyone want to try this theory out for me? I can provide all seeds, soil and pots. Apparently they had done some testing in the 60’s and it appeared be around 70 percent accurate? Weird huh?
Here is one of the first ads that would run in many women magazines such as Vogue and Ladies Home Journal.
Things sure have changed, we now have a test that will predict gender and how many weeks you are...Cadillac, Cadillac long and dark shiny and....back to the post. It is interesting to note that the model is now older and would appear to be more confidant. When I look at the top one I think of a "typical mom", when I look at the second I see an educated career woman.
Last but not least, just when you think you have seen it all. A pretty epic YouTube video, is your husband ready for children? A test for the male populous, his and her pee sticks. I’d say that about wraps up my findings. Night everyone!Love to you…
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Did you ever hear of the rabbit test? That was the most disturbing information I came across one day. Here is a quote from about.com:
Around 1927 it was discovered that if you injected the urine of a pregnant woman into a rabbit, there would be corpora hemorrhagica in the ovaries of the rabbit. These bulging masses on the ovaries could not be seen with out killing the rabbit to inspect the ovaries, so invariably, every rabbit died, even if the woman wasn't pregnant. The phrase, "The rabbit died," came to be a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test after the late 1920 and early 1930s.
I did hear about that this morning from a friend who read my post and I must admit, it is kinda weird! Although the pee stick annoy me I am glad we are out of the phase.
I mean... I have a shit ton of barley and wheat in my pantry. This is intriguing.
Also, knowing this history makes more sense now when I think back to Grease and how Rizzo had to wait for so damn long to find out if she was pregnant or not. I never understood it.
can you imagine waiting TWO hours for the results of an hpt?! agonizing! i wasted so much money on those things. ugh.
Ha, this post was great! I love how they made a guy version. I cannot imagine waiting a month, wow!
Oh the trash can of a IF woman... one time I had vials of Menopur and progesterone supplement applicators in my trash when my husband had a friend over and he used the bathroom. I almost died.
I don't even POAS anymore!
I couldn't imagine waiting 2 hours for a test. Unreal! You are too funny though.
Also, I gave you a blog award today so you're welcome to come check it out!
Ha! About a month ago we had a dinner party and didn't empty the garbage can in the bathroom beforehand, towards the end of the night one of my husband's friends came out of there and said, "boy, you guys had a close call this month, huh?" I was confused until I looked in the can later: about a dozen clearblue monitor sticks, some preseed tubes, and a handful of cheap internet pregnancy tests... yikes!
I'm feeling super lazy now. I started a blog called "the princess and the pee stick" and did NO research on pee sticks, much less your awesome research. I want one of those mugs! lol. Your writing is so uplifting. I can't wait to keep following you on your journey.
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