What are you doing/will you do with your positive HPT?

lts29 · May 2011

Before I got pregnant, I thought it was a little weird that people kept their positive HPT, but now that I'm in their position I'm feeling a bit reluctant to throw mine away. Right now it's just sitting in the box it came in under the bathroom sink and I'm not sure what to do with it. I don't want to throw it away, but I also don't want to construct a shadow box and display it in my living room.

Anyone have a happy middle ground for what to do with it?

christinaramirez08 · May 2011

I threw all 5 of mine away! I used the internet test strips so I couldn't really cover the part that you dip into the urine like you can with an FRER.

I don't see a reason in keeping it. The memory you have of it is growing in your belly and you will get to enjoy him/her for the rest of your life.

pennysuedog · May 2011

Take a picture then toss it! Sorry, but I think keeping them is gross!

vernab · May 2011

pennysuedog:
Take a picture then toss it! Sorry, but I think keeping them is gross!

This!

Roxyroodle · May 2011

Take a picture of it and throw it away.

You can put it in your baby scrap book and you have documented it with out keeping it.

jonnygurl76 · May 2011

pennysuedog:
Take a picture then toss it! Sorry, but I think keeping them is gross!

omg. this.

forensicmama · May 2011

I kept mine around for a day or two. It was digital, so after that time, the battery died and the screen went blank, so I threw it away. Had it not been digital, I probably would have kept it around for a few weeks then threw it away. I suppose you could put it in a memory box for the baby... with the bring-home outfit, first toy, favorite book, etc.

LOL at the shadow box idea! haha

Soon2BMrsSikes · May 2011

They fade after a while anyway, so it's really pointless to keep it.

moviesprincess · May 2011

I still have all of mine sitting under my sink. I know it is kind of gross but I just can not bear to throw them away.

cantalopes24 · May 2011

I wouldn't even take a picture, I don't need to look at something I peed on. When you have the baby you will know you got a +HPT so what does keeping something you have gone to the bathroom on accomplish? Would you keep the piece of toilet paper you wiped with after as well?

UGADawg8 · May 2011

I took a picture and then threw it away once the battery died. There really is no need to keep those around!

awesnap · May 2011

I threw mine away once we had an ultrasound pic. I didn't even want to keep a picture of the test.

forensicmama · May 2011

cantalopes24:
I wouldn't even take a picture, I don't need to look at something I peed on. When you have the baby you will know you got a +HPT so what does keeping something you have gone to the bathroom on accomplish? Would you keep the piece of toilet paper you wiped with after as well?

I took a picture, but just of the word pregnant, not the pee-part. It wasn't nearly as gross to do that IMO.

Junebug060609 · May 2011

Roxyroodle:

Take a picture of it and throw it away.

You can put it in your baby scrap book and you have documented it with out keeping it.

Absolutely this. Mine are already tossed. No way I'm keeping something I peed on for posterity.

Elsa1984 · May 2011

I took a picture of them and I believe that I tossed them......but who knows...they mights still be sitting in the living room under all of our tax paperwork. HAHA!......but if they are, they will be getting tossed after they are discovered.

rkto · May 2011

they are not gross if you didnt pee on them. I peed in a cup and dipped them. Once they are recapped, there is no pee anywhere around them.

I do agree that it is crazy to keep them, but I was in such disbelief that I decided to keep them until the u/s. Then I felt weird throwing them away and I forgot about them. TOday, I told my husband that after the amnio results, I will toss them.

birdnerd2 · May 2011

I kept mine around for about a day because I thought it would change to "not pregnant" at any moment. When the battery died, I threw it away. I did take a picture of the digital screen because I contemplated sending it to my sister as a way to tell her, but I never did it. I ended up telling her in person weeks later.

iggy.d · May 2011

I just threw them away.

mlstagner · May 2011

cantalopes24:
I wouldn't even take a picture, I don't need to look at something I peed on. When you have the baby you will know you got a +HPT so what does keeping something you have gone to the bathroom on accomplish? Would you keep the piece of toilet paper you wiped with after as well?

This!!!! Mine went into the trashcan right away!

Ceridwen21 · May 2011

Threw it out about an hour after taking it. Did not take a picture. I don't understand the nostalgia people feel with this stick that you peed on!

moviesprincess · May 2011

Ceridwen21:
Threw it out about an hour after taking it. Did not take a picture. I don't understand the nostalgia people feel with this stick that you peed on!

For me, after seeing so many negatives, it was such an amazing thing to see a positive test. I know that I have multiple ultrasound pictures, and will have this baby but there is something about finding out that we were starting on that journey that makes me nostalgic about the tests.

Fianschneid · May 2011

jonnygurl76:

pennysuedog:
Take a picture then toss it! Sorry, but I think keeping them is gross!

omg. this.

This is what I did . . . the same night I took them. It is time to throw your old urine soaked sticks out, friend.

cnw112784 · May 2011

moviesprincess:

Ceridwen21:
Threw it out about an hour after taking it. Did not take a picture. I don't understand the nostalgia people feel with this stick that you peed on!

For me, after seeing so many negatives, it was such an amazing thing to see a positive test. I know that I have multiple ultrasound pictures, and will have this baby but there is something about finding out that we were starting on that journey that makes me nostalgic about the tests.

THIS!

I think I probably spent $1000 on HPT's and they all were negative, for a few years all I saw was Not Pregnant, so when I finally saw pregnant, I took a picture and threw them away after the batteries died...It just finally said yes!

PurpleTink · May 2011

I took a picture of mine, and I also still have the test... I can't throw it away. But I think once the Baby is born, I will throw the test away, but keep the picture for a memory book!

Soon2BMrsN · May 2011

I still have all 4 of my positive ones (2 from DS, 2 from this time). Gross, I know, but they're waaaaay back in the cabinet under the bathroom sink.

calliesmom6 · May 2011

moviesprincess:

Ceridwen21:
Threw it out about an hour after taking it. Did not take a picture. I don't understand the nostalgia people feel with this stick that you peed on!

For me, after seeing so many negatives, it was such an amazing thing to see a positive test. I know that I have multiple ultrasound pictures, and will have this baby but there is something about finding out that we were starting on that journey that makes me nostalgic about the tests.

I feel the same way you do. After see a million negatives I was in TOTAL shock to finally see a positive! I was so excited I took 5 more just to be sure it wouldn't "change its' mind". LOL! 2 of the 5 I took were digital and I tossed those after the batteries died but I still have the others. I agree that it is a little gross and I certainly won't be breaking them out at any parties to show off but I just can't part with them. In fact just the other day I took one out a looked at it and it made me smile...and almost cry because of the hormones. LOL! But I really was just so shocked/delighted to have finally gotten a positive one!

Miss Shasta · May 2011

I took a picture of the "pregnant" on one of the digitals, then I tossed them all. Not because they have my pee on them, because the battery died.

dlast09 · May 2011

pennysuedog:
Take a picture then toss it! Sorry, but I think keeping them is gross!

Exactly this, why would you even consider keeping a pee stick?

AshleyEric609 · May 2011

I threw mine out. I'd never save something I urinated on.

happylady07 · May 2011

moviesprincess:
Ceridwen21:
Threw it out about an hour after taking it. Did not take a picture. I don't understand the nostalgia people feel with this stick that you peed on!
For me, after seeing so many negatives, it was such an amazing thing to see a positive test. I know that I have multiple ultrasound pictures, and will have this baby but there is something about finding out that we were starting on that journey that makes me nostalgic about the tests.

Same here! I had seen so many negative tests I was in shock to see a positive!

wendyll64 · May 2011

moviesprincess:
I still have all of mine sitting under my sink. I know it is kind of gross but I just can not bear to throw them away.

Same here. When I see them, I think, "Ewww, gross" but then put them back and carry on. I took pictures so have no reason to keep them. It's just old pee soaked trash... yet, can't put them in the garbage just yet.

StephRuns · May 2011

I took about 234234232 tests, and I took a picture of the digital to keep. Then they all got thrown away.

scarlettoctober · May 2011

I took a picture of the test for my own personal memory, and threw the test away.

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