The Nerve-wreck - finding out that I am pregnant.

I've always tracked my menstruation cycle. Unlike other girls, I don't have normal cycle, mine would last until the 28th day or 32nd day.

But this time around, after I had passed the 28th mark, it felt somehow weird. It almost like I knew something was up with my uterus. But this feeling that I had happened before too, in fact it happens almost every time my period was late in the previous months. I mean, its common for newlyweds right?

So I choose to not think much about it and just wait until I hit my 32nd day marker before I jump to any conclusion. Days passed and I still haven't got my period. And as I hit my 32nd day marker, I decided to take the UPT (Urine Pregnancy Test).

Since its my first time taking it, I read a lot through many blogs and articles on how to do it, which show how nervous I was. I mean, how hard can it be, you simply pee on a stick. Hahaha. But I did find out that, the most fitting time to do the UPT is a week after you missed your period and using your first urine in the morning.

This is because the UPT measures the amount of HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) in your urine - a hormone produced during pregnancy. So the best time to do the test is in the morning with your first urine since the hormone level would be concentrated and to do it a week after you have missed your period because it would be more accurate.

However, since I was too excited, I decided not to wait a week and to just take the UPT right away. So on the 33rd day, I woke up with a sleepy head and wanting to pee so bad that I had forgotten about the UPT and went to the toilet right away. I know right! I wasted my good batch of urine. When I return back to my room and saw the UPT pack on my side table, only then I realized that I had forgotten about it.

But you know what I did? I drank a whole 1.5 L bottle of mineral water just to get my urine going on and I took the test. Hahaha. Talking about concentration. 😂 10 minutes later, the result showed a faint second line. Almost like no line at all. So I thought its a negative. So I went back with living my life normally, not expecting myself to be pregnant and waited for my period to come.

But hey! Days went on, I'm on my 35th day and I still haven't got my period yet. Now I'm getting really anxious, I'm starting to think that it's either I'm pregnant or I'm having an illness. I can't bear the thought of the latter. So I took another UPT on my 36th day. I did it in the morning and with the first batch of urine.

10 minutes later... the result came out... and I'm pretty positive that I am pregnant. #28thofMarch2017