To test or not to test…

One morning, I was sitting up in bed drinking a cup of tea Matt had brought me.

I turned to him and said: " I feel odd". He laughed and jokingly said: "But sweetheart, you are odd!". But I’d been feeling odd all week. I had hot flushes, some stomach pain, and this funny taste in my mouth.

A few days later, a work colleague was so convinced I was sickening for flu, she tried to persuade me to go home early.

A thought dawned. Was it possible? No, surely not."I think I should take a pregnancy test," I told Matt. He suddenly looked serious. "It would be a waste,” he said.“You’re not pregnant. You’ve only just come off medication for your endometriosis - and you’re not even in a cycle yet." He was probably right. There was no way I was pregnant. Not with my history.

But later, in the bathroom, I opened the cabinet to see some pregnancy tests staring back at me. I’d bought them a few weeks earlier when buying some stupidly expensive "his and hers" conception vitamins.

It wouldn't hurt, would it, to do a test while I took a shower? Matt wouldn't need to know and then at least I could rule out pregnancy as a reason for my oddness.

Ten minutes later, I was standing dripping wet with a towel wrapped around me, staring at the test. There were two lines, one fainter than the other, but definitely two. I read the instructions again.

Maybe I had read them wrong. No, according to the instructions, I was pregnant. I opened the bathroom door, stood at the top of the stairs and hollered: "MATT, come here now!"

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