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Coping with Preconception Worries

Strategies for Coping Until You Test

By Kelly Burgess

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In general, the fertility provider will retest regardless of the outcome of the home pregnancy test.

Leonard says what's really important during the two-week wait is to create a plan of action for whatever result presents itself at the end of that wait. This plan will help you and your partner through the two-week wait and through these possible scenarios:

A negative test

  • How will you both face the news?
  • Who will you talk to, your RE, a counselor or perhaps a compassionate nurse at your clinic?
  • Do you go forward immediately, or wait for a time and try again?
  • Is it time to consider alternative family building methods such as adoption?

A positive test

  • Normal protocol with a positive result is for a fertility clinic to retest at specific intervals to be sure the pregnancy hormone is rising normally.
  • Do you tell everyone immediately, or share the news judiciously until the pregnancy is fairly well-established?

"Cautiously optimistic is the healthiest way to approach the two-week wait," Leonard says. "Have that plan and put it on the back burner. Think positively, but also keep in mind that at least we know what we're going to [do] either way, without dwelling on it."

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