Peeing on sticks at MW appointments

Ok, having a discussion with SIL about this. At EVERY appointment with EVERY MW and OB I have had to pee on a stick each time. But she never has to unless its near the end of the pregnancy or her BP is up.

I thought everyone pees on sticks. She thinks I must have something wrong to have to do it...I know that is not the case.

So I thought I'd just see what the masses do. I wonder if its a regional thing so tell me if you do or dont and what region are you in?

I wasn't peeing on sticks until later on in the pregnancy, like sometime after 20 weeks.

We're in Hamilton, and it was every time

We were in Tauranga and i peed on a stick at every visit with both pregnancies.

ETA isn't it fun trying to pee on a stick with a huge belly in the way. Haha.

Edited by DebandKaelen

DebandKaelen wrote: We were in Tauranga and i peed on a stick at every visit with both pregnancies. ETA isn't it fun trying to pee on a stick with a huge belly in the way. Haha.

We're in Invercargill and I had to pee on a stick every time (well technically I was winton)

And my due date thread had a big chat about this. There were a few of us soooo paranoid about peeing on out fingers etc etc I told my midwife and eventually she gave me a wee thing to pee in then I could dunk the stick. Cos when you can't see, it's a bit hard to know where to put the stick

I'm in Palmerston North.

I think in our Due in Thread there was a bit of discrepancy in who was and wasn't peeing too.

I've had to pee on them right from my first appointment at 6 weeks, and im in Whangarei.

Always peeing on a stick here in cantab. They are a bit little and fiddly for the late pregnancy arent they, the ones i get are only about 3 inches long

Cambridge with #1 and I had to do the dipstick every time.

Manukau with #2 and didnt start doing dipstick til halfway through pregnancy

This time I'm shared care between GP and hospital, and all my hospital mw appts I've done a dipstick test (18w, 24w and 28w) and I assume I've had to get one done at all my GP appts too as I've peed in a cup each time and the nurse comes through and tells GP urine test was clear??

I've always peed into one of those big square plastic (or tinfoil at hospital lol) containers, then just dipped the stick in, tip urine out and throw container away, never pee'd on them directly?

With DS I had to pee on the stick from around 14 weeks (2nd appt) and would arrive, go pee as the sticks were in the bathroom anyway, then sit in the waiting room and she would ask for the results as I was walking into my appt.

This time (different MW) same thing, started at 16 weeks, arrive, pee, wait, get asked result as I go in to see her.

I'm in Auckland