Why Did Yahoo Know About This Before I Did?

All day yesterday, I got this ad at the top of my Yahoo email screen. And this one. I know that I have signed up for plenty of surveys, and I allow cookies and all, but talk about the end of privacy! I think Yahoo knew I was pregnant before I did.

Well, I kind of knew. First, there were feelings: I had a good feeling about this cycle from the beginning. Then there were those vague early pregnancy symptoms that I'm not sure if I believe in: like the cramping 8 or 9 days post ovulation. There was the fact that, after a month of staying up until at least 1 a.m., last week I suddenly felt the urge to turn in by 10:30.

Here's the test I took this morning:

Can you see the second line? It's faint in real life, but it's definitely there, and according to Peeonastick.com, "a line is a line." It gets harder to see when the image is compressed for the Web. Today is 13 days past ovulation, i.e., the last day of my cycle. I'll test again in a day or two and hopefully will get a stronger positive.

Here is where I confess: This was not the first test I took this cycle. It was, um, the sixth. On Saturday, 10 dpo (days past ovulation), I went and tested. I know, I held out on you, dear readers. I used my last gold-plated First Response pee stick, and nothing showed up. Then, I thought maybe I saw a ghost of a line. Then I went downstairs to start the coffee and got one of my cheapo test strips that I ordered online, took that test, and saw absolutely nothing. Then I looked at my first test and saw there was definitely a faint line, just where I had thought I'd seen something before. But I hadn't used a timer, so I couldn't be sure if this was one of those false positives that can show up if you wait 10 minutes or longer. I didn't THINK it had been 10 minutes already, but still, I was unsure.

Sunday morning, I took two of the cheapo tests. I thought I saw a very faint line on one, but not the other, and Epu asserted he saw nothing. He even told me that I was "seeing what I wanted to see."

Personally, at this point I was pretty sure I was pregnant and what I was seeing was that EarlyPregnancyTests.com strips are NOT as good as First Response for early detection.

Yesterday morning, another el cheapo strip, and there was definitely a faint line after about four minutes. Today, the line in the picture appeared within three minutes.

Here is a little 1st day of pregnancy log (well, tecnically it's the 28th day, and maybe for Yahoo it's the 28th day, but it's the first day I've been in the loop):

weight = 144 (same as prepreg weight with Pebbles, but I'm hoping not to gain 35 pounds this time)
symptoms = none
notes = Just my luck: the first time I've had a bad cold in a year or more, I can't take any frickin' Theraflu. I really hope I get better quickly, because I was hoping to get a good two weeks of getting stuff done before morning sickness hits me like a brick wall.