To pee or not to pee? That is the question.

If only home pregnancy tests were re-useable - or a little less expensive. We antsy mamas could test away to our hearts' contents without worrying about committing a $10 faux pas each time. Testing would be part of the daily post-ovulation regime - a way to while away the days until a test result could officially be declared.

Being caught in pregnancy limbo - that reproductive holding pattern between ovulation and a positive pregnancy test result - is the grownup equivalent of waiting for your birthday to roll around again, the school year to end, or the holiday season to begin. The agony of knowing that you have to wait this many days is almost unbearable.

Preconception limbo is an almost universal pregnancy rite of passage for women who are trying to conceive - time that you put in as you wait to see whether you've managed to win at this round of baby roulette. While you wait and wonder, you can't help but analyze every tingle and twinge. And so you comb the Web for remote references to early-early-early pregnancy signs and mine the momosphere in search of some equally obsessed pregnancy FAQ junkie.

How did women stay sane in decades gone by when it took hours - even days - to get a pregnancy test result? Or back in the days before there even were pregnancy tests? Perhaps those two weeks of limbo between ovulation and pregnancy confirmation day were Mother Nature's way of providing moms-to-be with some on-the-job training in patience - an essential skill for pregnancy and motherhood.

Increasingly sensitive home pregnancy tests have whittled the wait down to 10 to 12 days, but that can still feel like forever. So, like generations of women before you, you're stuck in pregnancy limbo until it's time to test. Until you know the result of that test, part of your life is on hold - on pregnant/not-pregnant pause.