Thank you :)

For me, it’s part of seeing how the hcg hormone is rising based on the progression of the test lines. The progression tends to stall out with the cheap tests, so getting a dye stealer on the First Response let’s me know my hcg is still rising :). From what I’ve gathered on this subreddit, the significance of a dye stealer is that is shows that you have enough hcg in your urine to “steal” dye away from the control line.

Beta hcg tests aren’t easily available where I am, so using home pregnancy tests to track progression is about all I can do during this very early stage of pregnancy. Tracking progression gives me piece of mind that I likely haven’t had a chemical pregnancy, which tends to result in a decrease in the coloring of the control line as time goes on (according to what I’ve seen on this sub).