Having a Baby – Testing at Home
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For those women who are planning on having a baby, testing at home is easy, convenient, and affordable and gives you privacy to react to the result however you want to. This article gives some tips on how to take home pregnant tests, how they work, where some women go wrong and get false results and how to make having a baby, testing at home and the start of a pregnancy run as smoothly as possible! There are a large number of brands of tests you can buy from pharmacies, stores, and even on-line. Some are more sensitive than others so can be used sooner, some are digital as opposed to working out what certain lines indicate, some are more expensive. Make sure you get a test that suits you, that is not out of date and perhaps get more than one so that you can re-test if you need to!
When to take a test
Thinking of having a baby, testing at home and wondering when is too soon? It used to be that all tests needed to be done after a missed period for any kind of accuracy. This is because all home tests look for the pregnancy hormone hCG in your urine, and this used to be only at high enough levels after a missed period for a test to be able to detect. Nowadays you have a little more choice; there are more sensitive tests that can detect smaller amounts of hCG. However the accuracy rate does still drop a little the earlier you take a test, so it is possible you might get a negative result because the hCG that you have was too little for the test to find. That is why if you take a sensitive test and get a negative result but then miss a period you should re-test. A rough standard guide is given for most women to take a test from the first day of the missed period or if you are irregular and do not know when that would have been, take one about 21 days after you had unprotected sex when you might have conceived.
What is hCG?
All pregnancy tests, blood and urine, look for hCG. A urine test looks for yes or no is there or is there not hCG present, and there are two blood tests, one also a yes or no, and the other measures how much hCG there is to give you a date on how far along you are and when the baby is roughly due. Blood tests are done by doctors though. When a woman conceives the sperm fertilizes her egg but at this point she is not classed as pregnant yet. The fertilized egg has to travel to the uterus which can take a number of days. When it finally gets there it implants itself into the lining and that triggers the pregnancy hormone to be produced and the woman is now classed as pregnant. The hCG levels increase rapidly every couple of days. Some women have enough hCG in their body 7 days after implantation to get a positive result from a sensitive test, but most need to wait longer until they have higher levels.
Having a baby, testing at home – false negatives and false positives
False negatives are possible if the hCG is too low in your body to be detected by the test you use. They can also occur if you do not follow the instructions carefully. False positives are less common. hCG only occurs in pregnant women. If you have been undergoing fertility treatment part of which were hCG injections these can create a false positive where the home test detects the shots rather than real hCG created by a pregnant woman’s body.
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