Having a Baby – Testing at Home
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 Make sure you get a test that suits you, that is not out of date and perhaps get more than one so that you can re-test if you need to!
Pregnancy Test – False Positive
A false positive pregnancy test result means that it detected HCG in the urine. HCG is the hormone the tests look for that indicate pregnancy, it is formed when the embryo attaches to the uterus and comes from the placenta. It is very rare to get a false positive reading as these tests are 99% accurate but there are possible reasons why the result may be a false one.
Causes of False Pregnancy Test Results
It is a hard thing to deal with for parents when they are getting false pregnancy test results. To avoid the difficulties and disappointments it is important to understand how the different tests work, this way you can make sure you are doing everything possible to avoid false results. Firstly make sure you are taking the test at the recommended time, usually this is about a week after fertilization has taken place as at that point the fertilized egg has implanted itself into the uterus and the pregnancy hormone hCG that the tests look for is being produced.
