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 Make sure you get a test that suits you, that is not out of date and perhaps get more than one so that you can re-test if you need to!
I had unprotected sex a week ago and want to know if I am pregnant can I take a home test?
Whether you have had planned or unplanned unprotected sex, once it has happened women are obviously very keen to know whether it has gotten them pregnant or not. However a fertilized egg does not mean a pregnant, even if the unprotected sex resulted in sperm fertilizing the egg, that egg then needs to travel to the uterus and that can take between 6 to 12 days or so. Therefore though there are sensitive tests that allow you to test early for pregnancy at home, a week after the unprotected sex may still be too early.
Why is a home pregnancy test more likely to be accurate if I wait until a missed period?
When the fertilized egg reaches the uterus and attaches to the lining the body recognizes it is pregnant and starts making a hormone called hCG also known as the pregnancy hormone, because it is only in your body when you are pregnant. At first hCG levels in your urine are very low. There are some tests that claim they are more sensitive and can detect low amounts of hCG but the earlier you test the less accurate your result might be. It is possible to get a negative result just because you did not have enough hCG in your urine for the test to detect. hCG does rapidly increase though so by the time you reach the day around which your period should have started, there should be enough hCG for most home tests to be able to correctly detect and give a positive result.
What day should I take a pregnancy test?
That depends on the sensitivity of the test you have purchased. The ideal time to take one though for the highest chances of accuracy is a few days after a missed period. However there are tests that let you test before that, but the accuracy does lower slightly as there are chances your hCG levels are too low even for a sensitive test.
The Latest Home Remedy Pregnancy Test Kit
There are a lot of home remedy pregnancy test kits on the market now and for a woman needing to find out if she is pregnant or not it can be daunting. Which ones are more reliable, are more accurate or are more sensitive? Do you want to pee in a cup or insert the stick into your urine stream? Do you want digital results or something cheaper? A woman needs to know that what she chooses is going to be something she can use easily, understand, and trust. So to help you out here is a look at some of the latest home remedy pregnancy test kits on the market right now. This article is based on the latest home remedy pregnancy test kits in the U.S so names may be different if you live elsewhere.
