Teenage Pregnancies and What to Do About Them
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If you think you may be pregnant you can buy a home pregnancy test kit from a pharmacy to find out for sure. Brook Centres and family planning clinics may offer free tests to teens. If you want a medical person to test you you can visit your doctor or a family planning clinic and it is all confidential.
The home pregnancy tests that you buy come with clear instructions and it is important you follow those instructions exactly so that you get results that are as accurate as possible. The recommendation is to take a test a week after a missed period, or if you were irregular and this is hard to tell, then three weeks after having unprotected sex. You need to wait this long because the hormone the tests look for take some time to show up in enough levels to be detected. If you take a test before that you are likely to get a negative result but it may not be accurate.
When an egg is fertilized it has to travel through a tube to reach the uterus lining, this can take a few days. It is only when that fertilized egg has implanted itself into the lining that the placenta starts making the pregnancy hormone hCG. It is a few more days before that hCG is at levels high enough in your urine for a home test to detect.
If you take the test and it is negative but a week has passed and your period still has not arrived you should take another test. It is possible for stress, poor diet, lack of sleep and other health issues to make a period late but you need to re test to be sure. The sooner you find out whether you are pregnant the better it is for you and the baby.
If you are expecting it is natural to feel a lot of conflicting emotions particularly at a young age. Remember you have options open to you, seek advice from your doctor, talk to your parents or an adult you can trust. Whatever you choose to do at this point is up to you, but try to take advice and comfort from others rather than trying to do it alone.
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