Pregnancy: You and Your Baby

Pregnancy Tests

If you think you are pregnant, you want to get the correct answer quickly. Check out types of pregnancy tests including home-based ones. Get to know how to apply them correctly and how accurate they are.

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In case if you are experiencing any pregnancy symptom, you can make the pregnancy test right away in order to make sure, if you are really expecting a baby. What kind of pregnancy test should you better use? Are home pregnancy tests so accurate, that you can rely on their result, or will you have to traipse all the way to your doctor’s office to find out whether you will soon become a mother? Read the article and get to know about different types of pregnancy tests, how they work and how accurate are they.

All available pregnancy tests, no matter whether they are urine tests or blood tests, look for a special hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), present in the urine or in the blood, the so – called “pregnancy hormone”, which the woman’s organism begins to produce right after the fertilized egg gets implanted into the uterus, which usually occurs about six days after conception. However, some recently conducted investigations show that in some women it may take somewhat longer for an egg to get implanted. Anyway, the level of the HCG hormone increases rapidly with each passing day of her pregnancy.

Nowadays some home pregnancy tests’ brands promise accurate results already on the day, a woman expects her period to begin, however some of the recently conducted investigations prove that most of the available home pregnancy tests do not give accurate results such early in pregnancy. The best way out is to wait for about one week after a missed period and perform the pregnancy test, which will be about 97% accurate by that time.

Home Pregnancy Tests FAQs
Get answers to the most widespread questions about pregnancy tests, their usage and effectiveness.

Pregnancy Test Accuracy
Investigate how accurate pregnancy tests are and which factors may influence on the results.

Pregnancy Tests False Results
It is possible to obtain false results from your urine and blood test; moreover, these results may be both: positive as well as negative. Learn more about it.

The Blood Pregnancy Tests
If you want to get more precise results on your pregnancy possibility consider taking a blood pregnancy test. Investigate different types of laboratory tests, their benefits and disadvantages.

The Home Pregnancy Urine Tests
Learn more about pregnancy tests you may use at home. Check out their advantages and disadvantages. Get to know how to perform urine tests in a proper way.