Pregnancy – Home Tests And Early Signs
For some women who are trying to get pregnant the key sign to success is a missed period. But there are earlier signs you can watch out for varying from woman to woman in form and strength. Sickness can start as early as a few days in, other have bloating, and others say they have tightening feeling in the stomach.
The earliest time you should really take a pregnancy test is 2 weeks after conception as there is not enough hCG in the body to detect otherwise, even using a sensitive home pregnancy test designed to be used for early testing, before a missed period. But by testing earlier you are losing some of the accuracy – the highest accuracy per cent sensitive tests give if you test before a missed period is 90%. So if you get a negative result you may still want to wait and see if you get your period. If you do not, you need to retest again.
The changes that can occur during the early stage of a pregnancy include: Being very tired. Vomiting (morning sickness though it can happen any time of day). Light spotting of blood can happen 3 to 12 days after ovulation. Being bloated. Craving foods, sometimes odd combinations. Needing to pee more often. Breasts being tender to the tough, feeling swollen, and blue veins visible on them.
Women are all different in how their bodies react to the hormonal changes their body is undergoing. In some symptoms are severe and make them miserable, in others they are later on in the pregnancy and might be very mild.
Home pregnancy tests can give you the answer to your question am I really pregnant. They are easy to use but you do need to follow the instructions carefully, whether using a test strip as you pee, or peeing in a cup and then sitting it in the urine. Test are not all the same, some are digital, some are more sensitive, so choose carefully. However they do all work the same way, looking for hCG in your urine. If you are confident about the result even after a re-test, see your doctor and they can either do their own urine test, take blood for a lab to test and may also do a pelvic examination.
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