In a dilemma whether to go for a pregnancy test? If you are perplexed, let me guess! It’s your periods time, but your painful symptoms have not shown up yet, and you are really anxious to know whether you are about to become a mom, but you are not really sure how to confirm!
Before you make up your mind to hit the nearby medical store and buy yourself a pregnancy kit, here are some pregnancy confirmation facts that will ease you and prepare you for the next big step that you are about to take.
Here’s everything that will silence your anxiety and excitement and answer your doubts about pregnancy confirmation. So, basically, this is like a kind of instruction manual that will reveal the unknown facts about pregnancy and guide you throughout the process.
1) How Many Days After A Missed Period Should You Worry?
Did you know that taking a pregnancy test soon after your missed period can give you a false result? Your body releases a hormone called Human gonadotropic hormone (hCG) and the concentration of this hormone inside your body increases with the time period!
So if you are in your initial stages of the missed period, you need to understand that the concentration of this hormone is very less and going for pregnancy confirmation test may give you a false negative.
How many days has it really been since you have missed your period? If it hasn’t been at least a week and you are being curious, it is time for you to calm down and wait for a week before you prepare yourself for the big test.
2) Why Should A Pregnancy Test Be Taken Only In The Morning?
Obtaining an accurate result is the best rather than acting in haste and being stuck in a dilemma. A pregnancy test took late in the afternoon or the evening may not bring an accurate result, and here is how this works.
The concentration of the hormone which determines your pregnancy (human gonadotropin) is very high during the morning when compared to the rest of the day. If you have not urinated in the middle of the night, opting for a pregnancy test early in the morning will give you an accurate result.
3) Which Pregnancy Kit Is More Expensive And Which One Should You Buy?
With everything becoming digitalized, you can also buy digital pregnancy testers which simply shows the result as “pregnant” or “not pregnant” on the small display screen. But, these testers are a little expensive and may cost you around 25 dollars.
The testers cannot be reused, which is why it is better to buy a normal pregnancy kit which costs low and which also contains two testers so that you can perform the test twice in a row.
4) Know What You Have To Do Before You Rush Into The Washroom
It is always better to have a plan and a stepwise procedure that you are going to perform before you directly plunge into the action. Since you are looking for an accurate result for a big life-changing aspect, it is better to have a correct idea about the procedure and prepare yourself to perform the test. Read the instructions carefully and get a clear idea about the complete procedure. Keep all the tools handy and make sure they are in your immediate reach.
1) Collect your urine sample in a plastic cup or a plastic bottle
2) Make use of the dropper that is present in your pregnancy kit to collect some of the urine samples
3) Release exactly 3 drops of urine from the dropper into the circular test well which is provided in your pregnancy kit
How To Get To A Conclusion?
Wait for five minutes to see the emergence of pink colored double lines on the white strips that are present on the stick. The result depends on the number of pink double lines that have appeared. If the stick shows two double lines, the test is said to be positive and if the stick shows just one double line, the test is said to be negative.
5) Is There A Chance Of Getting A False Positive Test?
A false positive test is a test that shows you are pregnant even though you are not. A false positive result can never show up, and if you have performed two tests with a gap of several days but end up with a positive result in the first test and negative result in the second, the only chance is a miscarriage.
It is probably because you are really pregnant but the pregnancy led to a miscarriage. Nevertheless, the probability of a false positive test is zero.
6) Is There A Chance Of Getting A False Negative Test?
Can the pregnancy tester show that you are negative to pregnancy, though you are really pregnant? As we have discussed it earlier, this can most commonly happen when you do not wait for at least a week after your missed period.
The concentration of hCG should be high enough to get detected in your urine sample. Not following the instructions properly can also show a false negative.
Bottom Line
Now that, you are good to go for a pregnancy confirmation test, be sure to follow the instructions and get excited to hear the good news.