A simple and easy home pregnancy test may be just what you're looking for. This is especially so when you may be experiencing all the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, but are you pregnant?
The anxiety to confirm a woman's pregnancy has always been there. This question has confounded the ancients too. Centuries ago, the ancient Greek and Egyptians tried to diagnose their women's pregnancy by using honey, beer, onions, rabbit ears, mice and rat!
Fortunately, for the modern woman like yourself, you can easily buy a clean and hassle free home pregnancy test kit to test yourself in the privacy and comfort of your own home.
All you need is to urinate onto the test strips provided in the kit. Yes, your urine is all that is needed to tell whether you're pregnant!
In fact, even the ancient Egyptians knew this secret. They devised a primitive form of early pregnancy test involving getting a woman to urinate onto a pile of wheat and barley. They would wait for a few days for the grains to sprout. If the barley sprouted, they concluded that she'd conceived a boy. If the wheat sprouted instead, they said she'd conceived a girl. If nothing sprouts, that meant she wasn't pregnant! Simple.
And how accurate was that experiment you may ask?
It was later tested and proven by Scientists in the 1960s that it was good enough to accurately predict pregnancy 70% of the time! But it sulks at gender prediction though.
What's in a woman's urine that gives hint to her pregnancy? It's the unique hormone that's present in the urine of the expectant mother, known as the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin or hCG.
It is released by the fertilized egg while it is implanting itself in its mother's womb. This happens about 6 days after fertilization. HCG is first detectable in the mother's blood and later in her urine.
A home pregnancy test works by detecting traces of hCG in your blood or urine when you're pregnant.
If you can't wait to confirm the good news, go for an early pregnancy blood test instead of a urine test because hCG can be detected in your blood earlier. It can be detected as early as eight to ten days after you've conceived.
A urine pregnancy test on the other hand may not show up your early pregnancy because your body takes a few days longer to begin excreting hCG into your urine. Learn the important information about pregnancy tests done at home:
Using pregnancy test kits correctly
False negatives and false positives
