The Pregnancy Blood Test -
The Early Pregnancy Test That Does More Than Just Confirming Your Pregnancy!

The pregnancy blood test is great in helping you confirm your pregnancy early, as much as two weeks earlier than a over-the-counter home urine test!

The lowest amount of hCG detectable in the most sensitive of home urine tests is between 20 to 25 mlU/mL. In comparison, the pregnancy blood test can measure levels of hCG as low as 5mlU/mL. It can therefore detect pregnancy as early as one week after conception when the amount of hCG in your body is still pretty low.

This blood test can also help date your pregnancy by measuring the exact amount of hCG present in your blood as your pregnancy progresses.

You can contact a clinic to have your blood taken and analyzed in a laboratory by a medical professional. The health professional will only take about 5 to 10 minutes to draw your blood, and the results will be made confidentially available to you within 1 to 2 days. The pregnancy test is therefore most suitable to women who need to determine that they're pregnant as soon as possible.

The Benefits of The Pregnancy Blood Test:

• This early pregnancy test is very useful for identifying pregnancy complications. This early pregnancy test is very useful for identifying pregnancy complications. While pregnancy complications can also be detected by an ultrasound scan, the ultrasound scan is good only for gestation of at least 5 weeks old, when you'll have at least 1,500 mIU/mL hCG in your blood. Any gestation period earlier than 5 weeks will render an ultrasound scan quite useless.

• This test can detect an early miscarriage if the amount of hCG is falling or isn't rising as quickly as it should.

• It can identify an ectopic, or tubal pregnancy and sometimes a multiple pregnancy.

• This blood test can also pick up any abnormality found in your blood stream such as anaemia, rhesus factor and the presence of unusual antibodies.

• Last but not least, it can also be used to assess any problem with the growth of the baby.

More resources on pregnancy tests:

Using pregnancy test kits correctly

False negatives and false positives

Ultrasound scan

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