I have read on the recent 20 minute Mother blog the story of a mother who has had a big disappointment with the pregnancy tests. Nothing less than five has been done to try to find out if I was pregnant or not. Three have given negative, one a clear positive and one a doubtful positive.
It is possible that something similar happened to you. Each body is a world, in some women the pregnancy hormone is detected immediately while in others it is not.
We have spoken in Babies and more that it is not good to abuse the pregnancy test. Having a test when you are pregnant for a few weeks can give you a false negative because the levels of human chorionic gonadotropin hormone are not yet detected in the urine.
Although the test ensures reliable results from the first day of delay there are many women who are irregular in their period and may have become pregnant later than they think. Therefore, if the result is negative and the delay continues, it is recommended to repeat the test after two or three days.
Pregnancy hormone is detected 15 days after fertilization has occurred and in some women maybe more, so, for greater reliability it is advisable to do so from the third or fourth day of delay.
It is said that the tests they give false negatives but never false positives. That is to say that if the two lines come out you are pregnant, but beware, it has happened to me that the test was positive and when I went to the doctor there was no embryo.
It is not very pleasant to hear but 3 out of 10 pregnancies do not reach term, you should know that in some cases the pregnancy hormone can be detected in the body but the fetus is lost in the first phase of conception.
I had the test done very early and I had the illusion that I was pregnant when it was not like that and after a few days I suffered a miscarriage. Therefore, to avoid the anguish that happens with this uncertainty, it is preferable to wait a couple more days and repeat it before taking a disappointment.
What has happened to the mother who tells her experience in the blog is not very frequent, fortunately. He spent almost the entire first trimester without being able to confirm the pregnancy, but of course, it is added that the embryo was not clearly visible on ultrasound, perhaps because he was less pregnant than he believed.
Today, pregnancy tests are 99% reliable, that is, there are 1% of exceptional cases that can fail. The important thing is to make good use of the test, without abusing and performing it at the right time.
