When to start taking pregnancy test
WHEN TO TAKE A PREGNANCY TEST / Best Time to Take a Pregnancy Test
if you are on your TTC or trying to
conceive journey and you're in the midst
of your two-week wait or tww you might
be approaching the time when you would
want to take a pregnancy test but the
question is when should you take a
pregnancy test if you want to learn more
and then just keep watching hey there
welcome back to my channel that mama
goes today I'm talking all about when to
take a pregnancy test and hopefully by
the end of this video you will not only
understand the general recommendation of
when to take a pregnancy test but will
also understand why that is the
recommendation if you're new here my
name is Brittany I'm a registered nurse
I worked in a holistic women's health
practice and that's where I learned my
passion for women's health and for
teaching about and learning about a
woman's cycle that's ultimately what led
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okay okay first and foremost let's talk
generally about urine pregnancy tests or
you pts there are two types of pregnancy
tests one is a blood test which we're
not talking about today today we're
talking about urine pregnancy test so
these tests you can actually take it
home so they're the kind you can buy at
the drugstore at the grocery store or
online like on Amazon or whatever and
then you can also have this done at your
doctor's office or in the emergency room
if you happen there and they do urine
tests there as well there are a couple
of different types of you pts or your
own pregnancy tests some you have to pee
into a cup
and then dip the stick in or you you
have a little syringe and you have to
draw it up and place it on this spot on
the plate this is definitely not a video
on how to take a pregnancy test because
a lot of them are so different and then
of course there's the midstream catch
versions of the pregnancy test where
it's literally just you're going to the
bathroom and you put it under your urine
stream for however long the test tells
you to in the instructions but
regardless of what test you're taking
they're all measuring for the same thing
they're looking at HCG so they're seeing
if HCG is present and this starts being
rapidly produced right after
implantation occurs I have a couple of
videos out specifically about
implantation so I talked about
implantation bleeding implantation
spotting implantation cramping and then
just symptoms of implantation so make
sure to hop over to those and take a
look because those are jam-packed full
of information that's so good to know if
you're on your TTC journey let's get
down to the real question here when to
take a pregnancy test this is a quote
from health line calm
it says you should wait to take a
pregnancy test until the week after your
missed period for the most accurate
result if you don't want to wait until
you've missed your period you should
wait at least one to two weeks after you
have had sex if you are pregnant your
body needs time to develop detectable
levels of HCG this typically takes seven
to twelve days after successful
implantation of an egg so again that's
from health line calm that link will be
in the description box below basically
the general recommendation is you should
wait until after you've missed your
period which is what this says at the
beginning and there's a few reasons for
this you want to number one is avoid a
false negative so you you know if you're
on your TTC journey and you've been
doing this for a while you may be test
really early and then you get a negative
but you know that you're not due to
start your period for a while so that
could technically be a false negative
because HCG isn't high enough in your
system for the test to detect it so
something that's key that I want to
point out is that not all tests are
created equal and I'm talking about you
PT's some tests can detect lower levels
of HCG and then other tests meaning that
they're a little bit more sensitive and
than other tests which means you could
get a positive earlier on than these
other tests a higher the sensitivity of
the test the earlier you could
potentially get your positive if you did
implant so timing of testing is not only
impacted by whatever level you're at
that day but it also depends on the
sensitivity of the test that you're
using another note and this is also from
health line comm is that women actually
already have a baseline level of HCG
meaning you even if you're not pregnant
you still have a very small level of HCG
now it's really small compared to like
when you're pregnant and as you progress
but it's still there helping calm says
normal HCG levels in non pregnant women
are less than ten if for you your
baseline is seven I don't know I'm just
throwing it out there but someone else's
baseline is two or three it's going to
take that person
time to develop enough HCG to be
detected by the same exact test as this
person if that makes sense basically you
have less starting out so it takes you a
little longer to get to that threshold
or that level that it's looking for I'm
going to be doing an entire video on
comparing pregnancy tests and talking
about sensitivity and things like that
so the different types of tests sumit
drugstore some on amazon so again hit
that subscribe button if you don't want
to miss that video coming up because
I'll definitely tie into some of this
information question for you guys if you
are on your TTC journey or if you are
considering testing here soon what kind
of a tester are you do you wait until
after your missed period do you wait
until the day your periods due or do you
test early let me know in the comments
you can be as detailed as you'd like I'd
love to hear what your approaches and
and what's worked for you maybe in the
past please share your thoughts and
experiences with us so a few tips on how
to know when to take a pregnancy test my
first tip is to know when you ovulate it
now I've done videos on ovulation and
how to tell when you're ovulating that
is key information not only just for
pregnancy and trying to determine if
you're pregnant it's also key just for
your general health I think every woman
can benefit from knowing her cycle
knowing how her body works and when she
can expect her period in general and
just finding out your own pattern so go
back and take a look at that video and
start getting to know your body but the
reason why this is important in relation
to when to take a pregnancy test and how
to tell if you're pregnant and all of
that good stuff is that if you know when
you ovulated then you can generally
assume that if you are pregnant if it's
going to implant that this would take
place about six to twelve days generally
after this occurs after ovulation the
estimated length of time
implantation in relation to ovulation is
different depending on who you talk to
but generally speaking six to twelve
days after ovulation is when you can
expect that to occur if it's going to
occur meaning if you know when you
ovulate it you can generally assume six
to twelve days later you might implant
which means you can pay attention for
those signs and you can look back and
say hey the timing of this is right
because I know when I ovulate it my next
tip which goes right along with knowing
when you ovulate is knowing when you
implant it now there's no first sure way
to know exactly when you implanted at
least from home but sometimes our bodies
can give us clues and as mentioned
earlier I've done videos on implantation
bleeding implantation spotting
implantation cramping which can all
occur around the time you implant those
can be really really great signs for
that it's just important to know your
body if you know you're normal and what
you typically experience within your
cycle maybe you know like if you are in
the week before your period is going to
start typically you experience these
symptoms I'm bloated I'm nauseous
whatever it is and if if you experience
something a little bit different than
that then that could potentially be a
sign of pregnancy I talk about that a
lot in my early signs of pregnancy
videos I have two of those one is my
personal early science and the other is
just talking about 20 different early
signs you could experience so check
those out as well but let's say you know
when you ovulate it since we talked
about earlier and then you start seeing
like implantation signs such as maybe
you have implantation cramping that your
cramping and you don't normally have
cramping at that time or something like
that if you start to notice those
implantation signs the earliest a
pregnancy test
would be effective is about three to
four days after that so basically if you
know this information then you can kind
of like backtrack and say
here's how many days it's been since I
implanted which means I could
potentially get a positive result today
again depends on the sensitivity of the
test some tests are more sensitive than
others but it's generally speaking
knowing those dates is going to help you
in determining if it's possible to get a
positive on that day ultimately though
what this comes down to is mother nature
is going to take its course
regardless of if you take a pregnancy
test or not so my advice to you is that
you don't let too little lines on a
stick
determine how the rest of your day or
week or month is going to go my hope is
that that's not a discouraging statement
but that's more of an encouragement
saying you know what even if I don't
take this test whatever is going to
happen is going to happen so for the
sake of avoiding a possible false
negative and really for your sanity most
professionals recommend waiting until
after you've missed your period I hope
for you that you get your BFP if that is
the journey you are on comment below
your thoughts and if you learned
anything I would love to hear from you I
absolutely love seeing you guys interact
with each other too so make sure to
support each other and the threads down
below my goal for this is to build a
community of women that are going
through similar things I would also love
to know what brands of tests you use if
there's one that you feel like you love
or if there's something you just dislike
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