Positive Pregnancy Test: Everything You Need to Know
Introduction
A positive pregnancy test is a discovery that turns the life of any couple upside down. It doesn't matter whether the arrival of a baby is wanted or not: in front of those two little lines, everything changes.
Various questions begin to chase each other in your mind and it is natural, for example, to ask yourself what to do after the discovery .
In this article, I will try to provide you with the best answers to this and other valuable questions.
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What is a pregnancy test?
Let's start with the basics and answer the question "What is a pregnancy test?" .
This is a test aimed at detecting the presence of the hormone Beta HCG , a fraction of human chorionic gonadotropin, in the woman's urine or blood.
Its synthesis by the woman's body begins when the fertilized egg implants in the endometrium, the tissue that lines the walls of the uterus.
All this happens, give or take a day, about a week after conception.
The hormone Beta HCG plays a fundamental role.
In fact, it allows the pregnancy to continue in a period of gestation in which the placenta has not yet formed, creating an environment that is suitable, especially from a hormonal point of view, for the development of the embryo.