The world of pregnancy tests has advanced beyond all recognition in the twenty odd years since I had my first positive test. Way back then in 1991, home pregnancy tests were a novelty, expensive and a faff, rather than using those mini chemistry sets, most women (myself included) would go to doctor to get a suspected pregnancy confirmed. In those good, old days, you would wait until you had missed a period, then pee in a pot and the doctor would send it off to a laboratory, where some magic would be performed, with the results being available a week later. Today it would be very unlikely that a doctor would even confirm a pregnancy as home pregnancy tests are now as ...  Read the complete review

Early Home Pregnancy Tests - Do they Work? And HOW do they work? Well, we have to go into a bit of biology here. You see, when you are pregnant, your body releases a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) these levels rise dramatically once conception has taken place (the embryo emplants into the uterus) this is why pregnancy can be detected in the blood a few days before a period is due. USUALLY pregnancy can only be detected around the time of your period is due because of the hormone level that is needed to trigger a positive result in these home pregnancy tests. This is because standard pregnancy tests measure for results between ...  Read the complete review

Early home pregnancy tests..sounds foreign doesn't it?! But true enough these you can actually buy these in many shops.I brought one recently -well my husband brought it for me from my local chemist.I was kindof baffled by the concept of a pregnancy test that can tell you if you are pregnant upto 4/5 days before your period is due. It works in just the same way that all the other pregnancy tests do...by picking up the increased hormone levels in the morning but whereas most of them can only pick up the hormone level increase after your period is due the tip on this is ultra sensitive and can pick up the early traces of pregnancy hormones. So that's how it ...  Read the complete review