Are pregnancy tests accurate? It’s a great question that we had this week on our Facebook page, unfortunately, there is not a hard and fast answer. We know from research that on average women take 3 pregnancy tests when determining if they are pregnant and some women will continue to test even after a blood …
hcg level
If you haven’t been pregnant or tried to get pregnant or were pregnant in the “good old days” then you probably haven’t heard of HCG. HCG is human chorionic gonadotrophin it starts being produced by the placenta after the fertilised egg implants in the womb. (source https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/hcg-test) Hence why in pregnancy it is what doctors …