If your menstrual period is late, you may be pregnant. You can do a pregnancy test to see if you are pregnant. There are 2 kinds of pregnancy test:

Urine test

You can buy a pregnancy test in the supermarket, drugstore or pharmacy. This kind of pregnancy test is a urine test. For a correct result, do the test when your menstrual period is already some days late.

Do the test in the following way:

  • Put the test in some of your urine.
  • Put the test down horizontally. 
  • Wait about 5 minutes to see the result on the screen of the test.
  • If the test is positive, go to a doctor. He/she will confirm your pregnancy with a blood test.

Blood test

You can first do a urine test or you can immediately go to a doctor for a blood test. The doctor does a test to confirm the pregnancy. He/she takes some blood and sends it to a research lab.

You get the result the next day.

Symptoms of pregnancy

Some women will experience the first symptoms of pregnancy early in their pregnancy

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