If periods have not resumed after childbirth, presumable due to nursing, will a pregnancy test be accurate?
Thanks for the info! To my relief, came out "not pregnant." Whew!
By the way, we were not using nursing as a contraceptive method, but all methods have failure rates. It is always possible, and since I don't have periods, there is no other way to tell.
Yes - it either detects the pregnancy hormone or it doesn't. If you're pregnant and far enough along for there to be a detectable level of hormone, it will pick it up. If you're not pregnant, there will be no pregnancy hormones in your urine.
Sure will! I got pregnant 3 different times while nursing, breastfeeding is not a guaranteed method of birth control.
If the hormone is there the stick will pick it up, breastfeeding or not.
If you are pregnant, the test will detect the hormones. Nursing won't affect that. The test will still be accurate.
While you can get a false negative if the test is taken too early in the pregancy (the hormones are too low to be detected), you can't get a false positive. If you get a positive result, you ARE pregnant.
Nursing can suppress ovulation. Nursing does not affect the hormones put out in your urine when there is a fertilized egg.
