How You Can Determine The Start Of Your Pregnancy

Pregnancy use to occur soon after the sperm of a man might have fertilized the egg released by a woman। Medically, this is called fertilization and conception to a lay-man’s understanding।


The man’s sperm cannot just fertilize your egg as the woman without having sexual intercourse with you, though the coming of insemination of sperm artificially to the woman’s womb while ovulating to become pregnant has made it easier if there is any existing medical condition in either of the couples or if you as a woman decided to be pregnant without a man partner।

In addition, pregnancy starts at implantation of spermatozoon to the egg and it is often convenient to start counting it from the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP) and it will be of a good help to you while calculating your expected delivery date (EDD)।

You can detect the beginning of your pregnancy in various ways through the use of various pregnancy tests that detect hormones which is generated by the placenta that is formed newly। Urine test can also be used to detect if pregnancy has occurred soon after implantation or fertilization and this can be done as early as 5-8 days after fertilization.

Always have in mind that neither home nor clinical tests can detect the age of the pregnancy। The only thing they detect is the state of the pregnancy. As woman, do not depend on home test if you really want to know the age of your pregnancy.

To actually determine or know if pregnancy has occurred, you need to stick and be certain about your menstrual date based on the first day of your last menstrual period for it is the most common educated way to estimate the real age of your pregnancy.