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Could I Be Pregnant And When Can I Take A Home Test?
I am 13 weeks post-partum, breastfeeding and supplementing as well. My fiancé and I has intercourse three days ago and he came inside me. I have not had my period and the moment it happen I felt flutters like swimmers and now I m having cramping. Could I be pregnant and when can I take a home test?
Wed, 5 Oct 2016
Hallow Dear,
If you are exclusively breast feeding your baby day and night, you have very good contraceptive protection; however, occasional cases of pregnancy in lactational amenorrhoea are known.
However, the symptoms of pregnancy like feeling the movements of baby will not come so soon. Abdominal pains are not cardinal symptom of pregnancy.
For confirmation of status, you have following options:
1. Perform Beta hCG test on the blood 10 days after the incidence of unprotected sex. hCG Values above 25 mIU/ml are diagnostic of pregnancy; in nonpregnant sate, the values are under 5 mIU/ml.
2. Perform pregnancy test on overnight first morning urine 3 weeks after the unprotected intercourse.
Either of these tests will provide you reliable results though the former test is more reliable and sensitive.
I hope this helps you.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
If you are exclusively breast feeding your baby day and night, you have very good contraceptive protection; however, occasional cases of pregnancy in lactational amenorrhoea are known.
However, the symptoms of pregnancy like feeling the movements of baby will not come so soon. Abdominal pains are not cardinal symptom of pregnancy.
For confirmation of status, you have following options:
1. Perform Beta hCG test on the blood 10 days after the incidence of unprotected sex. hCG Values above 25 mIU/ml are diagnostic of pregnancy; in nonpregnant sate, the values are under 5 mIU/ml.
2. Perform pregnancy test on overnight first morning urine 3 weeks after the unprotected intercourse.
Either of these tests will provide you reliable results though the former test is more reliable and sensitive.
I hope this helps you.
Dr. Nishikant Shrotri
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