At-home pregnancy tests are pretty damn accurate, right? If you get a positive result you can almost certainly assume you are pregnant, at which point you should visit your GP to confirm the news, and then you can spend the next nine or so months preparing for your human child, alongside these celeb...
LumiNola//Getty ImagesCan a pregnancy test be wrong? In short: yes. And there are several reasons why, ranging from the test having gone past its expiry date (yep, they don't last forever!) to certain kinds of medication. There are sadder reasons for a pregnancy test to be inaccurate too, includin...
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Medichecks Pregnancy Progress Blood TestCredit: Medichecks3. Miscarriage"If you have had a recent miscarriage, the HCG level can stay in your bloodstream for several days. This can result in a false positive test result...
Viktoriya Dikareva//Getty Images6. Ectopic pregnancy"An ectopic pregnancy can result in a positive reading on a pregnancy test, and this does indeed mean you are pregnant. Sadly, though, this pregnancy is not in the right place...
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