The first day of flow of your menstrual cycle is the first day of your cycle. After you have established you have started your period, not to be confused with spotting (spotting can be random spots of blood to very light bleeding that might appear a little on a liner or just when a woman wipes. Spotting can come before your period arrives or it can be spotting from implantation bleeding).
Confirm Ovulation
Next you need to confirm ovulation. Once you have ovulated, you have your two week wait. For the average woman, she can receive a positive pregnancy test anywhere from 12-14+ days pass ovulation. For a few women, they can receive positive pregnancy tests as early as 8-11 days pass ovulation. And for other women, they don't receive positive pregnancy tests until 14+ days pass ovulation. How much HCG ( the pregnancy hormone) is different for every woman, that is why not every woman will get a positive pregnancy test at the same time.
Next you need to confirm ovulation. Once you have ovulated, you have your two week wait. For the average woman, she can receive a positive pregnancy test anywhere from 12-14+ days pass ovulation. For a few women, they can receive positive pregnancy tests as early as 8-11 days pass ovulation. And for other women, they don't receive positive pregnancy tests until 14+ days pass ovulation. How much HCG ( the pregnancy hormone) is different for every woman, that is why not every woman will get a positive pregnancy test at the same time.
Two Week Wait
If you wait the entire two weeks (1-14 days pass ovulation) before you start testing that puts you at testing around 15 days pass ovulation. By 14-15 days pass ovulation, if you're pregnant you should get a positive pregnancy test. I have heard of people who have been said to get a positive pregnancy test later, but I believe that is usually due to slow rising HCG or miscalculation of when they ovulated.
Best Time To Test
The best time to test is the day or days after your missed period.
How Many Days Pass Ovulation
If you wait the entire two weeks (1-14 days pass ovulation) before you start testing that puts you at testing around 15 days pass ovulation. By 14-15 days pass ovulation, if you're pregnant you should get a positive pregnancy test. I have heard of people who have been said to get a positive pregnancy test later, but I believe that is usually due to slow rising HCG or miscalculation of when they ovulated.
Best Time To Test
The best time to test is the day or days after your missed period.
How Many Days Pass Ovulation
However if you have no period, its late and you keep getting negative pregnancy tests, you may want to go to your GYN to determine if it is a viable or chemical pregnancy through a blood test or you need medication to start your cycle. I've also heard that there is no such thing as being 22 days or some high number like that pass ovulation. By that point you're either pregnant or you're not. One of my mommy friends from my group, who will call Margo * to protect her identity explained, The corpus luteum just
cannot survive that long and by now you would have gotten your period, had breakthrough
bleeding, or gotten a clear positive pregnancy test. It's more likely you ovulated later than you
thought you did.
Can Breastfeeding delay a positive pregnancy test or cause you to get false negatives?
When I became pregnant with my 2nd while breastfeeding my 1st, I got a positive pregnancy test at 12 days pass ovulation, which was a faint positive. I can't speak for everyone, but In my experience, whenever I got negative pregnancy tests that never turned positive, I was not pregnant. When I got a positive pregnancy test, I was really pregnant. I confirmed pregnancy at 12, 13, 17 and 21 days pass ovulation with home pregnancy tests and at 14 days pass ovulation I took a blood pregnancy test, which was positive. Breastfeeding, never delayed a positive pregnancy test or gave me false negatives so far.
Can't Stop Testing?!?
Now if you are anything like me, waiting a whole two weeks is just not something you can do. If that is you, I would be cautious about starting too early, but 12-14 days pass ovulation is a good place to start (if you can't hold out that long at least don't test from 1-9 days pass ovulation, wait at least until 10-11 days pass ovulation to start), that way you will have a better idea if your period is on its way and you don't waste too many pregnancy tests if you are similar to me where you test until a positive pregnancy test or menstrual cycle starting. Happy testing!
What was my earliest pregnancy test?!?
I'm one of those women who do not get early positive pregnancy tests. With pregnancy # 2, I tested 7-11 days pass ovulation and got negative pregnancy tests. Then 12-13 days pass ovulation faint positives on First Response Early Reponse (FRER) brand. With pregnancy # 3, negative at 9 days pass ovulation and faint positive on First Reponse Early Reponse (FRER) brand at 11 days pass ovulation.
What was my earliest pregnancy test?!?
I'm one of those women who do not get early positive pregnancy tests. With pregnancy # 2, I tested 7-11 days pass ovulation and got negative pregnancy tests. Then 12-13 days pass ovulation faint positives on First Response Early Reponse (FRER) brand. With pregnancy # 3, negative at 9 days pass ovulation and faint positive on First Reponse Early Reponse (FRER) brand at 11 days pass ovulation.
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