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Homemade Pregnancy Test


Finding out that you are pregnant or not, can assure your sleep at night so every woman will take the help of pregnancy testing when in doubt. If you are sick of the classical home urine test bought from the drug store or from the market then you can always try other ways. The ready-made test has the most assuring result when done by a professional at the doctor's office, so they are 100% reliable.

The homemade techniques are more discreet when dealing with teenage pregnancies. Another plus is the fact that they are extremely cheap to do. In the next paragraphs, we will show you some of these homemade tests and how they work.

How does a test know when I'm pregnant?

As well as the off the shelf test, the homemade ones simply detect the special hormones produced by the woman when the body changes to receive an embryo. These hormones are hCG and hCG derivatives that show up immediately after fecundation, just after the placenta begins to form. The highest level of hormones is found in blood, but it's easier for a person to detect it when it gets in the urine.

The "un-pregnant" level is somewhere bellow 1,2mlU and the "pregnant" level is, after 10 days from ovulation, approximately 25mlU and rises every day after that.

How to make your own testing kit?

A testing kit is simple to make. There are a moderate amount of techniques, from using bleach to killing a rabbit. Bellow you will find the instructions of the most widely used homemade pregnancy tests.

The Pine Sol Method

Pine sol is a result of steam distillation of cones, needles and twigs of some species of pine like "Pinus sylvestris". This essential oil is usually applied as a lubricant or a cleaning agent. In a container, mix pine sol and urine and see if a color modification occurs, if so, it means you may be pregnant.

Wheat and Barley

This ancient testing method has first been used in Egypt, where women urine over barley and wheat seeds. After some time, the seeds should grow if you are pregnant; the story says that if the wheat seeds grow, you will have a girl but if the others do so, you will have a boy. The growth was demonstrated in 1963 and highlighted 70% accuracy but when talking about gender, it's not true. It seems that the estrogen in the pregnant female's urine makes seeds grow a lot faster.

Bleach

This easy-to-do way is just to pee in a cup of bleach. If it becomes frothy or fizzes it's a chance that you are expecting a baby.

Rabbit Death

This is just a fact so don't kill animals! It is said that if you inject a female rabbit she will become instantly sexual active but the reverse is that it dies very fast so the single way to find out is to cut it and look at its ovaries. This is very cruel!

Dandelion Leaves

Another simple technique is to lay down some dandelion leaves, not under the sun, and considerably pee on them. Wait for some time and see if the leaves develop red blisters, this means you are pregnant.

The one thing you should really consider is the fact that these methods are not 100% sure, so they are on the same level or lower than the specific tests, so don't rely completely on homemade pregnancy tests. If you want to be 100% sure then consult a doctor.