Pregnancy test
If your menstrual period is late, you may be pregnant. You can do a pregnancy test to see if you are pregnant. You can buy a pregnancy test at the supermarket, chemist or pharmacy. This is a urine test.
Urine test
Do the test in the following way:
- Put the test in some of your urine.
- Put the test down horizontally.
- Wait about 5 minutes for the result. It will appear on the screen of the test.
- If the test is positive, contact a midwife in the area where you live.
Urine test
Woman sitting on the toilet and holding an arm between her legs. The focus is on the arm between her legs.
You can urinate directly on the tip of the pregnancy test.
Or you can hold the tip of the pregnancy test in a clean container with some of your urine.
Put the test down horizontally.
Wait about 5 minutes for the result. It will appear on the screen of the test. You are pregnant only if a mark appears in both of the windows of the test.
Symptoms of pregnancy
Some women have the first symptoms of pregnancy early in the pregnancy.
Price of a pregnancy test
A pregnancy test that you can buy yourself (urine test) costs between € 5 and € 15. There are various brands of tests.
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