Knowing your egg fertilised hours after it happened!!

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There is an advertisement for a popular early home pregnancy test that talks about how wonderrful it would be to know that you are pregnant hours after you conceived.  And to the many women struggling with infertility and desperate to have a baby, it certainly would be wonderful.

Pregnancy refers to the successful implantation of a fertilised egg. Implantation usually takes anywhere from 6-12 days after ovulation to occur. Once implantation of the embryo into the uterus occurs successfully then the body starts to produce the pregnancy hormone, HCG. This is the hormone that home pregnancy tests measure and some claim to have a sensistive that measures as low as 20 units of HCG.

But sometimes the egg might get fertilised by the sperm but not implant successfully. Is there any way to figure out if your egg was successfully fertilised? Apparently there is. There is a substance known as Early Pregnancy Factor, EPF, which the body produces once a success fertilisation has taken place. The fertilised egg does not produce it directly but stimulates the body to produce it. And it can be tested for.

So in fact, you CAN know if your egg was successfully fertilised anywhere as early as 6 hours after fertilisation has occurred! The range given is between 6-48 hours. Isnt that amazing? I am not sure how available this test is. But it has been around since 1976 so it cant possibly be so state of the art that only specialised labs have it. Or can it? But the point is that we can know if we have gotten one step closer to having our baby.

We can test for EPF and thus know if the sperm fertilised the egg. If we still do not get pregnant then we will know that it is definitely some kind of implantation issue. In another article I will talk about testing the uterine lining to determine receptivity levels for the embryo.

The things we find out on our journey to becoming a mommy!

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