Pregnancy Test While Nursing?

Updated on May 20, 2013
S.R. asks from Cincinnati, OH
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If periods have not resumed after childbirth, presumable due to nursing, will a pregnancy test be accurate?

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So What Happened?

Thanks for the info! To my relief, came out "not pregnant." Whew!
By the way, we were not using nursing as a contraceptive method, but all methods have failure rates. It is always possible, and since I don't have periods, there is no other way to tell.

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J.B.

answers from Boston on

Yes - it either detects the pregnancy hormone or it doesn't. If you're pregnant and far enough along for there to be a detectable level of hormone, it will pick it up. If you're not pregnant, there will be no pregnancy hormones in your urine.

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K.A.

answers from San Diego on

Sure will! I got pregnant 3 different times while nursing, breastfeeding is not a guaranteed method of birth control.
If the hormone is there the stick will pick it up, breastfeeding or not.

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C.V.

answers from Columbia on

If you are pregnant, the test will detect the hormones. Nursing won't affect that. The test will still be accurate.

While you can get a false negative if the test is taken too early in the pregancy (the hormones are too low to be detected), you can't get a false positive. If you get a positive result, you ARE pregnant.

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M.P.

answers from Portland on

Nursing can suppress ovulation. Nursing does not affect the hormones put out in your urine when there is a fertilized egg.

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