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If you have been the recipient of fertility treatment, you will have to wait at least 14 days before the clinic will carry out the test but if you are impatient, home pregnancy tests are fairly accurate and easily available. Although you should bear in mind that there’s a risk of a test showing a false positive result if it is done too early.

Naturally there are physical signs of being pregnant for example: feeling nauseous, using the bathroom more frequently, lack of menstrual cycle, mood changes, weariness and finer sense of aromas and taste.

Ordinarily the fertility clinic will want to stay in touch regularly with you to enable them to carry out checks to find out if your baby’s growth is safe. Occasionally clinics do not supply continuing assistance so alternate arrangements during pregnancy will have to be made.

It can take some time for some women to come to terms with the fact they’re going to have a child after successful fertility treatment so don’t worry if, initially, you are not as happy about as you believed you would be. There is nothing wrong with this, but the important thing is to accept your feelings whatever they are, and to remember that most mums-to-be go through a number of emotions on discovering they are going to have a baby whether they have had fertility treatment or not.

It may not seem that way but normally there is little physical difference from someone who has become pregnant naturally to someone who has received fertility treatment, although they may find it harder emotionally. Although, at times it might mean you need more scans or appointments at the pregnancy clinic. This could well be because they have had past problems like miscarriages, multiple birth, and stillbirths or, because of their overall health. Your age can also be a deciding factor because the older you are the greater your chance of complications will be.

Since assisted conception has been around over a million babies have been conceived and delivered employing treatments such as In Vitro Fertilization for example, and there is every chance that you will give birth to a healthy baby. However, all medical treatments have some risks and there is no way of ruling out the slight chance of a problem, regardless of how the infant was conceived, although most problems are relatively small. Some good advice is to try to relax during the pregnancy and enjoy the time as much as you can.

Unfortunately, the number of women who have a miscarriage after getting fertility treatment like IVF is just a little more than women who get pregnant by the natural method. Normally, this is the result of only two situations: the first being that many women that undergo fertility treatment have a pregnancy test quite early in the pregnancy. Then there is the case where a woman who has become pregnant by the natural method may think she has had a late period but has in fact created an embryo that failed to implant. The second reason is because women who have fertility treatment are traditionally older than women who do not, and the prospects of losing the baby grow as the woman gets older. To clear up any questions you may have, you would be advised to speak to a consultant from the fertility clinic.