Your Pregnancy

Pee positive

CONFIRMING PREGNANCY from urine dates back to Egyptian times, when women peed on crop seeds in the belief that if they grew, so would a baby. These days, we’re more familiar with the “peeing on a stick” home-pregnancy-test method, and similar tests carried out in clinics and doctors’ rooms.

Following sex, the fertilised egg (which was released from your uterus into one of your fallopian tubes during your

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