Some women pray for the appearance of pregnancy symptoms. Other women, usually those who want to remain childless, do not want to see any sign of those same pregnancy symptoms. For both groups of women, the detection of pregnancy assumes great importance. For that reason, both groups of women would expect a probable sign of pregnancy to lead to a stroll down a pharmacy aisle and purchase of a home pregnancy kit. Yet the following article will show that such kits, while quite reliable, still have the same fallibility as the original lab test for pregnancy.  A woman must be conscious of that fact.

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