pregnancy test

Your local C2U drop ins offer free testing or you can go to pharmacies or your doctors.

To find out if you are pregnant, a pregnancy test needs to be carried out. This is done with a kit that can test the presence of a hormone that is found in a woman's urine when a fertilised egg implants in the womb.

This test can be carried out on an early morning urine specimen, one week (seven days) after unprotected sexual intercourse. This specimen has to be the first specimen of the day following several hours of not passing urine. A urine test carried out at any other time - for example, two-three hours since last passing urine - will only give an accurate reading 14 days after unprotected sexual intercourse.