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There are a few tests to confirm your pregnancy.

1. Urine Test

2.Pelvic Examination

3. Blood Test

A.Urine test

This is conducted via a pregancy testing kit available in drug stores,should you miss your period.Give it a week or two before you try his home kit.The pregnancy kit detects pregnancy hormone in the urine. 

The 1st urine specimen of the day is preferred as it has more concentration of pregnancy hormone. 

B. Pelvix examination.

If the urine test is positive or if you have any symptoms of pregnancy even if the urine test is negative, you must consult a gynecologist. The doctor does the pelvic exam usually after six week from the last menstrual period, to confirm pregnancy. The physician inserts two fingers into the vagina alongside the cervix while the other hand presses the lower abdomen and directs the pelvic organs towards the examining fingers. The more relaxed your abdominal and vaginal muscles, the more comfortable and thorough will be the exam. The main purpose of pelvic exam in early pregnancy is to evaluate the size of the uterus, tubes and ovaries. The doctor determines how many weeks you have been pregnant by evaluating uterine enlargements, initially detectable about 4 weeks after conception. Besides uterine enlargement he also looks for two other findings indicative of pregnancy, uterine softening and a slight bluish colourisation of the cervix. 

C.Blood Pregnancy test
Blood pregnancy test are the costliest as well as the most sensitive and reliable of pregnancy tests. The basic type is called the radioimmunoassay (RIA) or beta subunit HCG. This test is often reserved for pregnancy complications such as a suspected tubal pregnancy, but it can also be used to determine if a woman is pregnant before the missed period. A blood sample is taken and the test result usually take about one hour. This test can also establish approximately how far your pregnancy has progressed in weeks.