How to confirm the pregnancy and its length?

A simple urine pregnancy test from a shop or a pharmacy is enough to confirm a pregnancy. Most tests give an accurate result on the first day of a missed menstrual period.

A pregnancy can also be confirmed by a blood test for the pregnancy hormone (hCG or beta hCG) or an ultrasound scan. It is not necessary to have an ultrasound before abortion with pills.

The easiest and most common method to measure the length of a pregnancy is to count the days from the first day of the last menstrual period you had. You can calculate the pregnancy length using the pregnancy calculator on this page.

An ultrasound can accurately measure the length of a pregnancy if it is difficult to estimate the pregnancy length. ^{34, 35}