Can You Use 2 AM, 3 AM or 4 AM Urine For Pregnancy Test

Pregnancy tests using home test strips are used to test for pregnancy using first morning urine. How early is this? If you are wondering if you can use 2 AM urine, 3 AM urine, 4 AM urine or even 5 AM urine follow me and let's take a ride.

Pregnant woman 

When To Do Pregnancy Test Using Home Kit

All pregnancy tests detect the hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), which starts to be produced around 6 days after fertilization. The placenta produces this hormone, and during the first 8 to 10 weeks of your pregnancy, hCG levels rise rapidly, nearly doubling about every 2 days in early pregnancy. By the tenth day from ovulation (approximately the first day of your missed period), there should typically be enough hCG in your urine for an at-home pregnancy test to detect it.

Pregnancy tests are most reliable from the first day of your missed period. If you don't know when your next period is due, do the test at least 21 days after you last had unprotected sex.

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The result may not be reliable if you:

• do not follow the instructions properly
• take the test too early

Time To Do Pregnancy Test Using Home Kit

You can do a pregnancy test on a sample of urine collected at any time of the day. It doesn't have to be in the morning. Wait at least three hours since your last urination before taking the test. Don't drink too much water before taking the test, as this can dilute your urine and make it harder to get an accurate result.

Since you would not have drunk water or pee at night, the level of hCG will be higher in the urine and it will be easy to detect if you would be pregnant.

For women who work the night shift, your first morning urine will be the urine you void after you sleep during the day.

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If you're still very early in your pregnancy and hCG levels are only starting to rise, it may be wise not to test at night. This is because night or very early morning urine by 2 AM may be diluted due to the water intake the previous day before sleeping.

So for early pregnancy, the test by 2 AM may not be as accurate as the test result by 3 AM or 4 AM or even 5 AM. So the more the time goes, the more the concentration of HCG until the next fluid intake. So you can even use 11 AM urine provided you have not drank water since morning. But as the pregnancy gets along, anytime is fine. As for women that drink water at night, the result may also be affected.