What is a chemical pregnancy, and how do you know if you've had one?

[hcopp]

Title says it all, really! Help, I'm so confused by all this! Thanks. HC.

It’s when you conceive but it doesn’t implant properly, and you may get an early BFP followed by a BFN and AF. You might only know if you do an early test

I only realised recently that technically a 'chemical pregnancy' is the loss of a pregnancy before 5 weeks gestation, when it officially becomes a clinical pregnancy. They often happen before someone knows they are pregnant.

A very early miscarriage often before it's too early to tell you were pregnant. I've been pregnant 4 times and have 4 children, but about 2 months before I conceived my second child, I was 6 days late and got an extremely faint line on a test, the next day I came on period but vomiting and had chills. I think this may have been a pregnancy loss, but I will never know and I don't often think about it.

I think a chemical is loss of a pregnancy before its possible to detect the pregnancy on an ultrasound, so around 5 weeks.

You'd know about it if you got a positive pregnancy test but then your period came. It happened to me, I had a faint line on a test and felt pregnant but then my period came bang on time.

I got a feint positive pregnancy test before my period was due then my period came a few days later. That’s a chemical pregnancy