Some docs are saying that increasingly sensitive pregnancy tests may cause undue stress. “. . . because most miscarriages occur in the first four weeks after conception, more women are clued in to the fact that they miscarried (often, an early miscarriage is mis-identified as a normal period). One doctor says this is problematic, noting ‘they are put through unnecessary grief, feeling they have miscarried. If they hadn’t tested they would be none the wiser about a natural process.'”
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