If you are doing infertility treatments, chances are your doctor will have
you test your human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone levels about 12 days
after your procedure to determine if you are pregnant. hCG can be detected in
one’s urine or blood, but a home pregnancy test will not show you the amount of this hormone, only whether you have enough of it to be considered
pregnant. Knowing the actual level on a given date, however, is important if
you want to be sure that the pregnancy is going well in its early stages.