The earliest and most recognizable sign of pregnancy is missed periods. Woe to the women who do not keep a track of their periods or have an irregular menstrual cycle, for it will take a while for them to register their pregnancy. Nausea or morning sickness is another early sign of pregnancy. Increase in hunger or total loss of appetite follows the missed period and nausea pregnancy symptoms. These signs may vary and swing either way with each passing day, as the body prepares itself to welcome a new life. Every woman, rather every pregnancy, differs in pregnancy symptoms.
Pregnancy Symptoms
There is no standard checklist for determining pregnancy. Different women have different symptoms. It is very important to listen to what your body tells you and recognize any untoward signs. This way you can even recognize early signs of pregnancy much before any testing takes place. Some women experience pregnancy symptoms within weeks of conception, some may have no symptoms other than missed or delayed periods. Some of the most common pregnancy symptoms are listed below.
Nausea or morning sickness: Most well known early sign of pregnancy are experienced between 2-8 weeks after conception. This queasy feeling is due to the changes in the hormone levels the body experiences as it prepares for embryo implantation.
Delayed or missed periods: It is the classic early sign of pregnancy. The uterine lining need not be shed anymore so as to embed the embryo for growth.
Fatigue or tiredness: This pregnancy symptom starts as early as first week after conception.
Swollen or tender breasts: Within a week or two of conception, some women may notice changes in their breasts; they may be tender to touch, sore or swollen due to hormonal imbalance.
Darkening of areolas: The skin around the nipples darkens as the pregnancy advances in weeks, to prepare for the baby.
Backaches: Lower backache is also an early sign of pregnancy, though a dull backache remains throughout the pregnancy due to the increasing weight of the fetus.
Headache: Some women experience headaches early in the pregnancy due to sudden rise of hormones.
Frequent urination: Around 5-8 weeks as the growing uterus presses against the urinary bladder, one needs to make frequent trips to bathroom to evacuate urine.
Food cravings: This is a very classic early sign of pregnancy and lasts throughout the entire pregnancy. Some women crave for sweets and ice creams, while other may want salty food or pickles. According to pregnancy journal, this is one way of the body to take in the missing nutrients or augment poor diet due to nausea.
Implantation bleeding: About 6-12 days after conception the embryo implants itself into the uterine wall. Some blood spotting or cramping may take place at this moment of time. This is also an early sign of pregnancy to be watched out for.
Apurva Shree
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/early-sign-of-pregnancy-tracking-the-symptoms-74406.html
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Early pregnancy symptoms or my mind playing tricks? And if so. . .?
Intercourse with no birth control (whoops) on the 16th and 18th of May. I’m not tracking my ovulation because I’m not trying to get pregnant, but based on the length of my cycle, I guess the average ovulation would be on the 19th. Yes, I know it has only been like 9 days… but that would be 8 days past ovulation…
The last day and half my nipples have been really sensitive…for me. Because they usually aren’t at all and now if I brush something I can tell and sometimes it is a little too tender if that makes sense.
There are also little things popping up which I assume based on what I have read could be mammory glands. I noticed them before I read anything about them. . .
I have been having some not very bad cramping. My period is not due for another 8 days.
I’ve had a headache that’s been coming and going.
But, I do feel like all of these things could be caused by other things. And I know it’s WAY too early to take pregnancy test. And I know that that’s really the only answer to my concern, but are these things that would be happening this early? It’s all just been the past two days or so that these things have started… so if from conception to implantation it’s 5 to 12 days, it could have implanted as early as three or four days ago… or really soon. I haven’t seen any implantation bleeding, but that only happens in like 30% of cases, right? Or is it that only like 30% of women notice…? Has anyone here ever been pregnant, looking out for the IB and not seen it?
Has anyone had symptoms that started that early?
Is there anything I should be looking out for to either suspect pregnancy or not?
When do you think taking a pregnancy test would yield accurate results?
And what is the best test to take?
Also, if I am. . . the man involved is one of my very best friends…who broke up with his girlfriend and we started a friends with benefits thing. . . but he has now started dating her again. And she is a friend of mine too (I know, I feel horrid. She doesn’t know and we don’t want her to). But. . . I don’t know if I could have an abortion. . . I’m pro choice but I just don’t know if I could. How on earth could I tell him that I was pregnant? And would it be dumb to give him a total pass and offer to let him sign away parental rights and offer to lie to everyone else and say I don’t know who the dad is? It could only be him, but I don’t want to screw his life over (he already has a child and oh yeah - is in a relationship…).
wait a week or two before taking a preg test. if neg go see a doctor for a blood test just in case
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No do not lie. God does everything for a reason. If you are pregnant it is a blessing and apparently he does not really care for her or he would not want a one hitter quitter with you.
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An unorthodox suggestion . . . .
Provoke a period when you are due, it can even work if you are a bit late. You can do this by using Vitamin C.
Take 12 grams of ascorbic acid - Vitamin C a day until bleeding commences. Specifically use ascorbic acid. Do not use vitamin C with bioflaviniods or has Rose-hips in it. Look for the cheap generic brands, they are usually the ones that have pure ascorbic acid. Doses consisting of 1,000mg every two hours are most common.
The vitamin C -ascorbic acid- works to produce an unfavorable climate within the uterus so that the egg does not implant, or cannot maintain its grip on the uterine wall by stimulating estrogen, and possibly interfering with progesterone.
http://www.sisterzeus.com/Hsp1shlp.htm, vit_c_ab.html and Vit_C.htm
If you have any questions about it, email me. I have used these methods successfully before. I take 1,000mg every two hours until bleeding commences. You should be waking up every 4 hours and taking your missed doses at night, this ensures that you have a constant level of ascorbic acid in your blood stream. 12grams a day - 1,000mg/1gr every two hours.
~Pro-Choice Momma; Have had an abortion <no regrets> and I have a 17 month old daughter <no regrets>. I believe in protecting my daughter’s choice.
Abortion: There is a Consensus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSQiazUvgo
EDIT - Anna
Some women do know before a missed period that they are pregnant.
I have always known I was before I missed a period, the pregnancy tests were always for the doctors benefit, not mine or my husband’s - we always knew.
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Its way too early too show pregnancy symptoms.
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13 weeks pregnant w/ #2