Signs and symptoms of early pregnancy

Signs and symptoms of early pregnancy: Things you may experience before you start prenatal care
By Mayo Clinic Staff

Are you pregnant? Real evidence can be seen on a pregnancy test. But you can expect - or hope - that you are pregnant, even before you menstruate late, if you experience one or more signs and symptoms of pregnancy. Here are the signs that can be seen in the first weeks after you become pregnant.

Breast pain, swelling
One of the physical changes experienced during pregnancy is the change in the breast. Your breasts will feel heavy, sore or tender to the touch. Or it can also feel more full and more severe. In the first two weeks after the pregnancy begins, your breasts start growing and changing as

preparation for producing milk. The main cause of this change is the increased production of hormones estrogen and progesterone. Changes in your breasts will be seen more clearly if you are pregnant for the first time.

Fatigue
Many women feel exhausted during pregnancy, especially in the early days. This may be a natural way to persuade expectant mothers to take more time to sleep, in preparation for the nights where he could not sleep in the future. But there are also physical reasons for this fatigue.

At first weeks of pregnancy, your body works very hard - pumping hormones and producing more blood to carry nutrients to your fetus. To accommodate this increased blood flow, your heart pumps harder and faster. Plus, the hormone progesterone which is a natural depressant for the central nervous system, so this hormone in large numbers causing you to feel sleepy. In addition, the possibility of pregnancy can cause feelings of worry that can absorb your energy and cause insomnia.

Spots of blood or abdominal pain
There are experienced plaque or a little bleeding during early pregnancy, around 10 or 14 days after conception. Known as bleeding due to implantation, which occurs when a fertilized egg cell that has put itself on the uterine wall. Such bleeding usually occurs earlier, fewer and lighter color than the usual blood came out at the time of menstruation, and the only briefly.

There is also experiencing abdominal pain or cramping in early pregnancy when the uterus began to enlarge. The pain is exactly like the pain during menstruation.

Nausea, with or without vomiting
Nausea in the morning is a classic sign of early pregnancy. Most of the nausea began to be felt around the fourth until the eighth week of pregnancy, but the vomiting may begin on the first two weeks after the pregnancy.

Although nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, commonly known by the name morning sickness - vomiting in the early days, but in fact could happen anytime. Apparently this occurs because the drastic increase in estrogen levels produced by the placenta and fetus. This hormone causes slower emptying of the intestine, which might cause this problem. Pregnant women are also known to be more sensitive to smell, so various odors - such as the smell of cooking, coffee, perfume or cigarette smoke - can trigger nausea.

Do not like or want to eat a certain food
Turning your nose from a particular food is usually the first signs that you are pregnant. Even the smell of certain foods can cause nausea in early pregnancy. One study says that pregnant women usually do not like the smell of coffee in the early weeks of pregnancy. Meat, milk and products containing the food is spiced sharp objects that are usually most unpopular at the time of pregnancy.

Frequent urination
Many pregnant women who feel that they become more frequent trips to the bathroom than usual. In the first trimester of pregnancy, this was due to the enlarged uterus pressing toward your bladder.

Headache
If you are pregnant, you may interfere with your frequent mild headaches. In early pregnancy, headaches may be caused by increased blood circulation caused by hormonal changes.

Constipation
Constipation or difficult bowel movements is one early indicator of pregnancy. Increasing the amount of progesterone hormone cause slow the digestive process, so that food can slowly get into the digestive tract, which can cause constipation.

Mood changes
You are not the kind of women who are sensitive - so why could cry to see Hallmark ad? The overwhelming amount of hormones in your body in early pregnancy can make you incredibly emotional and mushy. Changes in mood, from happy to sad, too common, especially in the first trimester.

Feeling dizzy and floating
Feeling dizzy And flying is common in pregnant women. This sensation is usually the result of changes in the circulation when blood vessels in your body increases and your blood pressure decreases. In early pregnancy, dizziness can also be caused by low blood sugar.

Basal body temperature increases
Your basal body temperature is the temperature that is taken orally when you first wake up in the morning. This temperature will be slightly increased after ovulation and stay at that level until you get the next menstruation. If you frequently record your basal body temperature to determine when you ovulate, you will see that the increase for more than two weeks then you are experiencing pregnancies. In fact, basal body temperature will remain high during your pregnancy.

Alternative for emerging signs of pregnancy

However, it is wonderful when you see one of the signs that existed at the list above, immediately do a pregnancy test at home, especially if you do not record your menstrual cycle or if your cycles are always shifting away from one month to the next. Also do not forget to keep yourself well. Who knew you actually are incorporated in two.