Though most married women will like to experience and enjoy a new pregnancy, very few know about different symptoms which can be taken to be indicative of conception. The most common symptom to identify possible pregnancy is a missed period. But if you do not keep track of your menstrual cycle or if it varies widely from one month to the next, you may not be sure when to expect your period. In such situations other symptoms may become your indicators to pregnancy. The final evidence of your pregnancy will be provided only by a home pregnancy test. However you should note that home pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to detect most pregnancies until about a week after a missed period. So if you decide to take a test earlier than that and get a negative result, try again in a few days.
Before you take a home pregnancy test to confirm your new pregnancy you may also look for other common symptoms usually experienced by pregnant women. Hormonal changes in early pregnancy cause bloating in the body and your clothes may feel tighter than usual at the waistline. Similarly you may experience sensitive, sore breasts caused by increasing levels of hormones. The soreness may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. A related symptom is that if you are pregnant your basal body temperature increases and stays elevated for 18 days in a row.
Other symptoms of new pregnancy are fatigue, nausea or vomiting and frequent urination. If you are pregnant you feel tired and exhausted all of a sudden. The reasons for early pregnancy fatigue are not known for sure. However, some experts attribute it to rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone. Some women experience excessive urination if they are pregnant. During pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, which leads to extra fluid being processed by your kidneys and ending up in your bladder. Many women feel vomiting sensation early in pregnancy. It has also been observed that some women have a small amount of vaginal bleeding around 11 or 12 days after conception. If you are newly pregnant, its not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a sandwich or cup of coffee which you used to enjoy earlier.
All in all there are long lists of symptoms which may tell that you are pregnant. If so then take a home pregnancy test and if confirmed then prepare for a pleasant new pregnancy experience.
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Tubal ligation, BFN's, but all the signs of pregnancy are there. Last period 6-22-08
By: Dannielle | 17-10-2008
I keep getting a BFN on my hpt tests, but I haven't had a full period since June 22nd (I'm very regular). I did have some very light spotting (red blood) on Aug 3rd for a day and a half (I would have been 2 weeks late) but nothing AT ALL since then. I have had 3 prev. pregnancies, the last 2 I have had low prog. levels, requiring supplements to support the baby until the placenta took over at about 4 mo's. Also, I had a tubal ligation with my last child, 6 years ago. However, dh and I were VERY "active" in June and July. I just figured I wasn't having a period for some unknown reason, perhaps all the "activity" but from Aug on, our "activities" have been normal. Then, I started noticing flutters last Friday...and my pants are getting tighter and I swear I feel a bulge (sometimes hard, sometimes not as hard) protruding over my pelvic area. I have tender nipples (not tender to the touch, but if I squeeze them or bump against something, they do hurt) and have had off and on light nausea the last few weeks. But it's what i swear is movement in my pelvic region that is freaking me out. How can I have all these symptoms and NOT have a pos. on the hpt? I've never failed those before when I was pregnant. I always showed BFP the first day of a missed period. Now, I figured I'd be about 16-17 weeks and still no bfp. I have a Dr. appt next Tuesday but this is drving me nuts until then! Help! If not pregnancy, then WHAT could it be?!!!
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By: jpendelton | 17-10-2008
what is unexplained infertility, the doctors can't find anything wrong (falopian tubes, polips,lesions,hormones) but im still not pregnant. Can poor digestion prevent pregnancy? what can I do? I'm only 23 and I have a 5 year old, it happened once what can i do to make it happen again?
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hellow i wonder if any one could help me, i am currently in a 9 year relationship and my partner and i have hade unprotected sex every other day for the whole 9 years and she hasnt once fell pregnant throughout that time, i had given up on the chance of her falling pregnant, now 9 years on and she has fallen, could any one tell me is this sort of peireod common, i feel very depressed at the moment because all i keep saying to myself is that its not mine! i am 43 years old and i had a sperm count done in a previous relationship 10 years ago whitch was very low, please can somone help me!
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