| There are several signs and symptoms of | | | | Perhaps the hallmark of early pregnancy signs is |
| pregnancy that you may experience very early | | | | nausea. This is also a symptom that many |
| on in your pregnancy, before your period is ever | | | | women will blame on food poisoning or a bug that |
| missed. Unfortunately, these signs are not unlike | | | | they must have caught at work. Because the |
| the symptoms you experience before your | | | | nausea usually grows gradually, being very slight |
| period, making it hard to distinguish what is really | | | | the first few days and then increasing, it's often |
| going on. Determining you are pregnant before a | | | | thought to be a stomach flu or something of the |
| missed period or before you take a pregnancy | | | | like. Nausea that doesn't subside is often the first |
| test is a bit like putting together the pieces of a | | | | indication to a woman that she may be pregnant, |
| puzzle. You may or may not experience all of the | | | | especially if she hadn't planned the pregnancy. |
| signs, but it is likely that you will experience at | | | | Many women report that they feel achy along |
| least one of them. | | | | with the nausea; although many doctors believe |
| First, you may notice that your breasts are very | | | | that this is simply a psychological response to the |
| tender. Many women experience tender breasts | | | | mental preparation for one's period. |
| and associate it with PMS, but raging hormones | | | | A missed period is a sure sign that there is |
| also cause this when you first become pregnant. | | | | something going on, usually pregnancy. If you do |
| The breasts may not be tender, but they may | | | | not keep track of your periods or you do not |
| be a bit swollen in the first hours and days after | | | | have regular periods this one can take awhile to |
| conception. From the moment you become | | | | catch onto, but if the nausea doesn't tip a woman |
| pregnant your body is preparing itself for the | | | | off to the fact that she is pregnant, than the |
| development and birth of your child. | | | | missed period usually will. |
| You may notice that you have a general lack of | | | | About the time that the missed period and |
| energy. Many women feel very tired early on in | | | | nausea set in, other women report an increase in |
| their pregnancy. They often attribute this | | | | hunger. This is probably owed to the fact that the |
| tiredness to other things that are going on in their | | | | body is working hard to support the development |
| lives, but it is often owed to pregnancy. This | | | | of the embryo. Other women report that they |
| fatigue is a result of changing hormones and body | | | | have no appetite at all. This sign can swing either |
| chemistry as well as the sheer amount of work | | | | way and may vary from day to day depending |
| that a woman's body is doing when conception | | | | on nausea and other pregnancy symptoms. You |
| occurs. The best thing you can do if you | | | | can read about some other less common |
| experience this is to get to bed earlier and even | | | | pregnancy signs if you visit the website. |
| sleep in later if you can! | | | | Unfortunately there isn't a checklist that one can |
| Next, you may experience implantation bleeding. | | | | be given to determine that she is pregnant. Every |
| This is a very rare sign of pregnancy, but it does | | | | woman, in fact, every pregnancy has different |
| happen. A few days before your menstrual cycle | | | | symptoms. Some women report that they had |
| should begin; you may experience a brown or | | | | no symptoms at all, while others realize they had |
| slightly pink vaginal discharge. This discharge | | | | all of the signs and symptoms listed here, and |
| occurs when the fertilized egg implants in the | | | | then some! Some times pregnancy signs are seen |
| uterus. If you don't experience the implantation | | | | in hindsight, but if you are looking for them, there |
| bleeding it's not a sure sign that you are not | | | | is a good chance you'll catch onto what your |
| pregnant, as it is only experienced in 1/3 of all | | | | body is telling you long before you use a |
| pregnancies. | | | | pregnancy test! |