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