The very early symptoms of pregnancy don't start immediately. You won't know that you are pregnant right away and most women don't realize that they are until they miss their menstrual period. If you have been trying to get pregnant for some time, you may even use a pregnancy wheel to help you determine the best time of the month to conceive. If this is true, you won't get any results right away. The earliest time you can find out for sure if you are pregnant is at least a week after you have had intercourse during your most fertile time and by using an EPT ?an early pregnancy test.
For those who do not realize that they are pregnant, the missed period is usually the first symptom that they pay attention to. However, there are symptoms that do manifest themselves within the first two weeks and the first month. These include:
- Swollen breasts
- Darker color on the area around the nipples
- Breast soreness
- More headaches than usual
- Excessive tiredness
- Slight feelings of nausea, especially in the morning
- A dull aching pain in the lower back
- More frequent trips to the washroom
Experiencing just one of these symptoms is not enough to go on to think that you may be pregnant. All are symptoms of other conditions. Being tired or having back pain may be your body's way of telling you that you have been doing too much in the past few days or weeks. Many women also experience breast swelling and tenderness just before they are about to start their period and do not regard it as a symptom of pregnancy.
If you are pregnant, one of the very early signs that you may experience is implantation bleeding. This is the small amount of bleeding that occurs when the fetus first attaches itself to the wall of the uterus. In some women, it may just occur as spotting and they just disregard it as being left over from their period. Others may not even experience it at all. This type of bleeding occurs about ten days into the pregnancy.
Your partner may mention that you are more irritable than usual and you may even notice it yourself and wonder what it wrong. Irritability is one of the early signs of pregnancy as well. This is because as your body is going through changes that you are not aware of, it is producing a higher level of hormones and this affects your emotions. You may find yourself crying over the least little thing ?something that you would have laughed at a few weeks before. You may feel nervous and anxious and not know the reasons.
A reduction in concentration is also a very early sign of pregnancy. You may notice that you forget things quite easily or that you get bored quite easily. Sometimes this reduced concentration comes from knowing that there is something going on with your body and your emotions. You just haven's figured out that the cause is that you are pregnant.
You know you are pregnant when the early symptoms of pregnancy after ovulation begin to manifest themselves in your body. Ovulation is the release of a single, mature egg from the ovarian follicle, which, after being released, the egg is capable of being fertilized for 12 to 24 hours before it begins to disintegrate. If the released ovum or egg is fertilized and successfully implants, it results in pregnancy.
Cervix's Position Changes
One early symptom of pregnancy after ovulation is the position of the cervix. Many women track their cervical position in order to determine fertility, to wonder if there is at all any correlation between the position of the cervix and early pregnancy.
Unfortunately, there is no simple answer for all women regarding the position of the cervix. The position of the cervix during pregnancy does change but not at the same time in all women.
After ovulation, your cervix drops lower in your vagina and feels firm, it feels like the tip of your nose. When you are pregnant, the cervix will rise a bit and become softer, but the timing of this happening will vary from woman to woman. For some, this will happen shortly before their period is due, but for others, this will not happen until quite a while after their pregnancy has been confirmed.
Given how difficult it is to determine when this could happen, checking the position of your cervix to determine pregnancy is not a reliable indication of whether or not your are pregnant. More reliable ways to find out if you are pregnant is to take a sensitive home pregnancy test or by visiting your doctor for a pregnancy blood test.
Implantation Spotting
Another early symptom of pregnancy after ovulation is you bleeding due to implantation spotting. Occurring if pregnancy has been achieved, this happens about 4 to 12 days after ovulation and is the result of the egg implanting into the uterine lining which may cause a little external bleeding. This does not necessarily happen with every pregnancy.
Fatigue
When you are pregnant, you will notice fatigue to be one of the first symptoms. It's the kind of extreme fatigue resulting from not wanting to do anything except lie down, and is characterized by lethargy and dizziness in the event of too much exertion on the body.
Food Cravings/Aversions
Linked to the early pregnancy hormones that surge through the body are associated food cravings/aversions that you experience. An early symptom of pregnancy after ovulation, food cravings or aversion may mean a sudden want of a certain food - or wanting to throw up at the smell of another.
High Basal Body Temperature
There is another symptom of early symptom of pregnancy after ovulation and you can trace this if you are charting your basal body temperature. You will notice a sustained thermal shift or even a triphasic level of temperature when implantation takes place. Often a woman charting will know she's pregnant well before she can see a positive home pregnancy test. Accompanied with soreness in the breasts, and cramps, headache, moodiness and bloating, you have just completed the cycle of getting your pregnancy recorded through early symptom of pregnancy after ovulation.
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