Wider says, although not everyone may notice or feel this. This can happen after the egg attaches to your uterine wall, Dr. This goes back to progesterone slowing down your GI tract: It can also cause you to feel gassy and bloated, Dr. You won’t necessarily feel any different, but you may notice a slightly increased temp if you’ve been tracking it. This is due to a rise in progesterone levels, which stay high if your egg is fertilized, Dr. When it comes to pregnancy, a headache can be “caused by a combination of a rise in hormones and an increase in blood volume,” Dr. This isn’t overly common and it’s a tough one to figure out given that-hello-you can get a headache for a ton of different reasons. As a result, you may feel a little stopped up. “Progesterone relaxes the smooth muscle of your gut, slowing down transit time for food,” Dr.
Pooping less than usual? You could be pregnant. “Some women are more vulnerable to that than others,” Dr. Still, you might notice you feel a little queasy before that. “Nausea is thought to be a direct result of the HCG hormone, which peaks at eight to 10 weeks from the last menstrual period before declining,” Dr.
If you’re going to have them, it’s more likely that the symptoms will be more noticeable after your missed period due to increased levels of pregnancy hormones. Not everyone experiences nausea and/or vomiting with pregnancy. So, you might feel a little soreness or notice swelling early on. When you’re pregnant, increasing levels of progesterone can make your breast glands expand (so that you can breastfeed down the road), Dr. But, if you are pregnant, you can feel a little fatigued from high levels of the hormone progesterone and an increase of blood production in your body, Dr. Greves says, given that you can feel tired from so many things, including being about to get your period. “Pregnancy hormonal changes can cause the kidneys to expand and churn out more urine, which helps the body rid itself of waste more rapidly,” Dr. If you're pretty aware of how often you pee, you might notice that you’re hitting the toilet a little more often than usual. Keep your eye out for these early pregnancy symptoms: These symptoms aren’t necessarily a guarantee of pregnancy-taking a test is really the only way to confirm that-but they could be a sign that you’re expecting. What are the symptoms of early pregnancy?
But some women are more sensitive to changes in their bodies than others, or may experience certain symptoms like implantation bleeding or cramps five to six days after they become pregnant, says women’s health expert Jennifer Wider, MD. Schaffir says, it’s unlikely that you’d have extreme symptoms. Still, the levels of HCG are pretty low at this point, although not so low that a test won’t pick it up. HCG starts entering your bloodstream about seven to 10 days after you conceive, but it “doesn't reach levels that would show up on a pregnancy test until a couple of days before a period would be missed,” he says. “Human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG, is the hormone tested by a pregnancy test, and which contributes to the secretion of progesterone, the main hormone responsible for most pregnancy symptoms,” explains Jonathan Schaffir, MD, an ob-gyn at The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center.
Still, you can get other symptoms earlier than that, and before you can even take a pregnancy test to confirm the big news. How early do pregnancy symptoms start?Īgain, a missed period is really the biggest tip-off that you might be pregnant. (Although you should definitely do that to confirm the situation when it’s time.) Before that, keep this early pregnancy information in mind. So, while your BFF might swear that her breasts immediately swelled the second she got pregnant, you probably won’t have the same experience.Īll of that said, there are a few potential tip-offs that you could be expecting that don’t involve you needing to take a pregnancy test. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĪlso, every woman-and every pregnancy-is different, Dr.
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