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This not only demonstrated that pregnancy sickness starts earlier than previous research has shown, but has also shown that using date of ovulation narrows the time frame that symptoms start to 3 days, compared to 11 days if last menstrual period is used. Lead author Professor Roger Gadsby of Warwick Medical School said: "The precise course of pregnancy sickness is unknown, but this research shows that it occurs at a specific developmental stage, in a specific timeslot.
If we know that symptoms occur in a very narrow window days after ovulation, researchers can concentrate their efforts on that particular stage of development to find the cause of the condition, both anatomically and biochemically. This research further reinforces that nothing could be further from the truth, that this is a biological problem related to the development of the early fetus.
Since it's one of the first symptoms of pregnancy many women report, babies might be in the air if your sniffer's suddenly more sensitive and easily offended. Tender, swollen breasts and darkening, bumpy areolas are among the breast changes you might experience early in pregnancy. The hormones estrogen and progesterone deserve most of the credit or the blame for this early pregnancy symptom. The breast tenderness is pain with a gain, though, since it's part of your body's preparation for the milk-making to come.
Your areolas the circles around your nipples may get darker and increase in diameter. You'll also likely start to notice tiny bumps growing in size and number on your areolas. These bumps, called Montgomery's tubercles, were always there, but now they're gearing up to produce more oils that lubricate your nipples once baby starts nursing. Imagine climbing a mountain without training while carrying a backpack that weighs a little more every day. That's pregnancy in a nutshell!
In other words, it's hard work, which is why fatigue is an early pregnancy symptom almost every mom-to-be experiences. When you get pregnant, a huge amount of energy goes into building a placenta, the life-support system for your baby. All that can zap you of your usual get-up-and-go, and cause pregnancy fatigue shortly after you conceive. Light spotting or implantation bleeding before you'd expect your period is sometimes an early pregnancy symptom signaling that an embryo has implanted itself into the uterine wall , which may be accompanied by menstrual-like cramps.
Spotting, however, can sometimes be a mid-cycle blip before your usual period, especially if you have an irregular or disrupted cycle. Have you become a student of your cervical mucus?
This thin, milky-white discharge is normal and healthy, but speak to your practitioner if it appears lumpy or thick. Two to three weeks after conception you may notice an increased need to pee. This new gotta-go feeling is due to the pregnancy hormone hCG, which increases blood flow to your kidneys, helping them to more efficiently rid your body and, eventually, your baby's body of waste. Your growing uterus is also beginning to put some pressure on your bladder, leaving less storage space for urine and making you head for the toilet more frequently.
Yet again, blame those pregnancy-related hormonal changes for the mood swings you may be experiencing once you're expecting.
As early as 4 weeks into your pregnancy, you may feel a PMS-style moodiness; later in the first trimester and often throughout the rest of pregnancy, you could be up one minute and anxious or down the next. Aside from pregnancy hormones running amok, your life is about to change in a big way, so it's completely normal for your moods to go haywire.
Do what you can to give yourself a break, eat well, get enough sleep and pamper yourself. These early pregnancy symptoms tend to appear around or after the time that you miss your period, usually sometime between weeks 4 and 9.
But again, every woman and every pregnancy is different, so you may not experience these symptoms at all, while other moms-to-be may notice them a little earlier. It might be stating the obvious, but if you've missed a period especially if your periods usually run like clockwork , you're probably suspecting pregnancy, and for good reason. A missed period is one early pregnancy symptom all expectant moms experience!
Having trouble buttoning your jeans? Early pregnancy bloating is hard to distinguish from pre-period bloat, but it's an early pregnancy symptom that many women feel soon after they conceive.
You can't blame that puffy, ate-too-much feeling on your baby yet, but you can blame it on the hormone progesterone, which helps slow down digestion, giving the nutrients from foods you eat more time to enter your bloodstream and reach your baby. Unfortunately, bloating is often accompanied by constipation.
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