We create our articles with NCT antenatal teachers, postnatal leaders and breastfeeding counsellors, as well as academics and representatives from relevant organisations and charities. Read more about our editorial review process. Am I pregnant? Early signs and symptoms. Read time 6 minutes. Breadcrumb Home Pregnancy Am I pregnant? Email Post Tweet Post. What are the early pregnancy signs and symptoms? Here are the pregnancy signs that could give the game away: Changes of appetite Feeling of sickness, nausea and vomiting Strange taste in your mouth Constipation Needing to wee more often Headaches Breast changes Tiredness Mood swings Spotting Cramps.
Healthline This video looks at the early pregnancy symptoms and signs:. These changes can include: breasts getting bigger see our article about bras for pregnancy if your old bras are getting too tight breasts feeling tender breasts tingling veins becoming more visible areola area around your breast darkening. NHS Choices, ; Healthline, Show references. Information you can trust from NCT When it comes to content, our aim is simple: every parent should have access to information they can trust.
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Support NCT Charity by becoming a member. Join today. Sign up for free. Deep breaths! 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.
Your areolas the circles around your nipples may get darker and increase in diameter. Two to three weeks after conception you may notice an increased need to pee.
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. Having trouble buttoning your jeans? Unfortunately, bloating is often accompanied by constipation. Getting the right amount of fiber in your diet can help keep you regular.
Though not a foolproof early pregnancy symptom there are other reasons your temp can rise , it could give you advance notice of the big news. Very early pregnancy symptoms like sensitivity to smell and tender breasts may show up before you miss your period , as soon as a few days after conception, while other early signs of pregnancy like spotting might appear around one week after sperm meets egg.
Still others like urinary frequency often appear about two weeks or so following conception. That said, early pregnancy symptoms crop up at different times in different women. Some experience very few if any of these signs until several weeks into their pregnancies.
Though many women never feel any early pregnancy symptoms, others suffer from them all. And if you are expecting a baby, congratulations! 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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