Need to know if you're pregnant?

Question

I have seen this question over and over and over and over..it's a bit repetitive. Most of these girls are quite young, and may not have taken a biology class in high school. I will however list a few general rules for knowing if and when you are pregnant. Ok here goes:

I don't care what people say, you arn't likely to show a positive result on a home test until you are about 5 to 6 weeks pregnant. Most test will advertise you can take the test up to 5 days before your missed period. All this depends on how much of the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hormone or HCG your body is producing. However a doc can take a blood test to find out about 2 weeks after conception.

Most symptoms will not show until you can verify with a test, the most obvious being your missed period. However some can mistake what is known as implantation bleeding as a period. No matter what anyone says you can not have a "period" while you are pregnant.

A period is caused from shedding the uterine lining that builds up to "house" your impending baby, should one be conceived. When a bay isn't conceived you shed the lining, hence your period. Should you bleed during pregnancy your doc should know about it and moniter it. There are a number of reasons a woman could bleed during pregnancy. None of which is a "period".

Now, Back to symptoms. Some women experince Nausea as their first symptom and tender brest, bloating and minor cravings. Weight gain can be known to happen too. Most of these will not show until you are about maybe 4 weeks along..most of the time at least 6 weeks along, or 2 weeks after your missed period. This can differ among different women. You can however worry so much that you can worry your body into "believing" you are pregnant and thus causing your body to stress which will result in a missed period or nausea. When in doubt take a test or go to your doc. They have seen it and heard it all before!!

I sincerely hope this helps some of you. Another thing is that you can't possibly get pregnant unless sperm reaches an egg. Therefore you can get pregnant using the pull-out method, but not from anal sex. Just use safe-sex procedures if you want to avoid the whole confusing mess all together!

amosunknown, thank you for stressing that. I did not mention that yes most all doctors will time a pregnancy from the first date of your last period, not conception as that is hard to determine. Thanks for all your imput..and might I stress that every woman is different. Things will not be the same with one female as they be with the next!

Answer 1

good idea posting this...to bad it cant be permantent tho...i really get tired of seeing the exact same question from 15 year old girls saying stuff like "omg i had sex yesterday and i was on my period and i have all the pregnancy symptoms am i pregnant?" it gets really old....it would also help if some ppl did some research first too...they can always browse though old questions and on the internet.

Answer 2

That's true. I hear all the time people saying they have a period while pregnant. It's not actually a period, because that's the lining of the uterus coming out. If this were the case you would be miscarrying. It's just early pregnancy bleeding and if it is as heavy as a period, you need to get checked.

Although almost all my positive pregnancy test have been taken at about the 30th day, which is 4 weeks and 2 days. So it can be done sooner and even with a reg. test (not the early one).

Answer 3

My cousin had period like bleeding for the first five months of both her periods, for seven days a week durring the same week she always cycled. She managed to give birth to one baby, but miscarried the second and was advised not to try again. But thats an extremely rare thing.

And you're right about the 5-6 weeks pregnant home test part. although thats not 5-6 weeks from conception, its from the date of your last period, which is when doctors start counting the weeks of your pregnancy. Technically its about 2-3 weeks from conception, which is when you ovulated, generally about day 14 in a 28 day cycle.

I got pregnant while on my period, which is another rare thing. We're a rare breed in this family :)

I wish more young girls simply DIDNT have sex, or just went and had a blood test done instead of lamenting over it.

Answer 4

that's a good one...

one thing more.

youre not prepared youre scared Dont do it!
youre not ready youre scared Dont do it!
youre pregnant or you think you are go to a doctor...
or buy a pregnancy test its so affordable no age limit
and its all over the drugstore....

but still if youre to young dont do it.
schiesse!!!!

you go!!!!!

Answer 5

Thanks for posting this...not too many people are smart enough to buy a home test or just go see a doctor.

Answer 6

no, I am not pregnant because I wouldn't be stupid enough to not tell my partner to wrap it up.

Answer 7

You tell it girl!

Answer 8

right, and the question is?