What are some symptoms of pregnancy?

Question

Is six weeks too early to detect the pregnancy hormone? Is a craving for cold boiled peanuts and peanut butter a symptom? Does your urine change?

Answer 1

I don't know about cravings for peanuts or urine changes (although, usually pregnancy tests involve urine, so at some extent, I'm sure it does.) but no, six weeks is not to early to test for pregnancy. You should be able to detect a pregnancy immediately following your first missed period. I'm no doctor, but I've lived through three of them. I found that cravings usually start later in the pregnancy, but a general rule of thumb for making advice like that is that every woman is different. So results may vary ;)

Answer 2

Hello, try some of these

Tender, swollen breasts
One of the early signs of pregnancy is sensitive, sore breasts caused by increasing levels of hormones. The soreness may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. Your discomfort should diminish significantly after the first trimester, as your body adjusts to the hormonal changes.

Fatigue
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness.

You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of the common discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep

Nausea or vomiting
If you're like most women, morning sickness won't hit until about a month after conception. (A lucky few escape it altogether.) But some women do start to feel queasy a bit earlier. And not just in the morning, either — pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting can be a problem morning, noon, or night.

About half of women with nausea feel complete relief by the beginning of the second trimester. For most others it takes another month or so for the queasiness to ease up.

Increased sensitivity to odors
If you're newly pregnant, it's not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna sandwich or cup of coffee and for certain aromas to trigger your gag reflex. Though no one knows for sure, this may be a side effect of rapidly increasing amounts of estrogen in your system. You may also find that certain foods you used to enjoy are suddenly completely repulsive to you.

Abdominal bloating
Hormonal changes in early pregnancy may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some women have just before their period arrives. That's why your clothes may feel snugger than usual at the waistline, even early on when your uterus is still quite small.

Frequent urination
Shortly after you become pregnant, you may find yourself hurrying to the bathroom all the time. Why? Mostly because during pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, which leads to extra fluid being processed by your kidneys and ending up in your bladder.

This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester and continue or worsen as your pregnancy progresses and your growing baby exerts more pressure on your bladder.

A missed period
If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you'll probably take a pregnancy test long before you notice any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may signal pregnancy before you realize you didn't get your period.

Your basal body temperature stays high
If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant

Good luck.

Answer 3

well first of all if you are pregnant DO NOT eat peanuts, they are harmfull to the baby as they cause allergies when the baby is born. trust me thats all i wanted and i could'nt. you can eat any other nuts just not peanuts, are your breasts swollen or tender?do you feel sick? and have a test. once you have found out and if you are go to www.boots.co.uk and look at the parent to be section it will give you a list of all the foods you should avoid whilst pregnant. good luck

Answer 4

As my wife says "All of the above!" and she is preganant for the second time in as many years. My sister is an O.B. and she said you can detect the preg. hormone fairly quickly so six weeks would not be quick.

Answer 5

11 early signs of pregnancy

1. Delay of Menstruation
Late? While this is a key sign of pregnancy, other possible causes could be excessive weight gain or loss; fatigue; hormonal problems; stress; birth control; and breastfeeding.
2. Nausea and Vomiting
Feeling nauseous? It could be morning sickness, but it could also be food poisoning, stress, and a variety of other stomach disorders.
3. Tender or Swollen Breasts
Breast tenderness is a common first sign of pregnancy that typically begins one to six weeks after conception.
4. Feeling Exhausted or Sleepy
Can?t stay awake? Fatigue is definitely a sign of pregnancy but can also be caused by stress, illness, depression, and other mental strains.
5. Backaches
An aching back can signal pregnancy, but usually it?s not an issue until the second or third trimester
6. Frequent Headaches
For some women, headaches are a painful sympton of pregnancy, typically caused by higher estrogen levels.
7. Food Cravings
Dying for potato chips? Can?t stop dreaming of dairy? Want a pickle so bad you can taste it?
8. Darkening of Areola
Has the area around your nipple gotten darker? This is a common sign of pregnancy that starts about one to 14 weeks after conception and lasts throughout the pregnancy.
9. Frequent Urination
Gotta go?again?! Frequent urination is a sign of pregnancy, and usually begins about six to eight weeks after conception.
10. Fetal Movement
Is something moving around in there? Fetal movement almost always means you?re pregnant, but it doesn?t happen until 16 to 22 weeks.
11. Fetal Heart Beat
When you listen to the fluttering sound of your baby?s heart beat somewhere around 10 to 12 weeks after conception, congrats are in order.