Could you be pregnant? Most likely you won't notice any symptoms until about the time you've missed a period — or a week or two later.
If you're not keeping track of your menstrual cycle or if it varies widely from one month to the next, you may not be sure when to expect your period. But if you start to experience some of the symptoms below — not all women get them all — and you haven't had a period for a while, you may very well be pregnant. Take a home pregnancy test to find out for sure!
10. 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.
9. 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.
8. Implantation bleeding
Some women have a small amount of vaginal bleeding around 11 or 12 days after conception (close to the time you might notice a missed period). The bleeding may be caused by the fertilized egg burrowing into the blood-rich lining of your uterus — a process that starts just six days after fertilization — but no one knows for sure.
The bleeding is very light (appearing as red spotting or pink or reddish-brown staining) and lasts only a day or two. (Let your practitioner know if you notice any bleeding or spotting, particularly if it's accompanied by pain, since this can be a sign of an ectopic pregnancy.)
7. 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.
6. 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.
5. 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.
4. 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.
3. 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.
2. 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.
And finally...
1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test
In spite of what you might read on the box, many home pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to detect most pregnancies until about a week after a missed period. So if you decide to take one earlier than that and get a negative result, try again in a few days.
Hope this helps!
http://www.babycenter.com/pregnancy-symptoms
2007-01-15 15:25:57
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answered by Lisa D 2
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Those are the same feelings I have and my last period was Dec 21st. You probably ovulated around the 2-6th though. Usually it is before you ovulate when you get pregnant, or on that day. Maybe you ovulated a couple days later than normal. It depends on your cycle the previous month.
I took a test and so far mine are saying negative so maybe try testing in a couple days or go to the dr. and get a blood test
good luck and take care
2007-01-15 15:24:45
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answered by princesandy2004 2
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If you had sex on Jan. 7 and 9, then it is too early to have any signs of pregnancy. Sounds like to me you have a bladder infection or a urinary tract infection. Or, with pain radiating to the back, it could be an ulcer or pancreatitis. If it is right sided lower abdomen pain, then you could very well have appendicitis I would go see a doctor if I were you. If it anything that I mentioned you need medication.
2007-01-15 15:30:43
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answered by ragincajun1957 4
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It may be a little too soon to test. If your cycles are normally 28 days I would think by the weekend you should be able to get an accurate answer. It sounds like you could be pregnant but then again, it could just be PMS. The only way to know is to take a pregnancy test and see.
2007-01-15 15:24:03
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answered by busemomme 5
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You could be but its a little early to have symptoms. But if you are symptoms are of course nausea, constant tiredness, cravings, sore breasts. When u walk and it hurts thats not good at all! u should go to the doctor ASAP! are they cramps? if theyre cramps then thats normal. but hurting every step isnt right. And i usually lay on my side but ever since ive been pregnant ive been laying on my stomach for some reason, so not bein able to lay on your stomach isnt normal either. Go to the doctor in case its something that is going to really hurt u like cervical cancer or something!
2007-01-15 15:27:53
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answered by Anonymous
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Sounds like you're pregnant to me. Be sure not to take any medicine for these symptoms, especially if you start feeling like you have a cold. Go buy a pregnancy test, but just to be sure you need to go see a doctor. And good job on keeping up with the dates!
2007-01-15 15:24:39
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answered by pngstar06@sbcglobal.net 2
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you may have the stomach flu. that seems to be going around alot. i think its far to soon for you to be having morning sickness or any type of backaches. but if you really want to know wait until your period is late and take a pregnancy test only way to be 100% sure.
2007-01-15 15:22:57
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answered by Emmy 3
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You could just want to be pregant and thinking all this, not to be mean, but I've had that happen to me, But you could be, you'll just have to wait until Jan. 20th, and see if "it" comes again.
2007-01-15 15:22:16
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answered by Dana V 2
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GO get a blood test and find out for sure
2007-01-15 15:39:10
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answered by jazyj 2
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how about a pregnancy test for 10 bucks from the drug store?
2007-01-15 15:21:37
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answered by freshbliss 6
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