When do you start showing signs of pregnancy?

Question

If I conceieved Feb 11-16 when will I start showing signs? When can I take a pregnancy test? Help! I am so excited but very scared too, this is a big year for me my boyfriend and I are getting married this summer, and now maybe a child.

Answer 1

thats great, congratulations! - you will be able to detect the hormone hgc in your urine roughly 12 days after conception with a home preg. test,. so around the time your period is due - i think the doctor can do a more sensitive blood test as changes in your body begin almost immediately - if you have been using bcp it may take more than a couple of cycles to get pregnant.
my partner and i are ttc at the moment as well and i am v excited about it and the next 2 weeks waiting till i can test is going to drive me crazy! good luck i hope its good news for you
xx

Answer 2

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When do you start showing signs of pregnancy?
If I conceieved Feb 11-16 when will I start showing signs? When can I take a pregnancy test? Help! I am so excited but very scared too, this is a big year for me my boyfriend and I are getting married this summer, and now maybe a child.

Answer 3

Hi All pregnancies are different, while a lot of women experience most of the same symptoms; it is difficult to tell how far along you are in pregnancy because of morning sickness. Some women will get it within two weeks of their pregnancy and it could very well las the entire pregnancy, while some may never experience it at all. If you go to the doctors more than likely they will ask you when was your last period and they will do a pregnancy test to confirm if your pregnant or not. They will then use either some kind of circle calendar or give you a sonogram to determine how far along you are.

Answer 4

You should be able to take a positive test ten days or so after conception, if its negative wait a week...take another. False negatives are common. But if it's positive...you're pregnant, girl! By this time you may have already started to feel some symptoms aka sore boobs. Other than that the symptoms come on a little slower and are different for everyone. Good Luck and buy What To Expect When You're Expecting.

Answer 5

There is a new pregnancy test on the market that can detect pregnancy very early. I would pee on that & see what happens. If it comes back negative, I'd feel a bit more settled, but if my period was as much as 10 minutes late, I'd buy another & try it again.

BTW-I knew I was preggers after about a week. My pee started smelling funny.

Best wishes to you & your future hubby! Congratulations on your impending marriage!

Answer 6

Emily,
I can relate to your excitment and worry I have 6 children and with each one I felt exactly what you are right now.You sure can find out if you are pregnant or not.If you go to your doctor they can do a blood test and let you know. If you have missed your period then you can do a pregnancy test but for the best results I would go for the blood test.Good luck!

Answer 7

That is great, the first sign is usually a missed period and then a positive pregnancy test. But there is also other symptoms to look out for. Everyone is different and some woman may not experience any symptoms. I got my first at about 6 weeks of pregnancy and it was tender and swollen breasts and nausea. Here is a couple of other symptoms...

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.

Once you've gotten a positive result, make an appointment with your practitioner. Now head over to our pregnancy area. Also, don't forget to update your profile and sign up for our "My Baby This Week" newsletter. Congratulations!

Answer 8

i would wait 2 weeks to take a hpt. It is way to early to show up on a test now as you only concieved a day or two ago. Good luck.

Answer 9

You can take a pregnancy test right now if you wanted. You usually can tell if your pregnant because of no period, tenderness in the breasts, and having like an upset stomach and being tired alot.

Answer 10

it is still to eary to tell. give it about a week and take a test then in another week take a test if the last one came up negative. most woman cannot tell until atleast 6 weeks. good luck and congrads