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If you can't remember your menstrual cycle clearly, or if your period isn't very regular, you may not be sure when your period should be.
However, if you start to feel some of the following symptoms (not all women experience all symptoms) and your period hasn't come in a while, you may be pregnant! You can do a self-test for the first trimester to find out.
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Breasts become larger and more sensitive
One of the early signs of pregnancy is breast sensitivity and tenderness, which is caused by increased levels of your hormones.
The feeling of gas is similar to what you felt before your period, only a little more intense.
This discomfort will improve significantly after 3 months of pregnancy, when your body has adapted to the hormonal changes during pregnancy.
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Exhaustion
Do you suddenly feel tired or even exhausted? No one knows exactly what causes fatigue in early pregnancy, but a rapidly increasing level of progesterone (also called progesterone) can make you feel particularly sleepy.
Once you're in the second trimester, you'll start to feel more energetic than you would in the first trimester, but by the third trimester, tiredness usually returns.
That's because you'll gain a lot of weight, and the discomfort that is common during pregnancy will also affect the quality of your night's sleep.
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Implantable bleeding
Around the 11th ~ 12th day after conception, some women will experience a small amount of vaginal bleeding when you find yourself missing your period. This vaginal bleeding can be caused by the implantation of the fertilized egg into the blood-rich endometrium, a process that begins 6 days after fertilization.
However, no one knows exactly what causes implantable bleeding.
Implantation bleeding is very small (some red blood spots, or pink or reddish-brown spots) that last about a day or two.
If you notice bleeding or redness, especially if you're also experiencing pain, it's important to see a doctor because it could be a sign of an ectopic pregnancy (ectopic pregnancy).
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Nausea or vomiting
If you're like most women, morning sickness doesn't appear until about a month after you conceive. A lucky few women do not experience this symptom throughout their pregnancy.
However, there are also some women who start to feel nauseous before this. Morning sickness does not only occur in the morning, but can occur in the middle of the day or in the evening.
Almost half of women with morning sickness no longer experience nausea or vomiting at the beginning of the second trimester.
Most of the remaining women may need to continue for about 1 month for morning sickness symptoms to subside.
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More sensitive to odors
If you've just been pregnant, you may not be able to stand the smell of stir-fried food or tea, and some scents can make you nauseous. Although no one knows for sure, it may be due to a rapid increase in estrogen in your body. You may also find that things that you usually enjoy eating can suddenly make you feel sick as well.
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Abdominal distension
Hormonal changes early in pregnancy can leave you feeling gasy, and some women experience this feeling before their period.
That's why early in pregnancy, when your womb is still very young, you feel the waist of your clothes tighten.
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Frequent urination
Soon after you get pregnant, you may find yourself running to the bathroom all the time. Why is this so? Mainly because during pregnancy, the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, causing more fluid to be drained into the bladder through kidney processing and become urine.
This symptom may begin to appear as early as 6 weeks pregnant. As the pregnancy progresses, the growing baby puts more pressure on your bladder, and the frequent urination may continue or even worsen.
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The day has come, but the menstrual period has not come!
If your period is usually regular, but this time your period did not come on time, you may have taken a pregnancy self-test before noticing the above symptoms. But if your periods aren't regular, or if you don't remember your menstrual cycle, early pregnancy reactions such as nausea, chest tenderness, and frequent toilet visits may be a sign that you're pregnant before you even realize you're not menstruating.
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Basal body temperature remains high
If you record your basal body temperature and find yourself in a hot state for 18 consecutive days, you are likely to be pregnant.
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Positive self-test for early pregnancy
Regardless of what is written on the package, many pregnancy self-tests detect most pregnancies after a woman misses her period for 1 week. So if you decide to take a test before that and you get a negative result, you can test again in a few days.
Once your self-test result is positive, please go to the hospital for further examination. Don't forget to update your profile now and check out our pregnancy section for more and more exciting content. Also, congratulations on your promotion to mother-to-be!
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