Signs of pregnancy, which can and can not be trusted
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
delayed menstruation, morning sickness, mood swings, sudden love for lemons with salt... Layfhaker will tell you that you can rely on, and what the symptoms just superstition, and explains when it is necessary to do the test on pregnancy.
On what term there are signs of pregnancy
Talk about some more or less reliable signs can be no earlier than five weeks of pregnancy. This refers to the period of maternity always. What it is?
Gestational age is never counted from the moment of conception, because it is impossible to determine that date (even if you know, when I was a sexual contact).
To avoid confusion, the term of pregnancy is considered the first day of the last menstrual period. Measure it always in weeks, not months.
So why not work to determine pregnancy before five weeks? Shortly we shall understand the theory.
To get pregnant, the egg must meet sperm in the fallopian tube. This should happen within one or two days after ovulation - egg maturation in the ovaries. The fertilized egg from the fallopian tube goes into the uterus, to attach to it.
Attachment between fertilization and embryo to the uterus takes several days.
First, the fertilized egg reaches the uterus, then still waiting for attachment. This period takes 5 to 9 days after conception. During the transition into the uterus of the egg is time to share a few times and to form an embryo. If the division of the egg take place properly, the defective embryo can not attach to the uterus. That is, the pregnancy is over before it began. And such cases to 80%, with the majority of women do not notice these processes, because they can not be traced. Then the embryo must attach to the uterine wall. It will take up to two weeks.
What does this mean for us? This means that trying to detect pregnancy soon after sexual intercourse is meaningless.
As a general rule, understand that you are pregnant, you can not until the fifth or sixth week of pregnancy.
That is, the first day of the last menstrual period should take about five weeks. During this time, there is a conception, the egg attaches to the uterus, the body begins to produce hCG (Especially a hormone necessary for the successful start of pregnancy), the fertilized egg becomes noticeably ultrasound. And this despite the fact that you have a standard menstrual cycle - from 21 to 32 days. For exceptional cases and deadlines will be different.
Signs that indicate pregnancy
As we already knew, immediately after sexual contact of any particular signs of pregnancy can not speak. Sometimes there are particularly sensitive women who are at the level of intuition can determine that the body that something has changed. But such feelings can not be measured and confirm, so determine you are pregnant or not, will not work on them.
How to suspect and confirm pregnancy?
No menstruation
A delay of more than seven days - it is an occasion to get to the doctor and tests that will show exactly what happened. Sometimes during pregnancy there are false menstruation, implantation bleeding. If regular monthly pass is somehow not so it makes sense to check why.
sore breasts
It is an indirect symptom that can not be shown or signal a breast diseases (or uncomfortable bra). Usually breast responds to hormonal changes in the body.
Positive pregnancy test
Pharmacy tests detect hCG levels, the same hormone that is released when attaching the ovum to the uterus. In terms of this it happens at the same time at which the delayed menses. Therefore, the test is recommended to do the first day of delay.
Any home test can show a false result, so do not be lazy to repeat the test and, if doubts remain - an accurate examination.
Blood Test for hCG
For the analysis in the laboratory must pass fasting blood from a vein. Such verification is more accurate than the pharmacy rapid tests and the result you get is still fast, the most in a day.
The result may be false, but in very rare cases, usually talking about some kind of disease, but this is a topic for communication with a physician.
ultrasound
Ultrasound examination after the fifth week of pregnancy, your doctor may have already seen the fertilized egg to identify an ectopic pregnancy, check the status of bodies.
Fetal heartbeat and wiggling
Obstetrician-gynecologist with special equipment can hear the fetal heartbeat with a 8-9-th week, and from 16-18 th week of the stethoscope only need to do this. By the 20th week has felt fetal movements, and forms often speak for themselves - it's the middle of pregnancy. But there are also cases when a woman is not aware of his condition and at this time.
Special state bodies
Some signs of pregnancy only seen the doctor and he will definitely mark them during the inspection.
Early signs of pregnancy that much about what they say
The woman's body reacts to the new situation, therefore, the state of the pregnant woman is different from the usual. Some prompt reaction that takes place.
Growing basal temperature
It can be seen only women who every day this same temperature check and prevent measurement errors. Increased basal body temperature indicates ovulation (favorable time for conception), pregnancy. Or just the fact that she has raised. Or even the usual statistical error.
Morning sickness
This sign loves to show in the film, so that the audience realized that the heroine is pregnant. Toxemia in the first and second trimester of pregnancy is indeed often hurts. However, morning sickness does not start immediately after conception.
Nausea week after the alleged conception - this is more digestive problems, rather than morning sickness.
Everything has changed
Because of new processes in the body is changing a lot.
- Always want to sleep.
- The mood becomes unstable, there is irritability and tearfulness.
- There are new gustatory habits: I want to sweet, sour, salty, unusual food combinations. A favorite before meals, on the contrary, cease to please.
- It felt unwell as for mild colds.
All these signs are unstable, do not indicate exactly a pregnancy and give additional tips for a delay.
Often want to use the toilet
Due to the fact that increases the level of hCG, even at relatively early stages of a woman often have to go to the toilet: it seems that the bladder is constantly crowded, although it is not so. This feature appears after the attachment of the ovum to the uterus.
A more frequent urination - inflammation of the bladder symptom, so do not be confused.
fish dreamed
Even if the fish spawned, rely on the signs is not necessary. And try to find methods of pregnancy with iodine, a ring on a string, and fortune telling. The usual test is faster, and the results it is obviously more accurate.
How to Detect Pregnancy
To begin with - to listen to yourself, but do not go crazy. More or less significant symptoms appear within a few weeks after conception, so I do not need every day to do the test and look out under the microscope two strips. If hard about the possible pregnancyIt is possible to get a full set of false symptoms: the morning sickness and mood swings, and love for lemons with salt.
And when the body is sending unambiguous signals - delay, pain and other symptoms - it is necessary to go to the doctor.