In pregnancy, some women experience many signs and symptoms while others experience few. However, many of the symptoms are particularly common, and nearly all pregnant women will experience one or more of these signs and symptoms of pregnancy. The signs and symptoms of early pregnancy are easy to recognize, especially if this is not your first pregnancy. Regardless of how many times you get pregnant, the signs and symptoms of early pregnancy are the same. The best thing to do is to read through the article and check the signs mentioned. The more you have the more likely you are to be pregnant.
Common Pregnancy Symptoms
First Trimester
Somewhere from the 6th to 12th day after conception, the blastocyst will implant into the uterine lining and begin embryonic stage. Cessation of your monthly period is an obvious sign that you might be pregnant. The confusion sets in because a missed period can also be due to stress, illness, and fluctuations in weight. Cessation of oral contraceptives and a polycystic ovary syndrome can also lead to a missed period. If your menstrual cycle normally occurs very regularly, missing a period can be a sign.
You can also experience signs and symptoms like mood changes, food cravings, aversions, tiredness, constipation, incontinence, headache, dizziness and breast tenderness.
Second Trimester
Most women say that the second trimester if much easier compared to the first trimester. You will probably notice that symptoms like dizziness and extreme tiredness are going away. However, there are new signs and symptoms developing. Your pregnancy belly will enlarge further as your baby continues to develop and the most wonderful thing to happen within this trimester is you will feel your baby beginning to move.
You can also experience common symptoms such as body aches, abdominal itching, swelling of the ankles, fingers, and face (edema), stretch marks on some parts of your body like abdomen, thighs, and etc.
Third Trimester
Congratulations! You have reached this far. You must know that usually, other discomforts you had in your second trimester will continue. The most common problems here are difficulty of breathing, heartburn, hemorrhoids, insomnia, contractions or breast tenderness, which may show a watery pre-milk also known as colostrum.
The baby starts gaining more weight and his length is now somewhere between 16 to 18 inches. The baby's organ has become fully developed; especially the lungs continue maturing until birth date. At this point, the mother is supplying the unborn child with antibodies. Antibodies help protect the baby against certain diseases.
Additional Tips
The most common foods to trigger nausea during the first weeks of pregnancy are coffee, spicy foods, meat products, and milk. However, you should know that literally anything can trigger morning sickness during pregnancy. It is also essential to understand that all pregnancies are not the same and, therefore, pregnancy symptoms are not the same for all women.
Most people say that you should be eating twice as much. The truth is your nutrient demands increase about 300 calories per day for the second and third trimester of pregnancy.
Constipation
There's a noticeable change in your bowels in early pregnancy. The intestines may relax and function less due to changing hormones and be one of the 10 pregnancy signs.
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