19 Weeks Pregnant and Doctor Said Baby Is Very Adctive

There are an astonishing number of very early signs that you might be pregnant, and then we've compiled the most common symptoms by talking to fertility experts, midwives and obstetricians, analysing the latest scientific enquiry – and asking hundreds of mums and mums-to-be directly and in our forums.

"Symptoms of early pregnancy range from the more obvious – such as a positive early pregnancy test – to the bottom-known – such as foreign tastes and bloating," says Dr Amin Gorgy, fertility consultant and co-director of the The Fertility & Gynaecology Academy.

"The exact symptoms – and the severity of them – volition exist unlike for everyone but there are certainly a large number of early signs of pregnancy that are worth looking out for."

The main signs broadly fall into xi main categories, each affecting different physical areas of your body (such equally your breasts, your head or your tummy) or unlike emotions you may exist feeling.

Before we outset, though, a little word of caution: some of these early on pregnancy symptoms are tantalisingly like to those you go when you're pre-menstrual or when you lot're having your period – which ways it can be tough to tell whether your body's actually telling y'all yous're meaning or non.

Here is our list of the 41 earliest and virtually common symptoms and signs of pregnancy…

YOUR BREASTS

1. Sore, sensitive, heavy boobs

Soreness or tenderness in your breasts tin exist one of the very earliest pregnancy symptoms. "Changes to the breasts can actually start equally early as 1 to 2 weeks after formulation," says Dr Larisa Corda, obstetrician, gynaecologist and IVF consultant. "Pregnancy hormones tin make breasts swollen and sore. Or they may feel heavier or fuller or more than tender to touch."

It's certainly a symptom many of the mums on our forum recognise. "I started getting really sore boobs and sore nipples 7 to 10 days after my concluding period finished," says DemWatson. "I thought it was due to my period because I was also experiencing cramping. I took a pregnancy test effectually 2 weeks afterwards and information technology was positive!"

"I tested because I had really sore boobs," adds ErinDsoontobeB. "They were that sore, I had to wear a bra in the bath!"

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2. Veiny boobs

This is one of the early pregnancy signs BabyC2017 picked up on. "My boobs are And then veiny," she said. "They are normally large only the veins are never prominent. Now I tin can clearly see them – like someone drew on me in blue pen!"

"Yes, the veins in your breasts may wait more pronounced," confirms Ellie Cockburn, a midwife at the globe-famous The Portland Infirmary. "This will be due to the blood flow to the breasts increasing."

For Jo1311, her veiny boobs were definitely a sign of positive news: "I got veins on my boobs and my nipples changed colour. I tested and got a BFP [Big Fat Positive examination result]."

3. Tender, tingly, darker, more 'viscid out' nipples

Your nipples may also change significantly during the early weeks of pregnancy. "Your nipples may begin to ache, tingle or protrude more usual," says midwife Ellie. "The areoles – the dark circle around your nipple – may also become even darker and larger."

Tender nipples were the first sign for Tamarabell on our forum. "I started to become a feeling I was pregnant about 1.5 weeks before I was due on, so pretty early," she says. "I had actually tender nipples and sort of butterflies in my tummy for a few days. My test came up positive the week earlier I was due. The doctor didn't believe it and made me do some other one. I just sort of knew that something was different!"

"Who'd accept thought we'd e'er get excited about sore/nighttime nipples!" adds lynz_81, who's been significant before. "Exist warned: they will but get bigger and darker now!"

YOUR TUMMY

4. Belatedly or missed period

Beingness late or missing your monthly catamenia is the most well-known early on sign of pregnancy – and for 1 in 3 women, says the American Pregnancy Association, a missed period is still their 1st pregnancy symptom.

There are plenty of other symptoms in our list that you lot may notice before you lot miss your menstruum but, every bit Dr Larisa Corda says, "this is the one that prompts nearly women to become a pregnancy exam.

"Be warned though that not all missed or delayed periods mean you're pregnant. Sometimes weight changes, hormone problems, stress or recently coming off contraception can affect your periods and possibly pb to you lot missing a period or having a delayed menstruation."

And of grade, for many of the states, late and irregular periods tin be the norm – which is why it's useful to know other symptoms.

Proverb all that, if your flow is unusually late, it's time to take a pregnancy test.

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5. Feeling a flake sick

Probably the almost talked-about symptom is, of class, forenoon sickness. You tin really start feeling queasy from as early as 2 weeks of pregnancy, due to changes with your hormones.

That's certainly what happened to mamapink on our forum: "The start symptom I had was starting to experience slightly travel ill when in the car or on the bus."

Not every significant woman feels sick, and not every pregnant women who feels sick actually throws up. "But about nine in 10 women volition either endure from vomiting or nausea, and this tends to concluding until about 12 weeks," says Rachel Heathcock, an antenatal teacher at the NCT.

At that place is no conclusive enquiry explaining to why morning time sickness happens but, says Dr Amin Gorgy, "it is widely considered to be brought on by the sudden increase of hormone levels in your body – specifically the levels of human being chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) – that are required to develop the placenta."

"And despite its name," adds Dr Amin, "morning sickness isn't exclusively bars to the morn. It tin can strike at whatever time of the day or nighttime."

"I had morning sickness very early, at almost 3 weeks," says Bride-carly-barley, "and my tastes inverse. I couldn't consume anything strong-tasting and the scent of my husband making his morning java made me want to exist sick!"

To combat the sickness Dr Amin advises eating little and oft. "And ensure y'all keep up fluid intake. In farthermost cases, anti-sickness medication can be prescribed."

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6. Spotting or light bleeding

It'due south not unusual at all to have light spotting or bleeding in early pregnancy – in fact, information technology can occur in effectually twenty% of pregnancies.

Dr Larisa explains the science behind information technology: "This is one of the earliest signs of pregnancy and is usually associated with 'implantation bleeding' – when the fertilized egg or embryo attaches to the wall of the uterus. The embryo usually implants between 6 to 12 days after conception.

"Not all women will get spotting though, and then don't worry – it's not a reflection of how successful the implantation has been!"

Forum mum xFran82x says she had implantation bleeding viii days afterward ovulating. "I had some watery pink discharge when I wiped a few times," she says, "and then plant ii dots of brown blood on my pants. I tested the next afternoon and got a faint positive effect."

And it was similar for BabyGirlsMummy: "I had a regular 28 day bicycle and the implantation bleeding was virtually a week earlier I'd have expected my period. Mine was some pink cervical mucus for a couple of days – enough that I needed a panty liner."

If yous do bleed, our good say you should definitely become anything unusual checked out by your doctor. "In almost cases, spotting is zilch to worry about," says Dr Amin, "only it tin can be a sign of something more serious like an ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage. If y'all experience any bleeding that'southward not normal for you, seek immediate medical attention."

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7. Period-like pains

This is a confusing symptom, as information technology can happen exactly effectually the time that you would wait your regular period pains. If you're hoping y'all might be pregnant and so outset feeling menstrual-type cramps, this may be a sign of pregnancy rather than your period. Yet, information technology's one of the less common symptoms.

"These tin often happen with spotting – are are likewise the result of the embryo planting into the wall of the womb," explains midwife Ellie Cockburn.

Forum mum firsttimemum88 felt these pains at 5 weeks. "I'thousand having pains like I do on my period," she said. "I found anybody says it'south normal. A hot camomile tea helps."

8. Tum cramps

Rather than menstruum-style pains, some women experience a flake of tummy cramping. This may be due to your ligaments starting to stretch every bit your uterus (womb) starts to modify shape.

"At effectually a week after I would have ovulated, I got sharp stomach pains similar a stabbing hurting," describes forum mum gsmummy55. "Around the fourth dimension of my missed period, I felt tired, with cramps, and needed the loo more than. And a week later that, I started being ill!""

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9. Tum twinges, pulling and pinching

These are some of the terms our mums apply in our forum when describing the sometimes curious feelings many of usa take in our stomachs in early pregnancy.

Information technology might experience like your muscles are existence stretched or fifty-fifty pinched from inside, and can seem to be on either side, as forum mum Louis2 who is five weeks pregnant, describes."For the by few days," she says, "I have been having a few lower abdominal twinges, often on one side, just occasionally on the other."

"I had abdominal twinges at approx 5 weeks and panicked," addsxxmrsjohnstonexx. "But the doctor said it was simply everything stretching and changing and not to worry."

10. Bloating

"Bloating is a bottom known pregnancy symptom just it definitely can occur," says Dr Amin. And, if you find you've got a bloat crash-land way earlier any kind of baby bump, it's probably all downwards to pregnancy levels of the hormone progesterone.

"Progesterone tin can cause bloating by allowing the smooth muscle in the walls of the bowel to relax," explains obstetrician Dr Claire Hein. "Hormones often take several furnishings – some of them less desirable than others!"

"I had bad bloating in the 1st trimester," recalls forum mum Kelmo. "I could easily pull off looking v months but information technology did ease around 12 weeks."

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YOUR BODY 'Downwards At that place'

11. Needing the loo more often

If you lot're pregnant, the loo may get your new best friend over the adjacent few months. Ane Taiwanese study institute that 'urinary frequency' – aka needing to pee a lot – affects 77% of pregnant women.

At the very beginning of pregnancy, it'due south not the pressure of your growing babe on your bladder that'south causing you lot to wee a lot (that particular pleasure comes later!). Instead, information technology'south pregnancy increasing the blood flow to your kidneys by 35% to 60% – and because it'southward the kidneys job to produce urine, that ways more urine collecting in your bladder.

Every bit mum-to-be lunar eclipse says on our forum, information technology can get a bit much, especially at night. "I'one thousand v weeks and peeing at least 3 to 4 times every night. I've not got a decent sleep for nearly a week now. It surely can't get worse – I'll be sleeping on the toilet!"

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12. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

Confusingly, frequent trips to the loo tin can too be a sign of a urinary or bladder infection. And even more confusingly, both can be more likely when y'all're pregnant due to your irresolute hormones.

"Reduced immunity during pregnancy, even in the early stages, can be responsible for an increased susceptibility to urinary tract infections," explains midwife Ellie Cockburn.

Common signs of a UTI include stinging when you wee, sharp, low intestinal hurting and, sometimes, a little blood in your wee. Yous should run into your GP if you lot find whatever of them only it's not something to worry most because information technology'south hands treated – equally forum num Chloe123 says: "I had several UTIs throughout early on pregnancy. They are very common. The sooner you get a wee sample to your GP, the ameliorate so and then they can treat you lot for it."

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13. Trapped wind

Non as funny as it sounds. In fact, not funny at all – trapped current of air can requite you a painful bloated feeling in your tummy or under your ribs, even in very early pregnancy.

"Shifting hormones during the first trimester tin can interfere with normal digestion, causing trapped air current," explains midwife Ellie.

Over on our forum, mum-to-be Overjoyed was absolutely not overjoyed by her trapped-air current symptoms. "I suffered terribly with this for virtually ii weeks," she says. "It was agony ane night and I thought it must be a test to see how I might cope with contractions!"

Of course, trapped wind can too go passed wind, as in farting and burping, which tin make you feel better after – but may not be appreciated much past those close by!

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14. Constipation

Been regular and all of a sudden gone on a poo-no-prove? "Constipation is a side result of the increase in progesterone in your body, which relaxes the bowel walls and can brand it harder to poo," explains midwife Ellie.

As with constipation when you lot're not pregnant, the solution is usually just eating more fibre, fruit and veg and keeping your water intake up.

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xv. Diarrhoea

Yeah, the pregnancy gods accept a sense of sense of humor! If you're not constipated, you might accept the runs instead. This tin happen at whatsoever indicate in pregnancy, but is one of the symptoms several of our forum mums singled out equally something they had in the first few weeks.

This time, though, we can't blame our friendly pregnancy hormone progesterone.

"It's actually more likely to be a side-result of picking up a breadbasket bug due to reduced amnesty during pregnancy," says midwife Ellie.

For HappyMrsS on our forum, sure foods caused the problem. "I worked out that in that location were sure foods that would cause it more than than others," she says. "Chinese food went straight through me and anything that was quite rich did the same. It stopped at effectually 10 weeks I call back."

Neenawneenaw agrees: "I had diarrhoea through the 1st trimester which really freaked me out, as usually I accept IBS with constipation. Only it was fine, and of course had no ill effect on the babe."

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16. Change in cervical mucus

Some of our forum mums find their cervical mucus changes – and they seem to take more mucus than usual.

In very early pregnancy, your mucus may seem to be thinnish and glace for longer than usual (its texture changes across your normal monthly cycle) and it will so thicken due to the increment in progesterone.

For forum mum Blue_Gecko, this thickened mucus was one of the clearest early signs she was significant. "The cervical mucus was creamy and quite heavy," she recalls. "Information technology felt quite moist down at that place."

Cervical mucus is usually a pale white/yellow colour but don't worry if y'all see a brownish discharge: this is also common. It's usually harmless, but if you're worried, have a chat with your GP.

17. Thrush

Thrush is some other pregnancy symptom that is afflicted by the increasing level of the hormone progesterone – and research reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology suggests that, during pregnancy, women are twice as likely to develop thrush than at any other stage in their life.

A sign of thrush can be increased or thicker cervical fungus – but this is also a sign of early pregnancy, so permission to be confused! Thrush does have other symptoms, too, though, including itchiness and soreness, and possibly a stinging awareness when you wee.

On our forum, CupcakeLadyJ is a sufferer. "I am only 4 weeks and I have got thrush," she says. "It feels uncomfortable more than than itchy – similar a niggle I tin can feel downwards below!"

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YOUR SLEEP

18. Tiredness

From feeling a scrap rundown to experiencing complete fatigue (here at MFM we call it 'pregxhaustion'), unusual tiredness can be a very early sign that you're pregnant.

"Farthermost tiredness often comes as a shock merely is a completely normal symptom of early pregnancy," says Dr Amin Gorgy. "During the 1st trimester, your body's hormone levels skyrocket and the rise in progesterone can really have a meaning bear on on how you experience. Feeling tired is a sign that y'all demand to slow down and rest up."

Forum mum-to-be Yummymummyalli found the exhaustion hits her most at the beginning of the day and when she's finished work. "I am wearied when I wake upwardly," she says, "but sort myself out by the time I get to work. Then by 7pm I'g tired once more. I've been going to bed 1 or ii hours earlier than usual."

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19. Sleeplessness

If information technology's not tiredness y'all're feeling, then possibly it's the opposite and you simply tin't get to slumber in the get-go identify. The cause? Yep, experts believe it'due south changes in our hormones (those hormones have a LOT to answer for).

For poor forum mum-to-be EvelynsMummy6390 insomnia has been really quite debilitating. "My first hint of existence pregnant was that I but couldn't slumber one nighttime," she says. "Correct now it's past 4am and I've been in bed since well-nigh 9pm as I was so tired. Slept an hour and PING! awake and tin't go comfy."

Meanwhile Lauri27 says she initially blamed her insomnia on anxiety and excitement at finding out she was meaning. "I am iv weeks and only just found out I was significant," she says. "I haven't been able to sleep for the last ii nights and thought I was just nervous. I didn't know this was a thing!"

twenty. Bright dreams

"Some simply-meaning women mention experiencing strange or unusually vivid dreams," says midwife Ellie Cockburn. "This is not then much a symptom of pregnancy equally information technology is of all the emotions and natural anxiety around condign a parent."

And every bit some of our forum mums share, the dreams really tin be unusual!

"I dreamt I bought my older daughter a baby caprine animal, as there is a piddling grey one at our local open farm that she admittedly adores. Only it was white and I was so worried that she wouldn't like it, I woke up crying!" says 3-little-princesses.

One of Critters-Mum-Claire-21 was especially brilliant: "I dreamt last nighttime I had a four ft 11in baby and the only affair I could get to fit him was a carmine velour one-piece!"

Find out what your pregnancy dreams might mean

YOUR Caput

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21. Headaches

"Headaches can certainly be an early on sign of pregnancy," says Dr Larisa Corda. Although more common during the latter role of your starting time trimester so into your 2d, she says headaches tin showtime earlier and are (yous guessed information technology!) due to the change in hormones in your trunk.

For forum mum RedBrown28, they were definitely at that place at the start. "I had headaches for about a month in early on pregnancy," she says. "It was a nightmare equally I normally never become headaches. Thankfully they did laissez passer and, by virtually fifteen to 16 weeks, they were nowhere to be seen."

"They were torture," agrees Happy-Mrs-South. "I phoned my midwife in tears. She told me that they are very mutual in early pregnancy and caused by all the hormones. She told me to make sure I drank equally much as I possibly could and, equally information technology was summer, I tried to get actress liquids from eating lots of melon and ice lollies, too."

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22. Feeling light-headed

Dizziness and feeling faint is more usually reported as a second and 3rd trimester symptom but it's definitely not unknown as an early on-pregnancy sign – and for forum mum Supersquish it was the clincher.

"I was queuing in Primark," she says, "and felt faint all of a sudden, and it suddenly striking me! I call up thinking, 'Oh my God!' and dropping my items and running to Boots for a test! I knew information technology was going to be positive."

And information technology was!

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YOUR MUSCLES & JOINTS

23. Backache

Back pain, specially in your lower back, is an early symptom pinpointed by several of our mums – even right at the beginning of pregnancy.

"I had lower backache virtually a week earlier my period was due," says forum mum-t0-exist xlittlemissx.

"It is caused by ligaments in the body becoming softer and stretching, which can put a lot of strain on the lower back," explains midwife Ellie.

"In addition," says Dr Larisa, "constipation, which is common in early on pregnancy because of the issue of pregnancy hormones on the gut, tin can likewise cause backache too."

Forum mumhoped-for nikkiandneil was suprised to get early backache. "'I'm simply 5 weeks!" she says. "I have been having backache every day for the last week and a one-half. It usually eases off if I motility well-nigh, though."

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24. Achy hips, legs and artillery

Yes, it'due south not just your back – your hips, legs and even arms may also ache at unlike times during early on pregnancy due to hormone changes.

"Yesterday I had a achey left leg and an achey right arm and I was like, 'Am I falling to pieces?' And then this morning I got a BFP [Large Fat Positive test]. At least I know why!" says Sparkling_DiamondButton.

"Yeah," says Dr Larisa. 'It's those pregnancy hormones loosening upwards your ligaments and joints to fix for accommodating your growing baby."

25. Leg cramps

Studies, such every bit this 2006 one in the Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, propose that between a third and a half of pregnant women experience leg cramps in pregnancy – although usually non until they're well into their 3rd trimester.

Early on cramping does happen only it'southward not often as severe every bit the cramping you may experience after on (there'southward something to look forward to!)

They are enough of theories as to why leg cramps happen in pregnancy – from vitamin deficiencies to electrolyte imbalances – but no one'south come up up with the definitive answer notwithstanding.

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YOUR MOUTH

26. Sour or metallic taste

Forum mum sealeyB says she had a "really metallic taste" in her oral fissure very soon after ovulation and "information technology didn't go for 2 weeks". And she'south definitely not alone in experiencing this early on pregnancy symptom.

"Experiencing foreign tastes, known as dysgeusia, is 1 of the lesser-known but actually quite common early pregnancy signs," says Dr. Amin Gorgy. And, one time once more, pregnancy hormones are the culprit.

The metallic taste symptom can vary in its intensity simply it's definitely sour. "It's as if I take sucked 2p pieces!" says forum mum-to-be Deli3.

Could in that location exist other reasons why you lot take a strange taste in your rima oris?

27. Food tasting 'incorrect'

Dysgeusia can touch y'all in early pregnancy is other ways – going off previously favourite foods and drinks because they don't gustation 'right' any more than.

"My commencement sympton was an aversion to Diet Coke which I usually beloved! Information technology just seemed to taste funny," says forum mumhoped-for Hushpuppy.

"I had a problem with coffee," recalled fellow forum mum bev6. "It tasted stronger, if not bitter, and I could non drink it. I likewise had a horrible moving picture in my oral cavity that I could not get rid of – it lasted for weeks"

28. Excess saliva

Another weird i – you may find yous have more saliva in your mouth or observe a flake of drooling when yous autumn asleep!

The medical term for this ane is 'ptyalism' and experts believe information technology happens because your body knows it is significant and the nerves that control salivation are more stimulated than usual.

29. Dry out oral fissure

And then again, you lot may get the reverse to excess saliva: a dry out mouth. And, along with that, you may observe yous're more thirsty than usual, which is normal but, very occasionally, can be a sign of gestational diabetes.

When mum ILOVECUPCAK3S discovered she was pregnant – very early on – dry out mouth was one of the many symptoms she experienced. "I had headaches, really spotty skin, depression, mild catamenia-like pain, restless sleep, dry oral cavity, hot flushes, tiredness, crying all the time, sore boobs and major bloatedness." Near a full firm in that location, ILOVECUPCAK3S!

30. Bleeding gums

Non a pretty symptom but, from fairly early on in pregnancy, when you brush your teeth, yous may find a bit of blood on your toothbrush or in the sink when you spit out.

This is all due to a combo of pregnancy hormones and more blood pumping effectually your body, making your gums swell.

But even if it's uncomfortable, it's best to castor your teeth more, not less according to the experts. "Many people retrieve they should end brushing if they accept bleeding gums but this isn't the example," says Janet Clarke from the British Dental Association. "Castor more and make an appointment to see your dentist about information technology,"

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YOUR NOSE

31. Increased sensitivity to smells

This is a large early on sign for lots of our forum mums. Tin can yous suddenly smell damp? Does your pet have a new whiff about them? And take you started thinking your partner could do with a adept wash and a splash of cologne?

Oh yes, your sense of smell may exist so heightened that yous tin can smell things that yous didn't even know had a odour, as MadForNO5 experienced: "Seven days subsequently ovulating, I started to get a strong sense of odor. I could odour absolutely everything!"

The downside? The slightest aroma can brand you feel queasy.

32. Stuffy or runny nose

"I have a runny nose and I'yard sneezing a lot. It started a calendar week before my catamenia was due and I'thousand 5 weeks at present," says forum mum-tone jumpingzebra.

But anouska-b has the opposite problem. "I've had a stuffy nose all the way through, starting right from the beginning. I've become one of those annoying people who breathe really loudly!"

Sounds contradictory until you realise that the main culprit here is your pregnancy levels of the hormone oestrogen, which tin can increase mucus production. Pass the tissues…

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33. Nosebleeds

It doesn't go more glamorous than this early sign: blood dripping from your nose. Information technology happens quite ordinarily in pregnancy, from early on till quite belatedly, because the blood vessels in your nose expand when you're meaning, putting more than pressure on the delicate vessels in your nasal passages.

"My nosebleeds started as presently as I got meaning (although I didn't know I was at the time) and I go them quite desperately," says forum mum kelsy1978. "My midwife suggested I bear a pocket-size bottle of Lucozade with me at all times and then that, after the nosebleed, it gives me a petty option me up. "

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YOUR DIGESTION & Ambition

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34. Not hungry

In those 1st few weeks of pregnancy, your ambition may exist affected. Many of our forum mumshoped-for plant they were of a sudden less hungry than before – either because they were feeling queasy or because their normal hunger merely wasn't there.

That's how it was for ClaireHair: "I'm off food," she said. "Non much ambition. I just have to eat what I fancy [when I do feel hungry]. Saturday nighttime, that was chips, curry sauce and deep-fried chilli beef from the Chinese!"

35. More hungry or more than thirsty

While some mums-to-be suddenly can't bear the idea of eating, others suddenly find they're so ravenous, eating is all they tin can remember about.

For forum mum MsDodger, her appetite went through the roof. "I eat a lot commonly but this it was a massive leap," she says. "I could not (and still cannot) stop snacking all mean solar day and eating large meals."

And this ravenous urge can apply to drinking as well, as eating, as bleurgh discovered. "Thirst! I wondered how much I could actually drink earlier drowning myself. Even my hubby said he nearly asked if I was drinking for two earlier I tested."

36. Not sure if hungry or ill

Oh dear, our appetite really can be a bit of a rollercoaster in early on pregnancy. Information technology can be a confusing time when you're non sure if you're feeling sick because you need to consume or yous're feeling sick because y'all've got morning sickness and eating will make information technology worse.

Forum mum-to-be katie4matthew sums it all up when she says, "I tin can't tell the difference betwixt feeling ill and hungry at the moment. I'grand then confused!"

37. Heartburn

Ouch. While heartburn is a very frequent mid to tardily-pregnancy symptom, we know from our forum posts that some mums-to-be feel it in the early weeks of pregnancy, as well.

Indeed, for MissTysonMayer, it was i of the very first signs that she was pregnant. "I felt different from what would of been around three weeks," she says. "Had a bad stomach and felt sick, heartburn, headaches. The lot. Then I tested the next calendar week when I was due and it was positive!"

And so what's going on? "In pregnancy, the sphincter at the top of your stomach relaxes, allowing tum acid to rise upwards into your oesophagus," explains family GP Dr Philippa Kaye.

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YOUR SKIN

38. Spots and acne

Remember those outbreaks that peppered your teens? Well, they could exist back now you're meaning. Given the hormonal changes in early on pregnancy, it's no surprise that i of the first signs can be an eruption of spots – as if we don't have plenty else to cope with!

"When I got pregnant, the offset symptoms were that I got petty bumpy spots on my forehead a few days before my menses was due," forum mum mama pinkish says.

"Yes, for many pregnant women, the hormone progesterone can cause a flare upward of the teenage acne that you idea you'd ditched years ago," explains GP and homeopath Dr Jeni Worden. "Essential as it is, progesterone is to arraign for many of pregnancy'due south less desirable furnishings."

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39. Hot flushes

Some of our forum mum-to-be say they have felt that rising heat creeping upward on your skin during early on pregnancy then it might just exist a sign that in that location is proficient news on the style.

It's well known, every bit the NHS Pregnancy & Baby Guide confirms, that hormonal changes and an increase in blood supply to the skin can mean your basal temperature (your normal resting body temperature) is higher than normal. And US researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have establish that hot flushes affect simply over a third of mums-to-be at some stage in their pregnancy.

For Tullah on our forum, hot flushes affected her from as early as 5 weeks' significant: "I'yard normally always common cold but accept been really hot particularly in bed," she says. "Yesterday I was walking virtually the shops and had to have a sit downwardly, I was so hot. My stomach seems to be very hot, as well!"

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YOUR EMOTIONS

forty. Oversensitivity, grumpiness, tearfulness

Can't lookout Bake Off without tearing up? Detect niggly things have become super niggly? Your emotions are heightened in the early days of pregnancy and the result tin can be sudden and surprising mood swings.

"Your torso is producing hormones at levels you've never experienced before and they're whizzing circular your organization like wildfire," says independent midwife Eleanor May-Johnson of Neighbourhood Midwives.

Which would explain why forum mum-to-be racheltidy is finding herself flying off the handle at anything and everything: "I am 5 weeks meaning. I'g usually a chilled-out person. However, the last few days I have turned into the devil! I just desire to shout at everyone!"

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41. Feeling different

Finally, sometimes there's not a specific 'thing' that'southward different, it's just y'all don't feel quite, well, the same. Pregnancy can work in mysterious ways, and sometimes you just have a gut feeling that you lot've conceived.

Apparently, there are no scientific studies to substantiate that 'feeling' pregnant could, in any way, mean you lot are pregnant just this, from ace10 on our forum, is not the only post we've seen like this:

"I am vi days past ovulation and today I only can non shake the feeling that I am pregnant. It's like something in me is telling me I am? Its very foreign."

And then, a week later, she comes back to add: "Well I guess my feeling was spot on because I got my Big Fat Positive [test consequence]. I tested today and the line came up pretty much straight abroad. We are then happy!"

And so maybe there'due south something in it…

Then, I've got some of these symptoms. Am I definitely pregnant?

Frustratingly, as we've already explained, many of the signs and symptoms of early pregnancy we've details in a higher place are the aforementioned as, or can be easily dislocated with, the signs and symptoms of PMS or the signs and symptoms that your period'southward on its way.

Some of the signs – nausea, breast tenderness, mood swings, and a frequent need to wee – are, anecdotally, more common signs of pregnancy than others. But you could be pregnant without experiencing any of them. And yous may not be significant even if you experience them all.

"We volition all experience the starting time signs of pregnancy in completely unlike ways," says Dr Amin Gorgy. "There is no specific way that you 'should' feel. Nosotros are all individuals."

As wise forum mum gazsgirl says, "Everyone is different and most symptoms are and then like catamenia ones, it'southward always difficult to know until y'all run into the line."

Time to take a test if you haven't already…

Nearly our fertility expert Dr Amin Gorgy

Dr Gorgy co-founded The Fertility & Gynaecology Academy in 2004 and is now its co-director. Previously, he was the deputy director of the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre. He is a young man of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2006) and a fellow member of the European Social club of Human being Reproduction and Embryology.

About our expert obstetrician Dr Larisa Corda

Dr Corda is an obstetrician and gynaecologist who specialises in IVF. After working in Sydney at IVF Australia (2012-13), s he returned to the UK and was awarded membership of the Majestic Higher of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She now works as a gynaecologist and IVF consultant and is also Fertility Skillful for ITV's This Morning testify.

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Source: https://www.madeformums.com/getting-pregnant/early-signs-and-pregnancy-symptoms/