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What are very early pregnancy signs and symptoms?

by — Last updated: 2017-08-18 in Women's Health
Reviewed by Medical Team — 2017-08-11

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The progesterone test is a common doctor’s choice as a diagnostic method. Progesterone level test measures the amount of the hormone progesterone in a blood sample.

Some women can detect the moment when they experience ovulation, although many women cannot tell exactly. Some women can also recognize when their fertile period of the month has ended. Similarly, some can detect the moment they have become pregnant. For others, one of the standard medical tests is the only reliable way to discern the very early pregnancy signs and symptoms. [7] 

For the vast majority of women, the earliest of the very first signs of pregnancy are those the most commonly found:

A missed period is known as the most prominent of the very early pregnancy signs and symptoms. However, it is a well-known fact that many women miss periods for different health reasons and conditions, such as illness, stress, adverse reaction to food and substances, and, on the other hand, that some women have a bleeding that imitates a period even during pregnancy. 

Morning sickness is another obvious sign among early pregnancy symptoms. However, sickness, if not related to pregnancy, can also have other causes.

Sore and enlarged breasts are a symptom because early pregnancy begins a series of changes in the woman’s normal hormonal levels. However, the woman’s body is not prepared for these changes when they first occur, so that several reactions can happen in her body as a consequence of the new hormone levels. The most obvious of those is the change in shape of, and feelings of soreness in, the breasts. 

Frequent trips to the bathroom are symptom many women experience in early pregnancy. Many women begin urinating at an increased frequency even before they have a missed period. The reason for this is a change in hormone levels produced by the implantation of the embryo. Specifically, the hormone called human Chorionic gonadotropin has the side effect of causing frequent urination.

Fatigue is another of the first signs of pregnancy, which is sometimes hard to distinguish from other, more regularly felt kinds of exhaustion. Some health professionals attribute this fatigue to the change in hormones in the woman’s body, which mostly disappears as the body adjusts to the changes.