Pregnancy Symptoms - What to Look For

Pregnancy Symptoms If you are trying to conceive a baby, you have a pretty good idea of the kind of symptoms you are hoping for each month. You eagerly count your cycle days by marking them on your planner, and you are sensitive to every twinge that your body experiences, eagerly awaiting the signs that a baby is on the way. If you are not planning for a baby however, the early symptoms may escape your notice.

Expectancy affects each woman in different ways and some are more affected by early symptoms than others. A missed period is usually the first sign that something is going on, but there are other pregnancy symptoms that often occur prior to that period but are not connected to expecting unless you know it's a possibility.

For example, morning sickness doesn't just start to happen from the day you first get a positive pregnancy result on a test kit. It is one of the most common of symptoms and it can happen more or less from the date of conception. At the time however, most women will dismiss this as a stomach bug. The morning sickness at this stage is usually light and not regular so it's easy to dismiss it as something else. The connection between the sickness and perhaps an aversion to a particular smell is also easy to miss.

Heartburn is something that women can put down to having eaten their meal too fast, or too late, or it was too spicy. There are many reasons for having heartburn, and before a period is missed or late, expecting is not one that springs immediately to mind.

Feeling tired or irritable is usually dismissed as stress. In today's world there are very few people who live a completely stress-free life. Whether it is something that happens at work, or a family situation, or worries about finances, or even watching the evening news, stress invades our lives. Stress has an affect of making people more easily exhausted, and less likely to act in a rational manner. As does pregnancy!

Early symptoms are often lost in the hustle of everyday life. The brain is quick to interpret any symptoms that do occur in those early days prior to a positive test as being anything other than expecting - but within a relatively short time, they are reclassified as what they really are, the early announcement that a baby is on its way.

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