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It’s not just missing your period that’s going to tell you something’s up! Read what Dr. Hadley has to say about very early signs of pregnancy! You’d be surprised at how much may go unnoticed long before you realize you’ve missed your period!

Every woman is different, and so is every experience of pregnancy! So, depending on the woman’s sensitivity she might not even notice these symptoms. Or, they may not even occur. As I’ve said every experience is different!
However, it’s common that the symptoms are there, but they just correspond with the premenstrual symptoms so well, that they’re misinterpreted to be just that. If you get well informed and get to know what the earliest symptoms are, you might be able to catch your pregnancy very early on!
These are the early signs of being pregnant:

1. Changes to Your Breasts

Breast tenderness, the increase in your breast size and even a darker pigmentation in your areolas can all be pointers to your new pregnancy. These are the classic early sings of pregnancy and almost every woman will experience them! However, if being pregnant is the last thing on your mind, they can be passed off to simply having an uncomfortable bra on.

2. Nausea

Morning sickness (that doesn’t necessarily come in the mornings exclusively), vomiting and nausea are also quite common when it comes to early signs of pregnancy. It’s usual for any kind of nausea or heartburn to appear about a month and a half into the pregnancy, but it can happen earlier – way earlier. Again, this is very easy to contribute to a virus that you might have caught, rather than being with a child.

3. Elevated Body Temperature

An ever so subtle change in your basal body temperature (half to one degrees Fahrenheit) can happen six to 12 day after your ovulation – which is two to three weeks before you’d miss your first period.

4. Exhaustion

Feeling fatigue can often be confused with simply feeling tired, but they are not the same things. Tiredness is normal for anyone, and feeling tired after a long day at work, or after being sleep deprived, is one thing – feeling fatigue is quite another. For one, it cannot be fixed by simply sleeping and resting. So, feeling like this is usually a symptom of some other condition – like pregnancy. And this too is quite logical seeing as how being pregnant does put a considerable strain to most bodily functions. It’s no wonder you feel exhausted!

5. Constipation

Again, this is one of the symptoms that usually isn’t mentioned in connection to pregnancy, so it is often overlooked. Constipation is defined as less than three bowel movements per week – which is something you’d take notice of. So, if you’re having some of the other symptoms plus this one don’t look the other way – it can also be one of the very early indicators you are, in fact, pregnant.

6. Frequent Urination

For most women these kinds of problems won’t occur for as long as two months into the pregnancy but as I’ve already said – there is no strict timetable, everyone’s different. So, it can happen that you start having to go to the bathroom a bit too often. This can be a sign of pregnancy, but also a symptom of a UTI, so, like most early symptoms it’s usually ignored.

7. Back Pain and Headaches

These are very common early symptoms that are almost always attributed to other things like eye strain, impending menstruation, other health related issues etc.

8. Cravings for Certain Foods

Food cravings or even food aversions may happen very early on. And, can last throughout the entire pregnancy.

9. Mood Swings

Obviously related to all the hormonal changes you’re about to go through, mood swings can also happen very early on. So early, you might confuse them with your regular PMS crankiness.