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Pregnancy

After conception, you may not have any symptoms of being pregnant until around the seventh week of pregnancy. These symptoms of pregnancy include being overly-tired, and morning sickness, or nausea at any time of the day. Of course the biggest pregnancy symptom of all is the change in your menstrual cycle. This may be in the form of your periods stopping all together (which is normally the case), or you may experience irregular menstruation cycles. This can include light spotting or skipping several days without any discharge at all before your period shows up again.

Pregnancy is brought about by sexual intercourse. This is the normal way for a woman to conceive a child. but we will also cover issues that can help people who can not conceive or find it hard, so IVF and other ways to help will be covered too. Pregnancy is something most of us plan for, we don't always expect to get pregnant, but we also sometimes find out we are pregnant when we least expected to be, so options for pregnancy will also be talked about here.

Pregnancy Test There are two ways that you can go about finding out for sure if you are pregnant or not. You can buy a pregnancy test from the local pharmacy or make an appointment to go to your family doctor. They may perform a urine analysis or take blood for a blood test and in certain instances, they may do both. All of these ways are accurate methods to determine whether or not you are pregnant. There is a certain hormone that is only present while a woman is pregnant. This is what the drug store test will be looking for. This hormone is what makes the lines change colors in the home pregnancy test. If the hormone is not present the stick will remain the same and you will know the answer within minutes.

Pregnancy Stages, Pregnancy is broke down into three different periods of time. The first trimester, the second trimester, and the third trimester. These trimesters last about 3 months each and can help a woman to understand the changes her body will be going through during each phase of the pregnancy.

The first trimester is the normal period of time an expectant mother has to tell the world that she is pregnant. Three months is a good period of time to wait before announcing the pregnancy. This gives you plenty of time to sort out your own feelings before sharing your news with everyone else. If you wait to inform others of your pregnancy until after your first trimester, they could probably guess it themselves, due to your growing belly.

The second trimester should bring less morning sickness. Morning sickness or nausea at any time of the day only lasts for about the first three months in over seventy percent of pregnancies. As your pregnancy moves into the fourth, fifth and sixth month, you are likely to feel more energized. Your baby will be growing inside of you and you will begin to feel the movements. Movements at first may feel like butterflies in your stomach. They soon turn into elbows in your ribs, and you will be able to tell that an elbow is exactly what it is.

The third trimester of pregnancy may make new expectant mothers a bit uneasy with the expectations of birth happening soon. Your belly button may pop out due to your growing belly. With all of the weight you will gain during the last trimester of your pregnancy, your back and legs may ache from carrying around the extra weight. However, you are mentally prepared for the birth of your new baby and probably even have a name ready.

A pregnancy calendar will be handy to track the changes your body has been through in this pregnancy week by week. From your first sign of pregnancy to the birth of your new baby, a timeline of events will be a great reminder of the time when your body went through pregnancy.