It usually lasts one to three days, and it occurs one week before your period or around the time of your normal period. Because of this, many women think they're simply experiencing early or light menstruation. How can you tell the difference? Unlike red menstrual bleeding, implantation bleeding is usually light pink or brown. The flow should be light, and it doesn't get heavier like a normal period. Can you feel implantation? Although the answer is no, Dr. Hou says some women experience minor cramps around when the fertilized egg implants itself into the uterus —"but we are not clear if that's related to implantation," she says.
Cramping often happens near the same time as implantation bleeding and feels similar to menstrual cramps. They typically come and go in your lower abdomen or lower back. According to Dr. Chloe Acevedo, an OB-GYN at Atlantic Medical Group Women's Health in Westfield, New Jersey, other implantation symptoms include nausea, sore boobs, darkening of the areolas, fatigue, headaches, bloating, mood swings , metallic taste, and changes in appetite—although these symptoms are more closely associated with early pregnancy.
What's more, "implantation symptoms can sometimes be confused with PMS symptoms, which can be vague and nonspecific," says Dr. Sore Boobs: The pregnancy hormone hCG, estrogen, and progesterone may make your boobs very sensitive to the touch.
This happens weeks after conception, and it'll feel more pronounced than normal PMS soreness. Nausea: Since your digestive system slows down after getting pregnant, some women experience nausea, constipation, and indigestion although full-fledged morning sickness is still a few weeks away. Progesterone and hCG hormones also contribute to these conception symptoms—and so does the heightened sense of smell that many pregnant women experience.
Darkening of the Areolas: Pregnancy hormones affect nipple cells called melanocytes and cause them to darken. If your body is under a lot of stress or you have a hormonal imbalance, you could be experiencing an irregular menstrual cycle.
Every person — and every pregnancy — is different. And, they may show up earlier or later than expected. Here are more than a dozen possible symptoms of early pregnancy.
Many women are surprised to learn that spotting or light bleeding can be an early sign of pregnancy, but about one-third of women experience it.
This is often called implantation bleeding because doctors believe it occurs as the fertilized egg attaches or implants itself into the uterine lining. Implantation bleeding typically occurs 10 to 14 days after conception, which is just before or right around the time your period is due.
But implantation bleeding is a light flow, which may start and stop over a couple days. Your period, on the other hand, may start off light in flow and in color but after a couple days becomes heavier, changes to a crimson red color and lasts up to a week or so.
While cramps and lower-abdominal pain can signal a coming period, they can also be a sign of egg implantation. Implantation cramps can occur with or without spotting or bleeding, and may feel different from period cramps. For example, you might feel mild to moderate prickling, pulling or tingling that comes and goes over a few days.
But menstrual cramps can often feel like a throbbing or dull ache, and typically start a day or two before your period. Of course, you could be running hot for other reasons, but if it lasts more than a few weeks, pregnancy may be the explanation. This change in hormones can contribute to many symptoms, including breast tenderness. Oftentimes, increased breast tenderness, swelling or tingling start to become noticeable a few days before a missed period.
You may also experience nipple soreness. In fact, fatigue may set in as soon as one week after conception. This is thanks to those sudden changes in hormone levels, particularly increasing progesterone. Certainly, your drinking habits play a big role in how many times you pee in a day. However, pregnancy increases the amount of blood in your body, which gives your kidneys more fluid to filter and more waste to get rid of. For many women, heartburn is a frustrating symptom that can appear sometime around month 2 of pregnancy.
That telltale, queasy feeling known as morning sickness can hit you at any time of day — and it typically begins when you're about 6 weeks pregnant, though it can vary and strike even earlier. For most women, nausea starts by week 9.
Hormones, mainly increased levels of progesterone though estrogen and hCG can also take some credit , can cause the stomach to empty more slowly, resulting in this early pregnancy symptom resembling seasickness. Your extra-sensitive nose may be responsible for another early sign of pregnancy: food aversions , where the thought, sight or smell of certain foods you normally like can turn your stomach or worse, contribute to your morning sickness.
This early pregnancy symptom can be triggered by anything from chicken a common one to something seemingly more benign, like salad. Though this isn't usually one of the very first signs of pregnancy, it does tend to pop up in the first trimester. Blame those pregnancy hormones again, especially early on when your body is flooded with them and still getting used to all the hormonal changes.
Don't worry: This early pregnancy symptom often passes by the second trimester, when things have settled down in there. Also called ptyalism gravidarum, some moms-to-be experience saliva build-up early in pregnancy. Most early pregnancy symptoms before your period are strikingly similar to the side effects of PMS. Otherwise, the only way to know if other early pregnancy symptoms nausea, tender breasts, fatigue, bloating, sensitivity to smell, etc.
Although you may start to feel early pregnancy symptoms before your period, most women have to wait for an average of two weeks from the time they ovulate for a positive home pregnancy test result.
Home pregnancy tests measure levels of human chorionic gonadotropin hCG in your urine. This placenta-produced hormone makes its way into your urine almost immediately after an embryo begins implanting in your uterus, between six to 12 days after fertilization.
Some HPTs promise 60 to 75 percent accuracy four to five days before you expect your period. Wait until your period and the rate jumps to 90 percent; wait another week and the results are 99 percent accurate. Know that false negatives are much more common than false positives, so if the time for your period comes and goes without your monthly flow, check in with your health care provider.
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