Symptoms of Pregnancy, Ten important symptoms of pregnancy
Pregnancy is the period of commencing from the date of conception, till the birth of the baby or abortions rarely. Every mother will experience some important symptoms of pregnancy during their pregnant period.
Symptoms of pregnancy, ten symptoms of pregnancy
Missed period: The women will experience missed period if she is pregnant. As soon as the egg in the mother’s womb gets conceived, there will be no regular menstruation and missed period is noticed. Nearly 99% of the missed periods are the symptoms of pregnancy. Missed period is considered as the important symptom of pregnancy when the mother will not have menstruation, even capable of giving birth to the baby i.e. fertilizing age and no systemic illness is reported.
Increased urinary frequency: Frequent urination is the symptom of pregnancy and is experienced by most of the pregnant mothers. The cause of frequent urination in pregnant mother is the secretion of the hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin hormone. (HCG). It is also believed that the compression of urinary bladder with the enlargement or uterine causes frequent urination during pregnancy.
Implantation bleeding: Implantation bleeding occurs at the time the fertilized egg attaches to the endometrial layer of the mother. This process starts after 8 days of ovulation and this causes slight pink colored staining. Cramping is also seen in some pregnant mothers. So implantation bleeding or cramping is also the important symptom of pregnancy.
Fatigue and tiredness: Tiredness and fatigue are the early symptoms of pregnancy. The increased hormone level such as increased progesterone level creates the feel of tiredness and fatigue in pregnant mother. Increased need of energy by the body and poor supplementation of nutrients leads to nutritional deficiency and causes fatigue and tiredness. Every mother will experience pregnancy fatigue as a symptom of pregnancy. Even non pregnant lady also can experience fatigue and tiredness.
Mammary Gland enlargement: Increased mammary gland size is the visible sign of the pregnancy. The areola becomes black in color and slight bulging is seen because of the hormonal changes during pregnancy. Tenderness or slight pain experienced by touching the tip of the mammary gland of pregnant mother.
Nausea or Morning sickness: As soon as the mother conceive, will experience feeling of vomiting or nausea in the early days of pregnancy. The physiological hormonal change is the main cause of morning sickness during pregnancy. The feeling of vomiting in the early morning is called as morning sickness. As gestational age improves, morning sickness passes away.
Food cravings : Pregnant mother feels to eat some particular things during the antenatal period. The Food cravings during pregnancy is not considered as the exact symptom of pregnancy, but some pregnant mother’s likes to eat some particular things during their antenatal period. Some ladies like to eat non nutritional things also. These symptoms are also considered as the symptoms of pregnancy.
Possitive Pregnancy test : Pregnancy test can be done in the home itself. Just by adding two drops of urine to the chemically prepared strip confirms whether the lady is pregnant or not. The positive result in the test confirms pregnancy.This is the strong symptom among the symptoms of pregnancy in the pregnant mother.
Taste alteration: Most of the pregnant mothers experiences loss of taste sensation during pregnancy. Change in the salivary glands and the hormone level causes this taste alteration. Some women experiences metallic taste during antenatal period.
Skin changes : Some womens will have skin changes during pregnancy. Reddish color or pinkish colored lines on the stomach are observed in late pregnancy. These skin changes on the pregnant skin are due to stretching of abdominal muscles, as the baby develops and uterine enlarges the abdominal skin changes are common. Applying vitamin E containing lotions or alpha hydroxy acids helps in reducing skin changes during pregnancy.
These are the important ten symptoms of pregnancy. The pregnancy symptoms helps pregnant mother to know about normal physiological conditions and if the mother have these symptoms, the mother need not worry.
This article “Symptoms of pregnancy and ten important symptoms of pregnancy” is written by Dr srinivasa, the medical graduate and well experienced blogger.