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Tagged As: Early Pregnancy Symptoms

Question:
Can someone please tell me ALL of the early pregnancy symptoms? What signs do you see (besides temp dip and spotting) around implantation time? I havent been feeling well and not sure if Im sick or if its pregnancy.

Answer:
All pg symptoms in the first week or two after conception are just like premenstrual symptoms. Since you don't ordinarily ovulate, I suppose these are not totally familiar to you. Cramping, bloating, headaches, nausea, pulls and twinges around the uterus, irritability, sore breasts, fatigue, indigestion/heartburn and more. It all depends on the individual. All of these can also be signs of an early pregnancy . . . it basically is impossible to tell, though. Some people say that sore breasts are a giveaway, but then there are people like me who always have sore breasts each cycle, and then there are others who get pregnant and never feel soreness in the breasts. With my last two pregnancies, the only thing different I noticed was an irritability that went beyond the ordinary PMS irritability--and that is so subjective an observation as to be almost useless. At 12 dpo you are officially a bit early to test with morning's first urine and an HPT, but unofficially, with a sensitive test, you might find out that this cycle worked. I have found out at 12 dpo more than once. I only had sore breasts early on and never really got many symptoms after that. I think I got nausea around week 6 or 7. Oh, and I never had implantation bleeding.