Signs of Pregnancy

The most typical signs of pregnancy may be most important for diagnosis are divided into three groups: questionable, probable and credible. ALLEGED (doubtful) SIGNS OF PREGNANCYThese characteristics include various kinds of subjective experiences:

Nausea, vomiting, especially in the mornings. These symptoms usually appear 2-8 weeks after fertilization. But they can also cause: food poisoning, infection and many other diseases.

During pregnancy a woman is a perversion of appetite. She may refuse to eat chicken Kiev, julienne of chicken with mushrooms and fried potatoes. While clearly a weakness for spicy dishes of Korean cuisine, pickles, as well as clay and chalk.

Change the olfactory senses. Women are some unpleasant odors. For example, she may throw in a slop bucket favorite perfume bottle and a hundred times a day to open the window to completely erode the smell of tobacco smoke.

Dysfunction of the nervous system. Have discomfort, sleepiness, irritability, mood instability, dizziness. Woman becomes somewhat inadequate: it fun laughs, then gets irritated by little things or crying. She always wants to sleep.

The woman has dark spots appear on the face, darker nipples, areola (areola) and the line on the abdomen from the navel to groin. But it could happen due to lack of hormonal balance, or be the result of a previous pregnancy.

There is frequent urination. Usually it is observed from 6 to 8 weeks after fertilization. This phenomenon can also be caused by inflammation of the urinary tract, diuretic, diabetes.

There is an increase volume of the stomach.

There is a feeling of breast engorgement.

PROBABLE SIGNS OF PREGNANCY

This group includes objective criteria defined in the genitals, breasts, and positive immunological tests for pregnancy.

Cessation of menstruation (amenorrhea) in women of reproductive age. The absence of menstruation is noted during pregnancy from its beginning to its completion. However, there are many other reasons for the absence of menstruation: a long journey, fatigue, panic and fear of pregnancy, hormonal disorders or serious illness, extreme fullness or thinness, and breastfeeding.

Breast enlargement, their intensity, the appearance of colostrum from opening on the nipple breast stroke with pressure on the mammary gland (pregnant for the first).

Cyanosis (cyanosis) of the mucous membrane of vagina and cervix.

Change the size, shape and consistency of the uterus. Another reason for this phenomenon is the occurrence of fibroids.

Probable signs of pregnancy reveals the following:

by examination of the breast and squeezing colostrum;

when viewed from the external genitalia and the mucous membrane of the vagina;

in the study with the help of mirrors;

by vaginal and two-hand research.

Reliable sign of pregnancy

Reliable, or unmistakable signs of pregnancy - these are signs that appear in the second half of pregnancy and evidence of the presence of the fetus in the uterus.

The examination can determine the part of the fetus. In the second half of pregnancy is determined by the head, back and small parts (limbs) of the fetus. The longer the pregnancy, the better to feel your part of the fetus.

Different fetal heartbeat, listen to heart tones. This may be determined by obstetric stethoscope or by echocardiography. When the survey of fetal heart rate are determined in a fairly early - within 48 days after the first day of last menstrual period.

For reliable signs of pregnancy include fetal movement experienced by the physician survey. Fetal movements are usually defined in the second half of pregnancy. Pregnant women themselves feel fetal movement - primipara with 20 weeks, and multiparous 18-week, but these symptoms to reliable signs of pregnancy are not relevant, since they may be erroneous - a woman can take for the movement of fetal intestinal peristalsis.

By ultrasound in utero fertilized egg revealed. Ultrasound can detect pregnancy by about 5 - to 6-day delay period. When viewed from a special sensor that is inserted into the vagina, this can be done for 1-3 days before. In addition, ultrasound not only establishes the fact of pregnancy, but also allows us to define her life, helps to distinguish uterine pregnancy from an ectopic and identify many types of pathology.

The first three features listed above are manifested only by 5-6-month pregnancy, the latter is now determined by 2-3-week delay period.

Despite the fact that the court of XXI century, the causes of pregnancy are the same as in the Stone Age. To a woman becomes pregnant, it is necessary that there was a process of fertilization: the egg is fused with sperm. Remember that in itself delay menstruation - not a sign of pregnancy. Sometimes, after a week after a delay, they still occur. However, if your period has not come on time, right on the next morning you can start measuring the temperature of the morning. The thermometer must be entered into the rectum to a depth of 2 cm for 5-7 minutes. If the temperature for several days over 37 ° C, most often it is evidence in favor of a possible pregnancy.

Fortunately, humanity is on the level of development, when a woman has a right to know whether she was pregnant, before it becomes noticeable look.