A reliable sign of pregnancy is only the presence of a fetal egg in the uterus or a live fetus with a heartbeat, which was found on ultrasound. Fruit egg on ultrasound can be seen already from 2-3 weeks of pregnancy. At this time, it is a round-shaped dark formation inside the uterus with a diameter of 5-8 mm. The embryo with palpitations is sometimes seen from 6 weeks of pregnancy, it is almost always seen from 7 weeks, and if after 9 weeks there is no embryo with a heartbeat, then a woman should be monitored for 10 days so as not to miss a frozen pregnancy. But there are many doubtful signs, they include objective and indirect signs. They can manifest soon after conception and later. All of them only indicate the possibility of pregnancy, but can not reliably confirm it.
How to determine the first signs of pregnancy?
The objective signs of pregnancy are those that a doctor can observe, and not just the woman herself. Indirect - these are the symptoms that the pregnant woman tells about, but you can not confirm them with anything.
The objective signs of pregnancy include:
- Enlargement of the uterus in size with a growing fetus, a change in its shape (heterogeneity of the uterus, softening of the cervix). The symptom is objective, as it can be confirmed by the doctor at the examination, but not authentic - the uterus can increase and with various diseases (fibroids, uterine tumors and others), this cause is also caused by the heterogeneity of the uterus.
- The increase in mammary glands , their tension during palpation, the allocation of colostrum from the nipples with pressure (caused by an increase in progesterone, estradiol - also an unreliable sign, as this is possible with various types of mastopathy).
- Change in the color of the mucous membrane of the vagina and cervix, cyanotic (cyanotic) shade of the mucosa due to increased blood flow to the uterus.
- The absence of menstruation in women of childbearing (reproductive) age is one of the first signs that allows one to suspect pregnancy, but also one of the most unreliable, since the delay in menstruation can be caused by a number of other causes (hormonal disorders, inflammatory processes and ovarian cysts, etc.).
- Darkening of the areola of the nipple (the pigmented area around the nipple) - when pregnancy changes its color, also the pigmentation increases along the white line of the abdomen.
- The wiggling of the fetus , which is felt not by a woman, but by a doctor.
Indirect signs of pregnancy are those that the woman herself notices. They are different for each woman, and in some cases there are no indirect signs at all, because they are not particularly paid attention in the diagnosis of pregnancy. It:
- fatigue;
- frequent changes of mood;
- irritability;
- dizziness and headaches;
- lack of appetite or change in taste;
- increase in body weight;
- nausea and vomiting in the morning;
- change in the sense of smell (for example, intolerance to some smells);
- bloating;
- frequent urination;
- light viscous discharge from the genital tract of a woman and so on.
But on one of the indirect grounds it is difficult to understand what is before us: PMS or the first
The laboratory signs of pregnancy include various pregnancy tests. These tests can be purchased at any pharmacy. The method is based on determining the increase in urine levels of chorionic gonadotropin. By the level of the hormone in the blood, one can draw conclusions about the presence of pregnancy and the correspondence of its amount to the term of pregnancy.
The first signs of pregnancy after ovulation?
The first signs of pregnancy immediately after conception are maintaining a high basal temperature for 3 days longer than usual in the second phase of the cycle (longer than 18 days after ovulation). But in the early days to recognize the signs of pregnancy without a test is very difficult.