Women can get pregnant anytime in her reproductive period, i.e about 15- 45 years practically, Now when to know that you are pregnant.
Symptoms- 1. Amenorrhoea- Absence of normal periods. This is the first symptom that will strike you that you are pregnant. Cyclic bleeding at times may occur up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, but its usually scanty.
2. Morning sickness- It occurs in 50% of cases, It is the second thing to appear, soon after the missed period. It varies, at times only nausea on rising from the bed to loss of appetite to vomiting, but its usually not too severe and rarely lasts beyond first 3 months.
3. Frequency of micturation- This is quite troublesome during first two months of pregnancy. This occurs as there is heavy uterus on the fundus of the urinary bladder, but this also disappear by 3rd month as uterus straightens up.
4. Breast discomfort- There is a feeling of fullness, breast becomes enlarged and even veins become visible in them, This becomes evident in 6-8 weeks. Nipples become more pigmented, Thick yellowish secretion comes out around 3 rd month.
These are the common symptoms you will experience and will take you to your family physician or Gynaecologist. Now the doctor will examine you after that, she'll take your pulse, blood pressure, weight, and do an abdominal examination to feel for the fetal parts. Then she'll send you for Urine Pregnancy Test, there is a kit for this test available at every medical store, there are colour bands in there, put two drops of urine in sample cavity, and see the result even at home. If there is a single line of control then you are not pregnant, if there are two bands of line then you are pregnant. This test is positive on the first day of missed period itself, and is accurate 99%. If the test is positive then you'll sent for ultrasonography for identification of structures, size, shape of the gestational sac. Doppler effect of ultrasound can pick up the fetal heart rate by second month and is the surest sign of pregnancy.
This is basically what is happening to you in your first three months and what your family physician will do to you. Happy Blogging.
Symptoms- 1. Amenorrhoea- Absence of normal periods. This is the first symptom that will strike you that you are pregnant. Cyclic bleeding at times may occur up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, but its usually scanty.
2. Morning sickness- It occurs in 50% of cases, It is the second thing to appear, soon after the missed period. It varies, at times only nausea on rising from the bed to loss of appetite to vomiting, but its usually not too severe and rarely lasts beyond first 3 months.
3. Frequency of micturation- This is quite troublesome during first two months of pregnancy. This occurs as there is heavy uterus on the fundus of the urinary bladder, but this also disappear by 3rd month as uterus straightens up.
4. Breast discomfort- There is a feeling of fullness, breast becomes enlarged and even veins become visible in them, This becomes evident in 6-8 weeks. Nipples become more pigmented, Thick yellowish secretion comes out around 3 rd month.
These are the common symptoms you will experience and will take you to your family physician or Gynaecologist. Now the doctor will examine you after that, she'll take your pulse, blood pressure, weight, and do an abdominal examination to feel for the fetal parts. Then she'll send you for Urine Pregnancy Test, there is a kit for this test available at every medical store, there are colour bands in there, put two drops of urine in sample cavity, and see the result even at home. If there is a single line of control then you are not pregnant, if there are two bands of line then you are pregnant. This test is positive on the first day of missed period itself, and is accurate 99%. If the test is positive then you'll sent for ultrasonography for identification of structures, size, shape of the gestational sac. Doppler effect of ultrasound can pick up the fetal heart rate by second month and is the surest sign of pregnancy.
This is basically what is happening to you in your first three months and what your family physician will do to you. Happy Blogging.
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