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Pregnancy symptoms: Top ten signs you might be pregnant
Approved by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board

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What's below:
• 10. Tender, swollen breasts

• 9. Fatigue

• 8. Implantation bleeding

• 7. Nausea or vomiting

• 6. Increased sensitivity to odors

• 5. Food aversions

• 4. Frequent urination

• 3. A missed period

• 2. Your basal body temperature stays high

• 1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test

• See also
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Most likely, you won't experience any pregnancy symptoms until about the time you've missed a period or a week or two later. If you're not keeping track of your menstrual cycle or if it varies widely from one month to the next, you may not be sure when to expect your period. But if you start to experience some of the symptoms below (not all women get them all) and you haven't had a period for a while, you may very well be pregnant. Take a home pregnancy test and find out for sure!

10. Tender, swollen breasts
One of the early hallmarks of pregnancy is extremely sensitive, sore breasts. As your body gears up for the months of pregnancy to come, you produce more of the hormones estrogen and progesterone, just as you do before each menstrual period. In fact, the tenderness you may be feeling now is probably an exaggerated version of how your breasts often feel just before your period. The tenderness will diminish significantly after the first trimester, once your rising hormone levels have stabilized and your body becomes accustomed to them.

9. Fatigue
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. Increased levels of the hormone progesterone and the extra effort your body requires to start making a baby can make you feel as if you've run a marathon when all you've done is put in a day at work. You should start to feel more energetic again once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue generally returns sometime around your seventh month.

8. Implantation bleeding
The fertilized egg begins to burrow into the lining of your uterus about 8 days after ovulation. As the embryo gets bigger and continues to implant itself, you might notice a slight staining of a pink or reddish brown color, at around 12 to 14 days after ovulation. Only a minority of women experience this implantation spotting. (If you have pain along with spotting or bleeding, call your practitioner immediately as this can be a sign of an ectopic pregnancy.)

7. Nausea or vomiting
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If you're like most women, morning sickness won't hit you until about a month after conception. (A lucky few escape it altogether.) But some women do start to feel queasy a bit earlier. And not just in the morning, either — pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting can be a problem morning, noon, or night. It tends to peak around eight to ten weeks, when your hormone levels are highest, and then will most likely taper off as you begin your second trimester.

6. Increased sensitivity to odors
It's not uncommon if you're newly pregnant to find that you're now overwhelmed by the smell of a bologna sandwich from several desks away and that certain aromas instantly trigger your gag reflex. This, too, may be a side effect of rapidly increasing estrogen in your system.

5. Food aversions
While some women insist they crave certain foods during pregnancy, food aversions are even more common. You may suddenly find certain foods you used to enjoy are now completely repulsive to you. This problem may come and go or last throughout your pregnancy.

4. Frequent urination
Shortly after you become pregnant, you may find yourself hurrying to the bathroom at an alarming rate. Why? It's most likely due to the fact that during your pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases and your kidneys work harder to quickly get rid of waste products. This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester and remain or even get worse throughout your pregnancy.

3. A missed period
If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you probably took a pregnancy test long before you would have noticed any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may give it away before you realize you didn't get your period.

2. Your basal body temperature stays high
If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed above the coverline for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant.
And finally...

1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test
It's best to wait until at least the first day of a missed period before you take a pregnancy test. (If it's negative, try the test again in a few days.) Once you've gotten a positive result, make an appointment with your practitioner and head on over to our pregnancy area. Also, don't forget to update your profile and sign up for our 'My Baby This Week' newsletter. Congratulations!

The eating a lot and the break outs are not on the list. Maybe it might be stress or the weather. Hope the result is what you want it to be.

I saw to clear everything just take a test and put your anxieties at ease.

I have an 'idea' of who this may be

I can't wait *rubs hands together* I am eagerly awaiting your response, i am excited for you.

Me too jen, i am excited if she is.

If you are eating alot, I'd say you are probably NOT preggo. Typically, the early weeks are soooo hard to eat - even if you don't have morning sickness - b/c of the sensitivity to smells and food aversions.
But, good luck anyway!

hm....if my detective skills are correct........

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE POST UNDER ANOTHER NAME!

IT'S SO EXCITING!!!!!

i don't care WHO the hell you are! Its still exciting!

buy a test, take a test and find out.
My appetite did not 'pick-up' until month 4.5, then I found myself hungier than normal.