Some women know from the moment of conception. Others know from some secret signal they or their husbands sense or become aware of. Still others don't have a clue until their tummies bulge and their periods finally stop! We are talking about the very first signs of pregnancy: those tiny clues your body sends that are an indication of things to come.
For some women, it's physical.
Shelley Divnich Haggert, a mother of three from Windsor, Canada, knew exactly when she became pregnant – at least after the first one.
"It's the oddest thing," says Divnich Haggert. "My feet get hot from almost day one. I can't stand having socks, blankets or anything else on them."
For others it's emotional.
"The biggest sign came Thanksgiving weekend," says Trina Lambert, a mother of three from Englewood, Colo. "I was working on my Christmas cards and was addressing and stamping the envelopes. I had out my inexpensive return address labels. When I looked up again, my dog had grabbed them and spread several torn labels around the floor. I burst into tears over this!"
It only took Lambert a minute to realize it wasn't that big of a deal, but she wondered why she reacted so strongly. When she missed her period the next week she took a pregnancy test and sure enough, she discovered she was about 4 weeks pregnant.
It's the Little Things
Dr. Randy Fink, an OB/GYN in private practice in Miami, Fla., says many women can appreciate and detect bodily changes even before they miss a period, though, obviously, a missed period for a sexually active woman is a good reason to do a pregnancy test.
"I think many women know they are pregnant before missing the period because most women have a very innate sense of their body and recognize when something has changed, especially as it relates to pregnancy," says Dr. Fink. "Early pregnancy is a time when the organs are developing, and the embryo can be most prone to damage from things a mother might do if she was unaware. Perhaps one of the reasons our species perpetuates is because moms have a subtle internal alarm that sounds when pregnancy occurs and causes her to alter her behavior."
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