Thursday, April 2, 2015

Family Health : How to Determine Pregnancy

I'm here to talk to you a little bit about the signs and symptoms of early pregnancy and how you can tell. The hallmark of pregnancy is a missed menstrual period.  If you have had unprotected sex in the last few weeks and you miss your period, then there's a good possibility that you could be pregnant. There are of course other reasons why you might miss your period and occasionally people are pregnant and still have a period. So, that is not the only way to tell.  Some other symptoms might be some breast tenderness. You may feel that your breasts are a little bit bigger. You also may notice that you have some abdominal bloating.  And, you might have early morning nausea. 

Those would be some other symptoms, common symptoms of pregnancy.  If you are wanting to test that further before you see your physician, you can do something like go to the drug store and get a one step pregnancy test. They've gotten very easy to use. What you do, is you just get out the pregnancy strip.  Take it out of the wrapper and it looks like this. What you do then, follow the directions. Read the directions carefully and you're going to take this into the restroom. Make sure that you've got some urine in your bladder and then urinate on right onto this strip.



You lay the strip flat. Again, you follow the directions for the package that you buy and you wait the prescribed amount of time. And, if you get a little plus on the middle here then that means that you're likely pregnant. And, if you get a minus sign then that means that you're probably not pregnant.  If you are pregnant, you want to make sure that you make an appointment with your OBG-YN and get early prenatal care. The other thing that you want to do if you might be pregnant or you might be becoming pregnant, is to take a multivitamin with folic acid in it.  Folic acid prevents birth defects and it's just a good recommendation for any woman who might be pregnant. You also want to avoid caffeine, alcohol and nicotine if you're planning pregnancy or find out that you are indeed pregnant. 

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