The beautiful word I AM PREGNANT comes with beautiful emotions and responsibility. The most beautiful phases of family life are when a lady in the family is pregnant and a little bundle of joy becomes a part of it.
Once a lady discovers that she is pregnant, she is overwhelmed with different emotions and various advice of dos and don'ts during pregnancy. After all these confusions and overwhelming experiences of nine months, what is important is the healthy baby and mother.
First pregnancy or second pregnancy, planned or surprise, pregnancy comes with too many ups and downs in your life. To streamline your pregnancy you should always consider booking an appointment with the best gynecology doctor in Bhubaneswar.
You can also consider online doctor consultation with a gynecologist in an emergency and discuss various symptoms of pregnancy.
What are the common symptoms of pregnancy?
There are various pregnancy test kits available in the market that enable you to confirm the good news. But before that also you can probably be sure to make out about your pregnancy. Your body shows certain signs and symptoms that indicate your pregnancy. Following are some common and not so common early signs and symptoms of pregnancy.
Most Common signs of pregnancy
Many patients commonly experience these early symptoms of pregnancy. You should directly book an appointment with the best gynecologist doctor or contact an online consultant to confirm pregnancy and schedule your first prenatal visit. The earlier you will visit gynecologists, the best prenatal care you will get.
- Missed periods
It is one of the classic symptoms of pregnancy. You might be aware of the same. If you are a daily soap or a cinema watcher, you might have seen the lady in the lead character dramatically announce her pregnancy by saying that her periods are late. So if your period cycle is regular and if you have missed periods immediately contact a doctor or take a home pregnancy test you might be expecting.
- Tiredness
Over-tiring fatigue is another common sign of pregnancy. Because of an increase in levels of progesterone hormones during pregnancy, you may feel tired for no reason during pregnancy. This early sign is generally seen in women during their first stage or first trimester of pregnancy. You may feel sleepy all day or feel lazy or feel like doing nothing all day. Ladies! It is all okay to feel so. It will normalize along with the time.
- Swollen and tender breasts
Breast changes are one of the most common symptoms of pregnancy. Your breast may feel sore, or tender. Your nipples might be tingly or over-sensitive, making you more uncomfortable. Two hormones, mainly progesterone and estrogen, are the reasons behind changes in breasts during early pregnancy. Also, your body is getting ready for breastfeeding. You are likely to see other changes like growing breasts, visible veins, and pigment changes, leaking colostrums, etc.
- Increased frequency of urination
When you are pregnant, your blood volume increases, it increases work for your kidneys to produce more fluids. And we all know that when kidneys produce more fluids, we need to urinate more often.
- Nausea with or without vomiting
Most women experience nausea, commonly called morning sickness during pregnancy. It happens in the first trimester of pregnancy. For some ladies, morning sickness is mild, while for some it is severe and remains the whole pregnancy; it differs from person to person.
Less common signs of pregnancy
If you are considering talking about symptoms of pregnancy with the online consultant, these are the less common signs of pregnancy you should not avoid talking about:
- Light spotting
Missed periods are one of the classic symptoms of pregnancy. But some ladies have light spotting during early pregnancy, which is common. You should not mistake this light spot as a light period. This light bleeding occurs around 6 to 12 days after conception. If the bleeding is more and dark, you should immediately contact a gynecology doctor. The reason for bleeding is the fertilized egg implants in the womb itself. Gynecologists also call it implantation bleeding.
- Mood swings
All thanks to changes in hormones, mood swings are a part of pregnancy. You might feel too happy or too weepy for the same thing during pregnancy. Some women become emotionally sensitive during pregnancy. Hence, to control mood swings during pregnancy, gynecology consultants may advise you to start meditation and light yoga.
- Bloating
Many of the pregnancy symptoms are the same as that of periods. Hence, you might mistake bloating as a symptom of the premenstrual cycle because of the shift in hormones.
- Cramps
Your early pregnancy symptoms may be the same as your menstrual cycle. You may have minor uterine pains during pregnancy because of implantation, constipation, or gas ligaments stretching to make room for your baby. You may also experience minor back pain during the initial stage of pregnancy.
- Sensitivity towards certain smells
The hormones change may lead to changes in your senses of taste and sense. As a result, you will become more sensitive to certain smells and tastes. You may love certain tastes that you never liked before or you may puke even at the sight of your favorite food.
- Nasal congestions,
Another less common symptom of pregnancy is nasal congestion or a stuffy nose. You may sometimes experience sinus-type headaches. Many pregnant ladies may fear that it may affect the fetus. But the fact that the child remains unaffected with it.
When to see a doctor during pregnancy?
It is always wise to streamline your prenatal days by visiting the best gynecologist doctor in a timely. It will help the doctor as well as you to remain updated about you and your baby’s health.
Hence, once you discover that you are pregnant, schedule your appointment with the gynecology doctor. On your first prenatal visit, the gynecologist/ obstetrician will:
- take down your gynecological history like your due date and everything about your menstrual cycle
- determine any potential hereditary, health-related, or age-related pregnancy risk factors
- want to know about your family's health history
- make the best schedule of prenatal care
How often should you visit the gynecology doctor?
On your first prenatal visit, your gynecologist will schedule your prenatal visits. Your prenatal visit routine generally will be:
- The first trimester
Week 4 to week 12 is called the first trimester of pregnancy. During the first week, your prenatal visit will be scheduled once a month.
- The second trimester
Week 12 to week 24 is the second trimester during which your prenatal visits will increase to once in two weeks.
- The third trimester
24 weeks onwards, the doctor may increase your prenatal visit to once a week until your delivery day.
Your doctor may increase your prenatal visits if he finds any issues in your pregnancy and risks related to it.
Remember, every pregnancy is different hence; you should never compare your prenatal days with any other pregnancy. To know more about prenatal visits and special care during pregnancy, you can contact Dr. Suryanarayan Mohanty online as well. He is one of the senior and best gynecologist doctors in Bhubaneswar. He also provides online consultation. You just have to follow the simple steps:
For online gynecological consultation, you can use two ways:
1. Fill the form and get advice-
Fill the form that is available on the official website of the gynecologist online. In the online form, you should fill out all required information about you and explain the query or gynecological issue that you have. After some time, you will get a call from the doctor.
2. Directly call the doctor-
In case of emergency, you can also call our doctors. Dr. Suryanarayan Mohanty is one of those fewer doctors who share his numbers with his patients so that he can serve them in an emergency.
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