Health: How to Tell if You're Pregnant

Society | January 30, 2004, Friday // 00:00

For most women, the first sign of pregnancy is when their periods stop. The absence of menstruation can be caused by many things, but if, in addition, your breasts feel swollen or tender and you feel nauseous - especially in the morning - it is likely that you are pregnant.

The normal way to test for pregnancy is with a urine test. This can be done at home using a pregnancy testing kit that can be bought over the counter at the chemist. You can take a pregnancy test just a few days after your missed period.

Conception takes place around the time of ovulation when the egg is released from the ovary. Ovulation takes place midway through the menstrual cycle, on about the 14th day, if the first day of menstruation is taken as day one.

The beginning of a pregnancy is calculated from the first day of the last period. A normal pregnancy will last 40 weeks in total and it is not too difficult to estimate the date on which a woman can expect to give birth.

If, for example, the first day of your last period was April 1st, add one week - April 8th. Then add nine months to find the date of the birth. In this case it will be January 8th the following year. But for an accurate prediction, the period must have occurred regularly, with approximately four weeks between the last two periods.

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