Hang on, we’re not talking Star Wars, we’re talking days past ovulation and when you can experience pregnancy symptoms. (upbeat music) Hello, lovelies, and welcome to another one of the videos of this very nerdy fertility homeopath, thank you for sticking with me.
But, in this video, I am talking to you about a question that I get all the time. I get women that ask, “I am one day past ovulation, “two days, three days, four days, “and I have sore breasts, I have nausea, “I have headaches,” and then comes the question, “Are these pregnancy symptoms?”, or, “Could I be pregnant?” And to that last question, “Could I be pregnant?”, my answer is yes and no.
Yeah, great, right? Always these diplomatic answers from me. But, here is why. The answer to this question all has to do with implantation, and I’ve done several videos on implantation, so I’ll link one in the corner and I think I’ll link a playlist at the end, so make sure to check those out as well. Because this is how early pregnancy works.
You ovulate, right, you make use of your fertile window, you make love to your husband, and then the little egg gets fertilized. But, for the moment, that’s not interesting. Initially, what happens is, you’ve got the egg that is released from the ovary, and then progesterone is produced. If an egg is fertilized in the meantime, it is dividing, dividing, dividing, and it’s traveling down the fallopian tube.
All this time, your body doesn’t really know that it’s pregnant yet. It only knows when it’s pregnant when that egg has implanted into your uterus. So, up until that point, progesterone has gone up, and progesterone can cause symptoms. Progesterone can give you sore breasts, progesterone can give you nausea, even, it can give you headaches, et cetera, et cetera.
But, it’s not until the egg is implanted, which is usually about eight or 10 days past ovulation, but it can happen as early as six days and as late as 12 days, and it’s not until implantation happens that your body starts to produce HCG, and HCG is the pregnancy hormone.
And it is that pregnancy hormone that is usually accounted for all the pregnancy symptoms. However, in pregnancy, progesterone goes up, estrogen goes up, so those hormones can also cause symptoms, and this is why right after ovulation when your body doesn’t know yet that it’s pregnant, progesterone can give you symptoms that seem like pregnancy symptoms.
So, if you’re only one, two, three, four days after ovulation and you experience nausea and sore breasts, are you pregnant? You could be, we just don’t know yet. We will only know once implantation has happened.
In my experience, pregnancy symptoms rarely start before six or seven days past ovulation at its very, very earliest. So, if you want to know if your symptoms are pregnancy related, then look at when they started. Is it right after ovulation and before that six, seven-day mark?
Then, chances are, it’s more progesterone-related than anything else. If it’s after that, then chances are that it is indeed related to pregnancy. If you’re having symptoms throughout the whole two-week wait, it doesn’t mean anything, you could still be pregnant.
So, the only way you’ll really know is once you’ve taken that test. But, make sure to have a look at the Implantation Symptoms video as well that I did, because that can give you some more clues about whether you’re pregnant or not when you’re still in the two-week wait.
And in the meantime, don’t worry too much about it, because time will come around and you will know if you’re pregnant or not. Now you know that if your symptoms start before six or seven days past ovulation, they’re likely not pregnancy-related, and if they start after that, chances are that they are.
But, for you to know how many days past ovulation you are, you need to be charting, so if you haven’t started that yet, you can do so with my free charting course. I will link in the description (upbeat music) how you can sign up to that.
If you want to learn more about implantation and how to survive the two-week wait, make sure to click on the playlist I mentioned on your screen right now, and don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already and hit that notification bell if you want to be notified the next time I upload new content, which is every Thursday. And in the meantime, see you in the next video, bye.
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