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How to Know If You Are Pregnant
Educational only: videos on MedicalVideos.com are for general information and are not medical advice. Always consult your own doctor about your health.
What are the earliest signs of pregnancy? This educational video reviews the symptoms that can suggest pregnancy — such as a missed period, nausea, and breast tenderness — and explains why a pregnancy test is the reliable way to confirm it. General information only, presented for learning. Educational only — not medical advice.
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A labor and delivery nurse explains how pregnancy is confirmed, contrasting home tests and blood tests with first-trimester symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, and tender breasts. She notes that the symptoms overlap with a coming period, and describes waiting about a week after a missed period before testing, when the pregnancy hormone the test detects is higher.
Key points
- Home pregnancy tests and clinician blood tests are contrasted
- First-trimester symptoms discussed include nausea, fatigue, and tender breasts
- The speaker notes symptoms can overlap with a coming period
- Timing of testing after a missed period is discussed in relation to hormone levels
Video Transcript
A labor and delivery nurse explains how pregnancy is confirmed, contrasting home and blood tests with first-trimester symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, and tender breasts. She notes the symptoms overlap with a coming period, and advises waiting about a week after a missed period before testing, when the pregnancy hormone the test detects is higher.
Read the full transcript
My name is Josie Minks and I'm a labor and delivery nurse in Austin, Texas. I'm here to talk about ways to know that you are pregnant. While there's the test, you can go to your doctor and get a blood test, or you can take a home pregnancy test, which is determined by being on a sick that says positive yes to your pregnant or negative, you're not pregnant. Or you can have, there are symptoms of pregnancy in your first trimester, such as nausea and vomiting, or fatigue, or a backache,
or a headache due to the hormonal changes, or swollen or tender breasts. Sometimes you can have spawning. It's difficult to tell if you're pregnant by these symptoms, because often these symptoms are the same as having a menstrual period. More definitive would be a blood test or a home pregnancy test. Home pregnancy tests can occasionally be inaccurate. It's recommended that you wait a week after your first misperiod, because that is when you have the most human cornealic when you're out of tropin, a hormone that is present during pregnancy.
The more days that you wait to take that home pregnancy test, the more of that hormone there is present to determine if it's accurate or not in that home pregnancy test. So these are ways to determine if you're pregnant or not.
Transcript auto-generated from the video’s audio for accessibility and study. Educational content only — not medical advice.
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