You cannot diagnose a pregnancy by merely looking at a woman's eyes. This is a historical and outdated method of detecting pregnancy.
Puffy Eyes
Bloating and puffiness is common in pregnancy, and it can even affect your eyes. It's common for women to develop puffiness around their eyes or on the eyelids. Once again, you can blame it on the hormonal changes that occur when you're expecting.
Hormonal Changes
Fluid retention in the eyes can increase pressure in the eyeball, resulting in a thicker cornea that can be causing blurry vision. You may also notice puffiness in your eyelids or reduced tear production, both of which can also obscure your vision.
Take a home pregnancy test
The cheapest, easiest, most accessible way to confirm you're pregnant is with a home pregnancy test. This form of testing can identify a positive pregnancy result as early as two weeks after fertilization, making it one of the fastest ways to learn more about your situation.
Some women may begin noticing the first early signs of pregnancy a week or two after conception, while others will start to feel symptoms closer to four or five weeks after conception. Some women may not feel symptoms until their period is noticeably late, or even farther into pregnancy.
The hormonal and physical changes experienced by expectant mothers might include dry eye, blurred vision, or severe changes to vision. These may also be the first sign of a more serious condition like gestational diabetes. Slight vision changes are common for pregnant women to experience.
Pregnancy can change vision by making your eyes more sensitive to light, causing headaches or migraine pain.
To check your pulse over your carotid artery, place your index and middle fingers on your neck to the side of your windpipe. When you feel your pulse, look at your watch and count the number of beats in 15 seconds.
Normally, the color of urine can be light yellow or yellow to transparent. But for a pregnant woman, this change is more prominent and noticeable. The urine color can change from light yellow to dark yellow. It can go to an orange-yellow shade too.
Lower abdominal pain is normal during pregnancy and is most common between 18 and 24 weeks. Your growing uterus is pulling and straining the muscles that support it. You may feel sharp pains or just a mild pulling sensation. It often occurs when you cough, sneeze, stand up, sit down, roll over, or during sex.
Many people experience what seem to be pregnancy symptoms shortly before their period arrives. This happens because the hormone progesterone rises both during early pregnancy and in the premenstrual period. 1 In short, PMS symptoms and early pregnancy symptoms can sometimes be exactly the same.
During pregnancy, the amount of blood pumped by the heart (cardiac output) increases by 30 to 50%. As cardiac output increases, the heart rate at rest speeds up from a normal prepregnancy rate of about 70 beats per minute to as high as 90 beats per minute.
One example of when we see noticeable changes in the pulse is in pregnancy. A woman's pulse may be thin and soft as she prepares for conception (we are using Acupuncture and herbs to pump it up), when she becomes pregnant the pulse gets quicker, a little stronger, and can start to have a slippery feel to it.
The surging hormones of pregnancy can change the quality and amount of tear production in the eye, leading to dry eye syndrome, with symptoms including excessive tearing, intermittent blurry vision and a scratchy, often burning sensation.
It's common to have dry eyes, or dry-eye syndrome, in pregnancy. It's caused by hormonal changes. Your eyes are dry because of a change in the amount, or type, of tears you produce, meaning your eyes aren't kept moist enough. Dry-eye syndrome can affect you more in second, or subsequent pregnancies.
Early pregnancy (first trimester) abdominal symptoms include nausea/morning sickness, cramping, constipation, heartburn, bloating, and gas. Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the wall of the uterus, and pregnancy symptoms may begin in some people as early as a week after implantation.
In early pregnancy, a bigger belly or feeling of tightness is probably due to digestive changes. As your uterus takes up more room in your pelvis, it's pushing your intestines upward. In addition, hormonal changes are slowing your digestion, leading to increased gas and constipation.
You will start to notice changes in your body's shape and size. You may have some back and joint aches. You may develop a brownish line down the middle of your belly and uneven brown marks around your eyes, nose, and cheek. During your third trimester, you will become more visibly pregnant.
In rare cases, women (or even men) believe they are pregnant, only to find out that their symptoms were caused not by pregnancy, but by something else entirely. False pregnancy, clinically termed pseudocyesis, is the belief that you are expecting a baby when you are not really carrying a child.
A false pregnancy is also known as a phantom pregnancy, or by the clinical term pseudocyesis. It's an uncommon condition that causes a woman to believe she's pregnant. She'll even have many classic symptoms of pregnancy. But this isn't related to a miscarriage.
In the first trimester (weeks 0 to 12) it is common to feel mild pains in the lower tummy area. These are caused by hormonal changes and by your growing womb.