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| Thu, 11-09-2006 - 9:27am |
The Body and The Luteal Phase: With progesterone high, women may experience tender breasts and nipples. Confoundingly, this is also an early pregnancy symptom as well. If you are fertility charting and you know where you are during your cycle, you can dismiss this early tenderness as a possible effect of post-ovulation progesterone. However, if tenderness continues or intensifies when you normally do not experience this sensitivity, you may have an early pregnancy sign. Progesterone can also precipitate PMS-symptoms like irritability, moodiness, etc.
After ovulation takes place, your cervical mucus will also undergo changes. Likely, the amount of mucus will decrease (some women experience dryness here) or the color/texture will change from transparent-stretchy to a white or yellow shade that is a bit more sticky and firm. Of course, women may experience different types of CM after ovulation and throughout the first part of the luteal phase.
So, after this long exegesis on hCG, we're still at a week after ovulation or so. We now understand that the "Chorion" in Human Chorionic Gonadotropin is related to the formation of the placenta. hCG is now flooding through your body, and the amount of hCG increases rapidly during the first weeks of pregnancy, doubling nearly daily. At seven to ten days past ovulation, you can begin testing for pregnancy with higher sensitivity pregnancy tests. Early detection pregnancy tests are excellent, though if you do receive a negative result this early, this should not be interpreted conclusively that pregnancy was not achieved. hCG can increase at different speeds, so we do urge you to test again using first morning urine samples. If you only have a few of our tests, we suggest taking the first one at ten days past ovulation and the second test a week later. What's nice about our very affordable test strips is that you can test practically daily!

~Robin
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