you are going to want to stick around for this if you're trying to conceive
because this is the key and identifying what it's possibly your earliest sign of
pregnancy even before a pregnancy test is even effective hey there welcome to
my channel that mama goes today I am dishing on all of the important details
regarding implantation more specifically implantation cramping
and implantation bleeding hopefully by the end of this video you'll be feeling
one step closer to your BFP or big fat positive my name is Brittany and I am a
registered nurse I worked at a holistic women's health practice where I learned
my passion for women's health and for teaching about and learning about a
woman's cycle which is where this series comes from that's why I'm creating these
videos I'm a mom to one my son Eli is 20 months old
I'm currently pregnant and due in March I'm having a little girl so I'll be a
mom with two come March if you are new here welcome I so appreciate you being
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symptoms you're experiencing make sure to pick up the phone and call your
doctor okay alright now let's hop into the video so
today we're talking all about implantation and symptoms of implantation
I did an entire video about my early pregnancy symptoms if you missed that go
back and look at that I kind of touch on this stuff but next week I'm actually
going to do a whole video on early pregnancy symptoms and all the general
symptoms you can experience if you have in fact implanted but today is
specifically about symptoms relating to the actual act of implantation if that
makes sense so cramping and bleeding let's say you've ovulated and a sperm
did in fact fertilize the egg so the egg has to make its way down the fallopian
tube and into the uterus and eventually implant into the wall of the uterus and
this is implantation so let's first talk about cramping this basically occurs
when the newly fertilized egg implants itself into your uterine wall this
cramping is minor and brief if you typically experience menstrual cramps
and this is unique to everyone pain is unique to the individual but the one
thing that we know for sure is that implantation cramping should not be
classified as intense it should be minor and it should be pretty brief as well so
like one to two days maybe I've heard up to a little bit longer than that but
typically it's going to be in that range of one to two days it occurs in the
lower part of your abdomen typically some women have reported other
sensations such as piercing so when I think of piercing maybe like a sting
that might be something that I classify is piercing or a tingling sensation so
like if your foot falls asleep kind of that sensation some people will actually
experience it in their back so maybe you'll have a little bit of back pain or
back cramping or maybe you will feel pressure on your sides but the key here
for the cramping is that it's minor and brief so again if we're talking about
menstrual cramps it should not feel like menstrual
cramps it's definitely a much smaller lesser not as intense version of maybe a
menstrual cramp you shouldn't feel like you can't go on with your day-to-day
activity and as far as implantation bleeding goes again we're focusing on
light and brief so this should last maybe one to two days for some women
it's not even a day long it's it's a few hours or can even just be one streak of
blood that's what I experienced actually was one streak of blood in the midst of
my cervical mucus that was probably the earliest sign for me for this pregnancy
was one streak of blood so as far as length of time goes one to two days I
have heard up to three to four days typically again it's gonna fall on that
one to two day category your uterine lining is rich with blood so for some
women when the egg implants into the uterine wall that's why you see this
bleeding and that's why when it implants you might see some spotting this is not
your period it shouldn't really look anything like your period it's much
lighter typically people report that it's more of a pink or even a brown or
like I mentioned a streak of blood and it happens a few days ish and again this
isn't there is no perfect day that this will land on because as we have learned
through me doing these videos and hopefully you watching them that no
woman's cycle is the same even from cycle to cycle for the same woman it's not the
same so there's no way to really predict when implantation like what particular
day it's occurring typically implantation is going to occur at least
a couple days before your period is expected so if you notice like hey I'm
like spotting a couple of days before my period is actually due that that in fact
could be implantation bleeding there should not be any clots so if you're
known to have like small or large clots when you have your period you shouldn't
see this with implantation bleeding and the bleeding could be on and off for
implantation bleeding so you may find that you bleed a little and then stop
and then you have a little bit more and then stop it's not like your period
which kind of starts and then speeds up you have more and it's it's deeper and
redder you won't find it increasing in intensity or you shouldn't so as I
mentioned my personal experience with implantation bleeding was literally a
streak of blood it was a small streak in the midst of cervical mucus I want to
know have you experienced implantation bleeding if you have what did it look
like um are you experiencing it now maybe that's why you landed on this
video you can just write simple yes or no or if you feel comfortable
elaborating please let us know like what you saw because I think if odds are if
you're watching this video and you found this because you're searching for
implantation bleeding signs or anything like that you're probably looking for
experiences from other women so help a sister out write it in the comments
below as soon as implantation occurs your body
starts producing HCG which is actually what is detected by pregnancy test so
this is what is being looked for by the test or by the urine pregnancy test
essentially in order to either get that yes/no or that X or the double lines or
whatever it's measuring that hormone however a urine pregnancy test is not
expected to be positive until maybe three to four days after implantation
occurs because you do have to build up a small level of that HCG before it's
detectable in urine pregnancy tests this is why implantation cramping and
spotting / bleeding could be your very very earliest sign even before a
pregnancy test so that's my summary of implantation cramping and bleeding do
you have any questions did you learn anything please let me know in the
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