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Are you planning to conceive? Well, one thing you should know is that a pregnancy test is capable of detecting pregnancy days before you miss your period. But that’s not the only way to detect pregnancy quickly. Have you head of 5 DPO? It stands for 5 Days Post Ovulation and involves symptoms that you can check for to know whether you have conceived.
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This is because most women can notice pregnancy symptoms after 5 DPO.
5 DPO Symptoms
While looking for 5 DPO symptoms or early signs of conception as early as 5 days after ovulation. Take a look at the symptoms you need to check for to know whether you could be pregnant:
- Your breasts start to feel tender
- You get headaches and feel fatigued
- You have major food cravings and/or aversion to some foods
- You experience morning sickness, along with mood swings
- You might be urinating more frequently
- You might also experience some spotting due to the implantation of the egg on the uterine wall.
These symptoms also occur when there is a hormonal change during menstruation or the ovulation cycle, so it isn’t a foolproof method of detecting pregnancy, say doctors at the best maternity hospital in Bangalore.
What Happens in the Womb?
So, what happens during the 5 days post ovulation? If you have had unprotected sex, the sperm will travel up the vaginal canal to reach the egg. Here, it will fertilize the egg, which will form into a zygote and the cells will start to multiply to form a blastocyst. The blastocyst will then travel down the fallopian tube to the uterus. Upon reaching the uterus, it attaches itself to the uterine wall. During at 5 DPO, the blastocysts could be either traveling or already connected to the walls of the uterus.
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If you think you might be pregnant, it is best to consult a gynecologist. Noting down the symptoms, such as headache, fatigue, food aversions and cravings, and discussing them with your doctor will give you a clearer picture of the current situation. The level of your pregnancy hormones will also rise in your blood and urine, which allows for an accurate reading when you take a pregnancy test.
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The general window for the implantation to take place between 6 DPO and 12 DPO but having an implantation as early as 5 DPO does occur at times. But it is difficult to check for implantation, which is why most women track their pregnancy from the last period they have, rather than the time of conception. That is how you can predict it as 2-weeks pregnant, 5-weeks pregnant, etc.
If you are experiencing spotting and cramping 5 days after your ovulation window, it could be a sign that the zygote is implanting itself on to the uterine wall. One more way to know if implantation is taking place is to track your basal body temperature, which is basically your body temperature when you are at rest.
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