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Your pregnancy hormones , explained

If you’re pregnant or recently had a baby, your hormones are wreaking havoc on your body and your mind. Here, find out what exactly six of the most important hormones are busy doing.1. Did you see a plus sign on the stick? It’s the Human chorionic gonadotropin , or hCG hormone that’s detected in a positive pregnancy test. It’s also responsible for jump-starting all of the other pregnancy hormones in the body. Production of hCG starts at fertilization and levels rapidly rise until 10 weeks when they peak.“hCG is the big hormone for why people feel so miserable at the beginning of the pregnancy,” according to Dr. Allison Hill, a board-certified OB/GYN in Los Angeles and one of the stars of Deliver Me on OWN.  As early as 8 to 10 days after fertilization, it’s common to feel symptoms like nausea and vomiting, aka “morning sickness,” fatigue, dizziness, breast tenderness, heartburn, constipation, and irritability. This hormone also causes the uterus to swell so you may already feel pressur...

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