What is the pulse of pregnancy? What are the early symptoms?

Generally speaking, when a Chinese medicine practitioner feels the pulse of a pregnant woman, the pulse he feels is usually called a happy pulse. So, what is the pulse of pregnancy like?

What is a pregnancy pulse like?

"Happy pulse" is also called "slippery pulse" in traditional Chinese medicine. The pulse after pregnancy is not as short and strong as that of a normal person, nor as thin, soft and weak as when one is sick. To describe it in a physical waveform, the normal person has a narrow and high peak, which becomes flat during pregnancy, but the peak height does not decrease. To put it in an analogy, it is like a row of bubbles swimming through the patient's blood vessels, passing through your ring finger, middle finger and index finger in turn, at a relatively fast speed, one after another. To put it simply, it feels like a small iron ball rolling across your fingers one by one.

Early symptoms of pregnancy:

1. Frequent feeling of nausea and vomiting: Almost all pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy often feel nausea and vomiting, especially at the beginning of the day. These symptoms vary from person to person, and some people have very mild symptoms, while others have very severe symptoms. Unless you have severe nausea and vomiting, you don't need to see a doctor. Otherwise, these are normal phenomena in early pregnancy.

2. Breast pain, swelling and itching: Breast pain, swelling and itching are physiological phenomena in early pregnancy. In addition, there will be other changes such as darkening of areola color, obvious veins under the skin of the breast and obvious protrusion of nipples.

3. Easy to get tired: You may get tired easily in the early stages of pregnancy and often feel sleepy.