O/T - Pregnancy Symptoms

[Hillbeans]

Just wondering how you "knew" or "thought" you were PG before you found out for sure.

 

[floridaminnie]

I just had a feeling...can't explain it....I just knew.

 

[browneyes]

With my dd, I grew a cup size on top the first month I was pregnant. I kinda thought that might've been what was going on. Then I was late and felt tired all the time.

With my ds, I was late and felt tired all the time.

 

[mickeyboat]

Extreme tenderness in the chest area. It hurt so much I couldn't let the water from the shower touch it. That was only a couple of days after ovulation.

Denae

 

[shmoogrrrl]

With my daughter, I was VERY tired and my tummy always felt really weird if I didn't eat. I had to keep food in my tummy or I felt ill. Not really like I was going to be sick or anything, just strange feeling.

I got pregnant again last November (but miscarried in December). With that pregnancy, I had the whole tired thing again and this time, I noticed that I was very bloated in the tummy area.

Hope that helps!

Good luck!

 

[Christine]

I didn't have a clue and was shocked both times! In hindsight, the symptoms were there (mainly EXTREME breast tenderness--but I chalked it up to too much sodium during the month). Then one time during my second pregnancy (but before I had even missed my period), I was eating an ice cream and this weird wave a nausea came over me. Again, it never occurred to me. Of course, I was taking birth control pills at the time and never dreamed I could be pregnant so I could have felt a baby kicking and gone into denial over it!

 

[Jenn Lynn]

I was visiting my girlfriend in Chicago and I started craving a hamburger so bad! This is weird because 1) I do not like hamburgers. 2) I never crave meat. We went to a restaurant and I ordered a big juicy burger with the works and ate the whole thing!

Flew home 2 days later took a PG test and it was positive. I craved meat throughout my entire pregnancy.

 

[NMAmy]

I used to lie on my stomach on the floor to watch TV until I got pregnant. I was on the pill and didn't realize that that's what the problem was. But I couldn't figure out why it hurt my stomach to lie that way! The ironic thing is that the movie I was watching when I figured this out was "Look Who's Talking"!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

I got under the bed covers on a cold winter night and my lips were burning. I was so hot. My metabolism kicks into overdrive whenever I'm pregnant. I start losing weight. I think it has something to do with my hydrothyroidism.

Lori

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I just had a feeling...can't explain it

I was driving to work in my car and I put in the Love Songs album by Elton John and hit 'random'. The first song that played was "Blessed" and I got this really wierd feeling. I put my hand over my stomach and thought, 'Nah..can't be pregnant. Just my wierd cycle doing it's wierd cycle-not-always-regular-sometimes-going-50-days-between-periods thing.'. I wasn't really getting morning sickness..and the few times I did get sick, I attributed it to bad food or something the night before. After nearly 3 mos with no period, DH forced me to take a pregnancy test, which I thought was false. The next day, I took another one which also came up positive. Man..we were so freaked out it wasn't even funny.

TOV

 

[liznboys]

With #1 I had no clue, I was just hopeful.

With #2 I just felt like I was, can't explain it.

With #3 the morning sickness started at just 3.5 weeks along, before I even got a positive pregnancy test. Fun.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I didn't know. That's why I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was almost 7 weeks along. The day after I took the test, I started getting morning sickness....really badly. Go figure.

 

[castlegazer]

Hillbeans, do you have something you want to confess?

I knew right away for my first - I just knew.

This pregnancy had me on here a few weeks ago asking the same question because in the previous months I had every sympton I could think of only to find out I wasn't prgenant - my stomach bloated, I had indigestion, I couldn't stay awake past 9 at night.

This time, no symptons, none whatsoever. Now that I know, my chest hurts and is growing (it never grew back down after the first, I am horrified to think how big its going to get this time around ), and I am utterly and debilatatingly exhausted. But that's it for right now - in fact I am dying to get to the Docs to have him tell me its really true, I am pregnant. Oh, but now that I am about 8 weeks along I am having a lot of trouble finding clothes to wear in the morning - its my second and I .... well, lets just say I never gained back a six pack abs look after the first, so it makes it easier for the little paunch to show earlier.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

my chest hurts and is growing (it never grew back down after the first, I am horrified to think how big its going to get

Welcome to my world. I was kinda horrified when my already generous bust started to grow..and grow..and grow. It's like it was Attack of the Killer Mom ****s!

TOV

 

[IandGsmom]

Originally posted by floridaminnie
I just had a feeling...can't explain it....I just knew.

Me too. Then I got big sooo quickly the doc did an ultrasound and said " I have 2 heartbeats" I was in shock for like hours. Now I have twin 6 year old boys tearing up my house...and I love it.

 

[two4ruff]

I "felt it" too.

I also got all congested and stuffy each time, along with achey joints - wierd, I know.

 

[Barb D]

I've been pg four times (three kids, one miscarriage.) Each time I had a 99 temp for the first few weeks. With the first one I suspected I was pg, and thought I had the flu at the same time. I didn't want to take anything because of the suspected pg. Now I know that my body responds to pg with an elevated temp. (My normal is about 97.)

I also have a weird indigestion that I only get when pg, and it starts at day 1.

 

[buddy&wooz]

With all three of my kids I just knew, I can't really explain why though. I even told my in-laws I was pregnant with son three before I took the test, I was that sure (and I was only about a week along!)

 

[cinmell]

My symptoms were waking up in the middle of the night to have peanutbutter on crakers and total exhaustion.

 

[cats7494]

I got tired sooo easily! I could not figure out why...then Lo, and Behold... I was a Mommy to be