your first symptom.... in hind sight!

dancegurl1118 · November 2014

Sore breasts, insomnia (and subsequent falling asleep EVERYWHERE) and peeing every hour. I tested postive 9dpo which put me at like 3w3d so apparently I am just super sensitive to ANY hormonal change..

KimberlyandThor2014 · November 2014

Pure exhaustion on my honeymoon! I fell helplessly asleep anytime we lay down for more than a few seconds. I slept long nights and then stole a few hours of nap each day!

ETA spelling

thursdaychick · November 2014

My breast being sore. They were sore during ovulation ( as usual) but not stopped being sore. I thought it was weird. And about a week later I started being sick.

housewifebecomesher · November 2014

I had all of the same symptoms I did with DD. So much that I took a test (obv too early) and got a false negative about a week before I got my BFP.

I was peeing constantly, and my boobs had the tingly feeling I would get when my milk letdown, crossed with an occasional soreness.

And oh yeah, could not stop eating all of the sudden and couldn't zip my jeans.

TheNewMrsY · November 2014

I had a lot of symptoms very early on, many of which I could explain away and I'll never really know if they were pregnancy-related. (Super tired, emotional). The ones that made me even more suspicious were scratchy eyes (I had this later on in pregnancy with DD and I had forgotten about it. Then when I felt it, it was very familiar!) and also one of my cats was very clingy and always on my belly. She also did this last time I was pregnant. And acneeeeee which is still raging.

popples8 · November 2014

I am not one to cry. In fact in bothers me sometimes to the point that I worry I'm under emotional. The day before I tested I began hysterically crying while out on a run that I had too many papers to grade. At the time I thought it was just stress but thinking back after the bfp if completely made sense.

myconfessionx · November 2014

i was making hamburgers and ended up in the bathroom nauseous because i couldnt stand the smell. i tested the next day when i got out of work.

carlykate · November 2014

Sore boobs and a weird breathing issue where my deep breaths were unsatisying (very scary!)...I was a bridemaid in my SIL's wedding and I had to have my mom unzip my dress in the bathroom because I couldn't breathe! Didn't get a positive test until a full week later (tested everyday including one blood test!)

leenziepops · November 2014

In hindsight the implantation bleeding was not a first time ever in my life random light period. I hadnt done much reading and was unaware of implantation bleeding.
Then all the PMS like symptoms. I was 100% positive my period was just around the corner because i was in a state of disbelief that i could be pregnant within first month.

carolyngrace · November 2014

KimberlyandThor2014 said:

Pure exhaustion on my honeymoon! I fell helplessly asleep anytime we lay down for more than a few seconds. I slept long nights and then stole a few hours of nap each day! ETA spelling

Did you just think it was from the wedding and traveling? That's what I would have assumed at the time!

GirPipley · November 2014

SO and I went to Cedar Point 7-9DPO, on 7DPO we were standing in line for a ride, and I got a twinge/cramp feeling that felt almost like BH contractions. I totally became a crazy "I just know I'm pregnant" lady. I tested at 10DPO and got a pretty decent BFP. I *almost* thought I shouldn't ride any more rides, but snapped out of that crazy real fast.

Other than that, my only symptoms, even now, are HUGE boobs, and I'm tired as F. I haven't really had any other sypmtoms.

jazjack94 · November 2014

I actually had just about every symptom in the book.! The very first I would have to say that caught my attention was I noticed I would be light headed after sex. Then came the disturbing dreams that would result in me waking up in tears for 3 days straight.! Then I finally knew something was up when I would wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. I am one of those people who doesn't like their sleep to be interrupted so I always hold it until the next morning.! Finally I was getting ready to go to ao party with my bestfriend when I began to look for an outfit when I realized nothing fit the way it was supposed to, I was huge.! That was the first time someone said aloud... Girl You're Pregnant! I missed my period about two weeks later and tested positive 4 weeks pregnant.!

poppyc8 · November 2014

Interrupted sleep from peeing in middle of night. I always sleep like a log.

KimberlyandThor2014 · November 2014

carolyngrace said:

KimberlyandThor2014 said:

Pure exhaustion on my honeymoon! I fell helplessly asleep anytime we lay down for more than a few seconds. I slept long nights and then stole a few hours of nap each day!

ETA spelling

Did you just think it was from the wedding and traveling? That's what I would have assumed at the time!

I kept myself in check thinking that way...we had just finished a big DIY wedding and were spending our honeymoon in the sun so I kept telling myself it might just be that. DH was afraid I would get too excited and be let down if we got home to a negative test. But I was able to test two days after we returned and BFP!

cmiller419 · November 2014

Bloating and I had to pee a lot.

jessila9 · November 2014

Coffee tasted so wrong! And I was offered chocolate multiple times and wanted nothing to do with it.

mishmardhiono · November 2014

My husband kept trying to cook our favourite curry for dinner and I was totally repulsed.. 3 weeks later found out I was pregnant and the curry still repulses me

paintdadanta · November 2014

I had severe nausea all day every day for two weeks before I got a BFP which was at 4 weeks exactly. Now I'm just really ready for it to go away.

Nellybaby12015 · November 2014

I was extremely tired...I fell asleep at my desk at work...snores and all...I was cramping but no period....normally I would start cramping the day before my period starts. The father knew I was pregnant the day of conception (heard that before, so I didn't think of anything) 4days after missed period I tested positive... I'm not having a lot of symptoms now....random nausea and cramps still.... Those haven't stopped.

betsyplunkett12 · November 2014

I kept falling asleep before 8 o'clock. I even fell asleep during my husband and I's favorite TV show. I had completely lost all my energy! I, also, got really crampy, so I thought my period was coming, but NOPE!

awheeler4311 · November 2014

Fatigue was unreal. Like nothing I've ever felt. But seeing as I woke up one morning and decided to take a pregnancy test to show H it was negative (we weren't trying, but I was off the pill and we knew it would happen eventually..he knew I was pregnant before I did somehow)... And it came up POSITIVE, a day before my missed period... I didn't even get to notice any symptoms before I knew really. But damn the fatigue was first to hit like a dreaming wrecking ball (cue Miley Cyrus)!!!!

ebby313 · November 2014

I had a craving for Chinese food and I finally got it my order was messed up I was so upset! The next week I was really tired and I got nauseous after trying to clean my bathroom! The next day I bought a test and it was positive

isesaisa · November 2014

My first symptom is usually shedding tears over something very touching. My third pregnancy it was a song by Ashanti called 'Dreams' with children voices at the end saying what they wanted to grow up to be. I was in tears. This one is number 5 and I knew when I watched sports highlights of the crowd singing the national anthem and I was so touched. I was in sobbing tears. Smh.
The following day I felt nauseous, heartburn, pukey. Took the test. Turns out I was five weeks.

Katerina&Baby · November 2014

None - I just bolted awake on one Saturday morning and thought to myself "wait - when is my period due?" So I peed on a stick (I had one left after a scare the year before) and got a BFP. Then I checked my calendar to try and figure out how late I was (I hadn't really been keeping track and my job is so insane that half the time I have no idea what day it is).

Life&Gwen · November 2014

I ate a LOT of white onions...on everything, sandwiches, salads. Just all onions, all the time! Edit...forgot! Severe insomnia for 4 days, like 2 hrs sleep a night, without feeling tired when awake. Been making up for it ever since.

lovethesun25 · November 2014

Missed period

alyssasarah · November 2014

I'm not sure if this counts as a symptom but I had implantation bleeding. The first "real" symptom was my boobs aching so horribly and feeling heavy.

mfeits87 · November 2014

I had a ridiculous craving for oranges and OJ. Like stop at the store everyday and buy 3 oranges ridiculous....I HATED OJ and oranges before....

I also had this crazy feeling in my breasts one day at clinical (I'm in nursing school) and I joked I was having chest pain. Instructor almost sent me to the ER until I explained it was the other kind of chest. After reading some of the comments here I'm wondering if its similar to the tingling "let down" feelings other moms had.

bellaitalia330 · November 2014

A few days after we "conceived" I had waves of nausea for a few days so I knew something was up. (My obgyn said that is due to hormone changes that start taking place right away) Also, about 9 dpo I had period like cramps and very very light spotting so I thought maybe it was going to start but when I was 1 day late I pretty much knew!

txrunnergal · November 2014

I had really crazy intense dreams and my runs were awful! Oh and my breast were really sore.

selma8 · November 2014

I had big dark circles under my eyes, which isn't something that really happens to me, even when I'm very tired.

ladyshank23 · November 2014

Very very frequent urinating. And implantation bleeding about a week before my expected cycle. Though it was Af showing early

ombradellarosa · November 2014

Being a hypochondriac who really wanted to be pregnant, I didn't trust my myriad of symptoms. I knew that a lot of early pregnancy symptoms are the same as PMS symptoms so I didn't trust anything. I had got all excited over my symptoms the previous months and then was disappointed when I got nothing but BFNs. So even though I was hungry all the time, tired all the time, sick if I didn't eat, lightheaded and dizzy, had headaches, I wasn't going to get excited until I got a BFP. I didn't know then that cramps are an early preg symptom too, so I thought that was a point in the PMS category. Looking back on it, the week of or after conception I went out to eat twice (it was my birthday week) and I felt so sick I had to leave the restaurant and the second time I was really disappointed I couldn't eat more and I just felt really weird.

Lynn&Andrew+1 · November 2014

My boobs were sore and they felt different. I told DH that I thought I had breast cancer and needed his opinion. Pregnancy didn't even cross my mind. -_-

myclaireface · November 2014

Just before my missed period, my boobs started aching like crazy. I just wanted to hold them close to me they hurt so bad.

min10.07 · November 2014

My "headlights" we're suddenly on all the time, and I was out of breath just walking - just 2 weeks pregnant!

[Deleted User] · November 2014

The user and all related content has been deleted.

AllieDionne · November 2014

For about a week leading up to my missed period and then the week after, (before I tested) I was so exhausted I couldn't get through the day without several naps!

scottstots · November 2014

I was really paying attention to my body since my first period off birth control came right on time at the end of August. My birth control made my period nonexistent so I hadn't had one in like 5 years so I was pretty pumped. In Both August and September I had some cramping on one side of my body around the time I was supposed to ovulate, so again I was feeling good about this machine.

Then a week before my missed period I was feeling really emotional and introspective. The next day I had some light bleeding and felt super dizzy. The next day I felt more bloated than I have in my entire life and was pretty sure I was pregnant at that point, though I thought it could be a new pms symptom. I impatiently waited through these symptoms all week and took a test one day after my missed period and I was pregnant.

It was an easy, obvious ride for me and I admire all of you who had to experience that impatient "not knowing" feeling every month for months or years.

mlindzz · November 2014

My first sign was a lovely one... No PMS symptoms before my 'missed period'!

I knew something was up! Usually I would have cramps, been extremely tired and likely moody. So thank you Mother Nature!

Want a personalized experience?

your first symptom.... in hind sight!

Re: your first symptom.... in hind sight!

Choose Another Board

Search Boards