When did you start to feel pregnant??

rachlee2010 · March 2016

I am about 5w 5days pregnant and I just don't feel pregnant. While in my 2ww My boobs were sore but that has pretty much gone away. I am not nauseous at all (but my mom and grandmother never had any morning sickness with their pregnancies) Sometimes I feel a heaviness or pulling in my uterus area but a lot of times I feel normal. I know it's fine to not have symptoms but I would like something to reassure me.

KidShrink · March 2016

Congrats on your bfp and welcome! It's definitely normal not to feel any different, especially at this point (believe me, you'll feel pregnant enough soon

) I was probably a bit of an exception in that it seems like I 'felt' everything. My uterus was feeling super heavy about 3 days after my IUI, and Inwas exhausted 7 days later. I turned my first real positive test 9 or 10 days after. The fatigue was there for me from the get go. I started feeling some aversions and nausea around 6-7 weeks, but that was mild (I just didn't want to have anything to do with chocolate, which I normally love). Significant nausea started around 8 weeks, at which point I went on diclectin because I never knew if I was going to throw up in front of the kids I was working with. I made the mistake to skip my dicletin around 10 weeks, thinking I was nearing the end of the first tri and had been feeling fine (thanks to the meds). My entire breakfast came out that day, and back on dicletin I went until week 13. I started wearing maternity pants around 10-11 weeks as I was super bloated and uncomfortable in my regular dress pants. However, my boobs really haven't changed much, even though I'm now 35 weeks.

I definitely wouldn't worry about not feeling pregnant now...it's very early still for those symptoms, and maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones without nausea!

emsmama15 · March 2016

Congratulations @rachlee2010! My main symptom has been exhaustion and I feel like that started pretty early. But I've had very few other symptoms. If not for my rapidly expanding uterus and the associated round ligament pain, I don't even feel overly pregnant now (18 weeks). Well, I do feel the babies now too, but I was so sick and uncomfortable with my daughter. This pregnancy is so different. So, don't worry if you don't feel pregnant at this point. You will!!!

riveridgional · March 2016

Evwn with feeling movement in my 18th week, I didn't actually feel pregnant until about 20 weeks when my belly started making bending over slightly difficult. I still sometimes "forget" I'm pregnant at moments.

Piperella · March 2016

I feel pregnant when I try to eat too much.. oh my how digestion has slowed down. Currently at 13 weeks, there have been days the past few weeks where I just feel great. Like it's just another day, nothing special cooking... Other times I forget when I'm lifting something too heavy because I'm doing something by myself and then DH fusses at me or when I try to "hop" down in a seat or get up really quickly.. Oh yea, then I remember I'm pregnant.

I'm looking forward to feeling the baby move and kick, as they are physical things I can feel. I have gotten nervous the day before each ultrasound, but have been reassured as soon as I see that flickering heartbeat on the screen. I think our IF brains have something to do with out nervousness and anxieties of feeling pregnant.

kennelchick · March 2016

I agree with the IF brain. Every time I tell someone I'm pregnant, I feel like I'm lying. I don't know if it's because I spent so long trying to get pregnant, so many months before ivf waiting to see if I got my period and two years of disappointment. I personally can't wait for the big baby bump and feeling some kicks.

Vagarcia16 · March 2016

Congrats @rachlee2010 ! It's normal not to feel pregnant this soon. One of my first symptoms was fatigue. I also felt the "heaviness" of my uterus, as you described. Almost as if I'd had a really intense ab workout. I started feeling nausea around 7wks, and it lasted until about 15 wks. Now at 19wks, I feel great, have a lot of my energy back, along with a noticeable baby bump which reminds me that I'm pregnant! The pregnancy symptoms, if only the baby bump, will come soon enough!

tvh1982 · March 2016

First time I felt pregnant was this morning when walking to the bus and TMI following: trying to find a quick spot in town to puke.
I was like, jupp, pregnant.

Edited : English is hard

laur2835 · March 2016

I am 11 weeks today and still don't feel pregnant! Besides being extra hungry and feeling a little bloated and constipated on certain days, I really have no other symptoms. No nausea, no sickness, been exercising every day as normal....I guess when I get a bump that's when I'll believe it! Anxious to go to the OB next Wednesday (12 weeks) and see my LO again to make sure everything is fine!! Haven't been since my last RE appointment at 8 weeks 5 days!

rachlee2010 · March 2016

Thanks ladies..I sometimes feel pregnant but other times feel 100% normal and fine..I think my biggest thing is I feel like I should feel a huge difference in my lower abdomen/uterus area and I don't although at times I feel a heaviness or twinge/cramp but nothing significant. I know that's ok because everything is still so small at this point.

riveridgional · March 2016

I am 20w4d and am just recently starting to actually feel different in my stomach. The first trimester, the baby is tiny and tour uterus is still behind your pubic bone. The first thing you'll likely start to notice is that as your uterus grows up, your lower stomach will get rock hard like you're rocking an amazing 6 pack. I find myself constantly poking my belly, amazed at how hard it is. I think it's the stomach feeling firmer that I felt/feel when twisting or bending.

AdorkablePixie · April 2016

I'm 33 weeks pregnant and sometimes still don't feel pregnant.. until I go to bend down or something, then I'm like oh yeah, there's a belly in the way. lol

I guess I started to feel pregnant when I started to feel the kicks though. I first felt movement at 16 weeks, but for sure felt it (from inside and out!) at like 20 weeks I believe.

In the beginning I felt really tired, had weird dreams, and sore boobs but I honestly thought that was the progesterone at first giving me late side effects, until I got my BFP.

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