Is it normal to NOT experience mood swings?

MamaPigon · December 2016

I am at the beginning of my 9th week and I am a worrier as it is (as I'm anxiously waiting for my next ultrasound to make sure Tad is still doing okay) but I haven't had some of the symptoms women usually get like morning sickness, mood swings, or that dark line on your belly? I know these are caused by an increase in hormones but since I'm not experiencing them, I'm worried my hormone levels aren't adequate which I know leads to miscarriages.

Should I be worried? Anyone else in the same boat and baby doing okay??

chloe97 · December 2016

I'm 11 weeks and just got my Panorama back showing the baby is chromosomally normal. I've become way less irritable during pregnancy than in normal life. I swear my monthly hormone flunctuatioms hit me way harder than the pregnancy hormones. Though I will say my anxiety is way worse- but that could also be PGAL brain.

KissMeImScottish · December 2016

"Congratulations, you're a pregnancy unicorn!"

Words of my doctor with my last pregnancy, haha. Seriously, though. She followed it up by telling me to take a breath and that all women metabolize the hormones differently and that every pregnancy is different. I know it can be really disconcerting to not feel any different, especially this early, when you're belly hasn't started to grow yet and pregnancy feels almost like you're making things up when you tell people - I'm right there with you (with clinical anxiety to boot). Even with two in there, I'm literally only have one symptom: a super strong sense of smell, but not the standard gag reflex that usually accompanies that. I just smell everything from really far away now. Not having symptoms honestly, more often than not, just makes you one of the lucky ones who gets to feel good for two trimesters instead of miserable, good, and then miserable again. Unless you're bleeding and cramping, odds are everything is just fine in there. You'll relax a little once you start to feel your uterus, show, and baby starts to wiggle around in there, which I know can seem like forever away. But in the mean time, try enjoy feeling good - I know it's easier said than done, but I promise, you're not alone in the asymptomatic department.

MamaPigon · December 2016

I asked my husband if I was Moody and he said he liked me better pregnant because I was less irritable (but we also thought that might be a medication too that I was taking befote I found out I was pregnant)

Thanks for your reply!

RunRestRepeat · December 2016

Thanks for this, @ktewart! Apparently I'm a pregnancy unicorn - reading your response just made me feel a lot better! And congrats on the twins, btw! They run in my family, so we'll see what happens at Monday's us!

chamomile-2 · December 2016

@RunRestRepeat - I also have no morning sickness, no mood swings, and other than sleeping more than usual (8.5 hours instead of 7) and getting hungrier than usual at meal times, I have no symptoms! But just had a great ultrasound at 10+4 yesterday with a great heart rate and 2 arms + 2 legs waving all around! The tech busted out laughing at me because my first response was "Whoa there's someone in there!" Without the ultrasound I would barely know.

chamomile-2 · December 2016

@Cait32 they started with an external Doppler in the exam room and couldn't hear anything (which happens a lot at 10 weeks) so then I went over the imaging area and got an external ultrasound which showed everything perfectly. I had a full bladder which helps with external ultrasound, but I think it would have been fine without it because we saw the baby clearly at 8+6 with an external ultrasound also. Good luck today!!

mrscate88 · December 2016

My first pregnancy (Sep 15 mama) was so easy! Seriously, I was that pregnant woman that everyone hated haha. Never had a single "normal" pregnancy symptom. I was happy, energetic, had no cravings, no nausea, only gained 18 pounds, no stretch marks, no mood swings. It was seriously the best experience ever. If you're lucky enough to be symptom-free, just enjoy it. Every pregnancy is different. This round, I'm nauseous and tired and pukey and my sense of smell is slowly killing me. I should've appreciated my easy first pregnancy just a little bit more!

mrscate88 · December 2016

@ktewart Congrats on twins, I can't believe it!

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