Ladies who have been/are pregnant... when did you first feel symptoms?

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

I am feeling 'weird' for lack of a better term. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I'm just curious. How early did you feel that you may be pregnant? What did you feel? Thanks in advance.

[Lyric]

1. I didn't really "feel" pregnant until I was about 3 months along

Then the nausea hit. It wasn't limited to mornings, either! Ugh. I walked around for a month feeling a little queasy pretty much constantly, and vomiting didn't make me feel better. I also felt drop-dead exhausted in those first few months. All of that went away by the time I made it to 4 1/2 months.

Good luck! :hug:

[AlCzervik]

2. after about a month, my boobs--yes i said boobs, hurt like i was premenstrual

but it continued, then after about 6 weeks i started getting pukey and then i finally took about 5 home pregnancy tests and it confirmed i did not have the flu.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

9. I had the same

experience with the boobie pain and the sickness - but I went to a doctor the first time to confirm my FEAR... the second time I just knew it but bought 2 tests --- With the 2nd one I had evening sickness instead of morning sickness...

I like my kids even though they made me suffer so.
:sarcasm:

[Arugula Latte]

3. Both times I became very, very tired within a week or two

Sometimes it felt like I had been drugged.

It seems like the veins in my chest started showing more, pretty early on.

But, in talking to people it seems like sometimes pregnancy hits you right away, sometimes you don't feel much for a long time.

[txwhitedove]

4. Very early with all 3 kids, within the first 2- weeks and actually...

wet the bed once with each one - kind of "Hello, we're making changes!"
With the last, the 2 little kids and I were grocery shopping, almost done
when I looked down at the cart full of cookies, cake mixes, every kind of sweet....
and it hit me, "I'm pregnant."

Best wishes to you if you are pregnant. It's a wonderful adventure.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

5. Within hours. But I've always been sensitive to intrusions

of any kind. :)

[mzteris]

6. 2-3 weeks

the usual test(s) came back negative, I KNEW I was. It took blood tests to confirm for me.

And ayuh - I was right every time.

I just "knew".

Sore breasts.

TIRED. VERY.

Mild nausea (in the beginning)

Just felt a bit 'funny'.

Good luck!!!

Hope the situation is what you want it to be! :hi:

[Lefta Dissenter]

7. Just a few days...

sore boobies!

[tigereye]

8. um, 2 days later - it just feels different...

I knew I was when I went to the Dr. and had the actual test.

it's kind of cosmic, I suppose. You have a sense of change and of new life. Later you feel really tired because your body is going through so many changes, and maybe the nausea starts (not always).

[midlife_mo_Jo]

10. For my first pregnancy

I woke up and the smell of coffee just didn't seem appealing to me. Mind you, I was a three or four cup o' coffee every morning addict! A couple of days later, I realized I was pregnant, so I had symptoms extremely early in that pregnancy. A coouple of weeks later, I started getting terrible nausea almost all day long, and threw up for months. I could also fall asleep anywhere

In my subsequent pregnancies, my symtoms came a little later - mostly morning sickness and full breasts, but thankfully, not as bad as the first! I don't think I was as tired as the first pregnancy, but maybe that's because I couldn't allow myself to be. :)

[regnaD kciN]

13. While I'm not a woman...

...my wife told me that the first sign she was pregnant was within a couple of weeks or less, when her sense of smell increased suddenly -- odors just seemed a lot stronger than before.

[wildhorses]

11. by the second week.

both times, by 14 days i knew.

[Whisp]

12. deleted. misunderstood the OP.

[caty]

14. The very first sign for me

was sleeping a lot. Then every week a new change. The sore boobies, etc.

[malta blue]

15. I had stronger "PMS-like" symptoms way too early...

Thought hmmm.... and then mentioned it to a friend a couple of weeks later (and by then I was a day or two late) and she told me "You're pregnant, silly!"

[QMPMom]

16. 11 days before I found out I was pregnant

I was puking every time I was near food. It started on Christmas Eve and stopped when our daughter was born the next September. I was about three weeks along at that time.

[Amaya]

17. I knew before I took a test

One night I was drinking a glass of wine and it tasted really strange.
It made me sick to my stomach.( that never happens) :)
I felt something was different.
I knew. A week later I took a test and it was positive.

[Blue_Roses]

18. about 2-3 weeks after conception

sick, yuk feeling in my stomach and bad heartburn, not to mention all the other things that were acting like very strong PMS...after about the 13th week things got somewhat better until I started to get big, then I looked like a beached whale! Ahhhhhh... the joys of pregnancy! :D

[Maine-ah]

19. before I even missed my period

everything tasted like fish.

[MissMillie]

20. Given that exhaustion is one of the early symptoms... I'd say I felt it right away

I also had an uneasiness of the tummy. I didn't vomit really, just a lot of burping, and my tummy would grumble a lot.

Easily... within just a couple weeks, I had those symptoms.

[SarahB]

21. A week or two.

Achy boobs and before the nausea hit (and during), a strongly amplified sense of smell.

[NewWaveChick1981]

22. The one time I was pregnant, I felt it a couple of days later.

I didn't know I was pregnant at the time, but I started feeling VERY fatigued and achy in all the telltale places only about two days later. About three days after that, I started throwing up (not just in the morning, but all freakin' day every day...) I thought it was because my period was due the following week and PMS had arrived early. Oh, noooo.. no period. :( When I took a home pregnancy test three days after I was due for my period, it showed positive.

The achiness, nausea, breast tenderness, and complete fatigue were the symptoms I had very early on. I'm not planning to be pregnant ever again, so that's all I have to go on.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

23. wow.. that's fast

I don't know if it's just wishful thinking on my part. Both the potential father and I would be ecstatic, so it would not be an unwanted pregnancy.

But I know my fertility is highly doubtful and I'm 35. I've been feeling queasy for the past couple of days. The lymph nodes under my tongue are sore. I'm super tired and I have a continuous light headed feeling that can't go away even after sleeping.

So who knows???

[LaraMN]

24. Before I missed my period, or about the time it was due.

I got pukey and really tired. That was about it.
It was a very distinct kind of "pukey" feeling though- different from being sick. I recognized it promptly in my second and third pregnancies. I wasn't expecting to be pregnant, the feeling hit, and I immediately thought, "uh-oh"...

[Sequoia]

25. About two or three weeks.

I felt my waist thickening.

[skygazer]

26. The first time, not until about 4 or 5 months

I felt great the first time I was pregnant. I knew I was because I'd missed my period but I never got morning sickness or anything else. Really, the only way you could tell was because I gained a little weight - and I mean just a little. I was wearing 32 waist jeans the day I had my daughter. I wear larger than that now. :grr:

Second time, around a month. Miserable morning sickness, tired all the time. Completely different.

And the third time, almost immediately. No joke. I knew I was pregnant within the first week.

Everyone and every time is different. Hope its good news for you. :hug: