What was the VERY FIRST sign that you were pregnant? - Page 4

[jee'smom]

with dd: nothing! maybe slight cramping, but really felt completely normal.
with ds: a small (size of dime) spot on my upper lip that had turned brownish with dd and then faded after her birth, suddenly was dark again. i looked in the mirror one morning and said "what is that? oh my God... i'm pg!". also, my uterus actually felt like a low level of electricity was running through it (like it was buzzing!) constantly. after these 2 things, i just "knew" i was pg. even when the test came out negative, i threw it away and said, it's a mistake... i know for a fact that i'm pg. i just felt it. (i later pulled test back out and it had a faint positive)

[AnnMarie]

Originally Posted by UrbanPlanter

Even before you knew you were pregnant - in retrospect could you look back and find some signs of pregnancy from the very earliest days of conception? Like gassiness, or fatigue, or....

I knew before I was even late. I was sick and felt dizzy a lot. I also had a feeling the night of conception that I was pregnant.

[pixiexto]

first pregnancy ~ weird dizziness. It hit me when I was sitting down; suddenly the room would begin to spin!

second pregnancy ~ hmmm... not as clear. I remember having sore breasts, but that's about it.

[pumpkinhead]

I went to bed with my own boobs and woke up with stripper boobs. That and cramping, implantation spotting, fatigue.

[Charles Baudelaire]

Originally Posted by pumpkinhead

I went to bed with my own boobs and woke up with stripper boobs. That and cramping, implantation spotting, fatigue.

"Stripper boobs" :LOL So I guess we should call you "Pumpkinbra"?

[bri276]

1st preg- boobs were even more sore than usual before period

2nd preg- nothing until test

3rd preg- strangely enough, the *lack* of sore breasts tipped me off this time, because for months my boobs started hurting about 8 days before my period, and they didn't hurt at all. So nothing besides the + test. Then nausea began several days afterwards.

[Mama2Mila]

My sense of smell changed...some smells made me gag.

[bmanmommy]

Felt slightly sick to my stomach while DH was driving around a round-about.

[Sagesgirl]

I just remembered that my maternal grandmother was said to know immediately each time because she became violently intolerant of milk!

[annakiss]

dreams.

1st pg (very unplanned) - five baby dreams in 6 days. On the last day, I woke up & POAS. +

2nd pg (very planned) - I had a feeling, then had a dream about quints. Next morning (6 dpo or 8dpo, depending on 2 separate temp rises) woke up & POAS. +

[nancy926]

1st pg...don't remember, lol. We were pretty determined to get pg so I probably tested before I felt any symptoms!

2nd pg...not so planned (but not really unplanned either, if that makes any sense) - the only early symptom I got was I got REALLY slow while jogging. I had been jogging w/a neighbor for months and suddenly I had to stop a few times to catch my breath, and when I did run, I was going really slow. After 2 days of that a light bulb went on and I went and bought a test!

[honeybee]

With my first, I didn't want to "get my hopes up" so I did not know I was pg until I took the hpt. In retrospect, I had major fatigue, and felt like I was getting sick.

This time around, I was charting and had a good feeling about it. When I was constantly starving, got heartburn without cause, and started getting fuzzy headed (I forgot to hold ds's hand when we were going into a parking lot!), I knew I was pg. I waited until 18 days pp to take the test, but I knew it was just a formality.

[lovida]

"Fatigue" doesn't BEGIN to describe how I felt a few days after conception. I thought I had the flu or something (it was January)!

[gonnabeamom]

The first real sign was that my dog wouldn't go downstairs for breakfast, but stayed with me until I got up. I didn't figure out this was related to my pregnancy until about a month after I'd known I was pregnant, but when I thought about it, it started around when I must have gotten pregnant.

When TTC I was the queen of psychosomatic symptoms. I had fatigue, breast tenderness, and even nauseau a lot of the time that I wasn't pregnant.

The things that were different when I was pregnant, were a persistent sense of awareness of my uterus, not exactly cramping, but a little bit of fullness, and a feeling of "I'm here. . .I'm here" I think some dizziness, but I can't remember if it came before or after the +.

[beemama]

In re: the incessant burping... I think it's because a hormone released slows your entire digestive system down... causing constipation, cramping, heartburn & gas.

My first symptom was an inability to drink my beloved coffee.... I had EXTREME heartburn, thought for sure it was an ulcer...
and I fell asleep in the car while dh was driving (I'm usually using my "passenger side brake").
and my boobs were, um, bouncy...
and I noticed how bouncy they were every time I had walk to the bathroom to pee(several times an hour).

Now that I'm TTC I have every symptom imaginable each month....even "implantation spotting" .

[KathleenSLP]

Implantation spotting 8-11 DPO.

[Kindermama]

I had heartburn for two nights and I never thought about it until I got the positive test....then looking back, I realized I hadn't had heartburn since my last pregnancy :LOL

with my first pregnancy, I had cramps but my period never showed up!

[fremontmama]

I was soooooo hungry I couldnt stop eating. We were traveling in Europe and had train food, ie salami, bread, chocolate, cheese, water bottles, nutella, crackers. I ate every single thing we had in our bag on a train ride from Vienna to Amsterdam and was still hungry :LOL
Then when we arrived in Amsterdam I noticed my boobs felt very tight and seemed bigger. This was about 1-4 days after conception! I knew right away, which I never thought I would....

[RubyWild]

First I thought my period had started, but later found out that was implantation spotting (which lasted 2-3 days). I became extremely hungry, more easily tired, and my breasts were tender.

This was 2 weeks after conception or what would be considered 4 weeks pregnant.

[mamadawg]

Extreme fatigue here, too. I thought I was sick. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. And then brushing my teeth was impossible without gagging.

Those were the first 2 symptoms before I took the pregnancy test.