Are you an intuitive mama?

[mama2jonah]

How many of you 'just knew' you were pregnant from conception or soon thereafter? What told you that you were pregnant before you had outside confirmation? Who suspected they were pregnant but weren't sure until the positive pg test? How many of you had no clue?

[ladylee]

I felt the burst of energy right at the moment of conception!

[mama2jonah]

Me too ladylee! I havn't missed my period yet, but I know that either I won't get it, or if I do, I will be losing a pregnancy. That's actually happened before.

[Megs Mom]

We got pg the first month trying, and I was pretty sure we had succeeded, but I can't say I actually felt conception happening.

[Journey]

Well, with my first, I was in denial, as I was quite young, but we knew a few days before I missed my period as my breasts were soooo sore.

With my second, I knew *before* conception! LOL! DH and I had been going without birth control for a couple months. Kind of "whatever happens, happens..." method. Well, DH and I were getting frisky, and I told him if he didn't want a daughter in 9 months, he should go grab a condom... otherwise we were going to conceive right then. He didn't get the condom... 9 months later I gave birth to a beautiful little girl. That's the only time I made such a prediction.

With this pregnancy, I knew when baby implanted, although I was again in denial. DH and I had seperated for a few months, and had just gotten back together a couple weeks prior to conception. Things were still rocky, although I knew that we'd stay together. The timing was rough. I had just started charting my cycles regularly while DH and I were seperated, and I had gotten fit for a diaphram. I figured I'd have plenty of time to adjust and abstain while we were separated. Turns out, we discovered I'm allergic to the foam and gels. Great. So, we got some condoms (Trojan, unlubricated as lubrication irritates me as well), and they broke. *sigh* I don't like condoms... they always seem to break. Anyways, I'm just going on a tangent here...

Well, a few days after conception of this little one, I noticed my temperatures doing something they'd never done before... raised a second time. They were higher than they'd been in previous cycles, and I wasn't sick at this time (I thought I was sick when my temp raised the first time, but now I think it was just my body reacting to the dividing cells of baby). I looked up some information on this, and discovered that many women experience a second temp rise when the baby implants... so then I knew... yep, we were going to have another baby.

What's funny is right after DD #2 was born, I told DH that we'd conceive a boy in December 2001. DH said he'd stay away from me that month (and he did!). But... first month thereafter, this one was conceived, and I'm convinced it's the boy soul that's been waiting to arrive.

[GruppieGirl]

My mother had a Hysterectomy and I went to spend time with her at the hospital. Her room was right across from the nursery. Her goal was to walk to the nursery to look at the babies. As I was leaving the hospital the nurse jokingly said to me, "see you next year." We were on the pill so there was no chance of that.

On the ride home I stopped to get a pregnancy test. I don't remember thinking about it. It just happened. I had not yet missed my period

That was almost two and a half years ago. My beautiful little dd came through loud and clear. Even then. :love


I couldn't vote on the poll.

[mama2jonah]

Averysmom, how interesting! My sil always tells me I'm pg before I've even missed a period, and she's usually right. She says she can 'see it in my face'. She thinks I'm pg now, which only confirms what I already have suspicioned.

[lexbeach]

What a neat topic! I knew right away too. I even knew before we tried that I would get pregnant, and that I would have twins! Perhaps it's a coincidence, but it felt intuitive, and I was right! I started to feel sick, nauseaous, hungry and tired, about three days post-conception, so my intuition was quickly confirmed. People told me that my symptoms were just psycho-symatic, but I knew it was real.

I am curious about mamas' intuitions about their babies' genders . . . Did anyone know before it was possible to?

[mama2jonah]

Lexbeach, I am the same way! About 2 or three days after the deed, I knew. I still haven't missed my period yet, but I feel so sure of myself that I told my sister that just maybe...

After two pregnancies, you're pretty familiar with how it feels. I just hope I don't have an early miscarriage because of how much ds nurses still. That has happened to me before.

[lisamarie]

With my ds, I just knew immediately after conception. In fact, it happened the 1st time we tried (sunday) and by friday, I was having nausea, etc. Took an at home test and it was too early so it was negative. Went to the midwives office the next week for a blood test and again, too early so it was negative. Had to WAIT another 3 wks. and by that time, my breasts were beginning to hurt and it came out POSITIVE!:baby

Regarding the sex, we never found out what we were having. But in my 1st trimester it felt like my ds was speaking to me and telling me he was a little precious boy. I never doubted. My midwife, even during labor, thought he was a girl from the heart tones. Mothers intuition~such an amazing thing!:thumb

Warmly~

Lisa:heartbeat

[Heavenly]

I knew pretty much right away and at 2 days past ovulation I had a dream that told me that my little belly bean is a girl! With my son I also knew pretty much right away. I don't seem to ever be wrong about this!

[zipworth]

Last month, I was convinced I was pregnant - I told my mom and my dh. I felt kind of dumb when AF came right on schedule.:( . I am 10 dpo, and I am confused, because I was so sure last time ! Isn't tere anyone as confused as I am ??

[mama2jonah]

zipworth, have you ever been pg before? Until you feel it, it's easy to mistake pms symptoms for pregnancy.

If you have been pg and you know exactly what it feels like, then maybe you were pg for a little while last month but didn't have a successful implantation. You could have lost a fertilized egg with AF. That actually happens more than people realize.

[zipworth]

Hi, no I have never been pregnant before, despite many birth control screw ups:rolleyes: . Which makes me worried I will have trouble ttc, since all of my friends got pregnant while on birth control. Sorry, I know that's off-topic. I guess I am not as intuitive as I thought.

[gugu]

Hi,

with my first one, there were two connected Butterflys sitting on my knee while I was holding a friends baby and I thought that would be a nice sign, for a pregnancy. And two week later I had a positive test.

Now, a few weeks ago my ds stopt nursing, standing up in front of me and started kissing my belly and I thought what nice way to greet your sister. And I started to do hpt like crazy. And two week later, there was a positive one.

Gudrun with Anthony :bgbounce (05/31/00) and :love (ca. 05/01/03)

[birthinglau]

these stories are so sweet. makes me feel all mushy.

did anyone's partner predict? my dh (at that time fiance) told me we were pregnant the night we concieved, and that we would have a daughter. I knew too, and was secretly wanting it to happen, but was in denial b/c our relationship was in upheaval, and we weren't living together. I talked myself out of it when I began having pain in one fallopian tube, thinking that all the signs were just because I had just come off bc pills, and maybe my ovaries were growings cysts now. i had a neg hpt too....

he remained convinced. eventually I was too.

our daughter was born in march. :)

-Lau

[Mothernature]

I always know before I miss a cycle. My breasts are tender and I have less energy than usual. This time since I am still nursing Zen I noticed a tingly sensation in my breasts way before I noticed the tenderness. I was seriously in denial because we were on vacation and I really wanted to play while we were there. When we got home and I still didn't get a period I had no doubt. Dh asked me on a scale of 1-10 how sure I was and I said about an 8 (I was thinking more like a 10, but I wanted to allow a little room for error.)

[Mothernature]

I just wanted to add that I told dh we would conceive if we didn't use a condom that day and he chose not to. I looked him in the eyes and said, "I guess February is a nice month to have a baby." I must not have been doing my math very well, because this one is due Jan. 24.

[kinsey43]

mothernature - Jan 24 is a wonderful day to be born :D it's MY bday!!

I knew the day after we conceived - no physical signs, I just *knew*. I waited to test, so that I wouldn't get a false neg, but I still made sure to test before I missed my period, so that I would know my knowledge had come purely from intuition rather than from physical cues.

I also knew from about a month into the pregnancy that we would be welcoming a son into the world. Thank goodness, otherwise dh's choices for a girl's name would really have caused me some stress. Since I knew ds would be a boy, I was pleased w/our agreement that I could name a boy, dh could name a girl. Sneaky? Well, he should have listened when I told him we were having a boy! :thumb

[ecomommy]

Oh, I like this topic!

For my DD, I knew it was time to conceive her. This feeling just came on so I stopped taking the pill and we were pregnant that month. I always thought she was a girl. Everyone else was sure was a boy because of the way I was carrying and the heart beat.

For baby #2, I pretty much knew that if we had sex that day, we'd conceive. We did but lost him at 6 weeks.

But he decided that he wanted to come back the very next month! Our midwife said we should probably wait a couple months before trying again. I was charting and knew that I was on the edge and that getting pregnant that day was possible. I told DH that we might want to get a condom. We didn't. I ovulated 3 days later on Thanksgiving. I even passed on the Brie "just in case" that day so I guess I knew but I was in serious denial. I hadn't worked though losing our baby so I was busy painting the bathroom for two days before I decided if was finally time to take a pregnancy test. It was positive. Baby #3 is due in August.

I was sure that this baby was a girl for two reasons: 1. I have always thought that I'd have four children, girl, boy, girl, boy (probably twins) and so I thought that the baby I lost was the boy and that we were onto out next girl and 2. I had read that book about choosing the gender (not that I care either way) and so I thought with 3 days between sex and conception, it had to be a girl.

Wrong! It was pretty obvious on the ultrasound that there are boy parts!

Ann
Mommy to Aine 3/5/01, ^i^Phoenix 11/8/02, baby boy 8/20/03

[indigolilybear]

I didn't *know* but my subconscious told me! LOL. Both times I had a dream around implantation that I was pregnant. :) W/dd the dream was quite "new-age"-y and w/ds, it was very matter of fact. I had to get the baby....and woke up thinking, "What baby??". LOL. In fact, w/dd, dh also had a dream I was pregnant....that we took a preg. test and it was positive.

Also, both times, esp. w/dd, I dreamed almost exclusively of their sexes. DD was always a girl in my dreams.

[its_our_family]

With my son...I had NO idea! Since we weren't trying or anticipating it at all it was a bit of a shock :eek

But when I stopped and thought back about it....I know when we conceived.

this might be really really silly but I call it coneption sex....it happened with ds and this time too. It was that OMG!! :jaw type sex and its like you just know..."If I'm pregnant this month....this is the time that did it!"

i still wasn't sure until about 4 days before af was due I was feeling wonderful! My pms stuff has been screwy since the m/c I had had nausea and everything else as soon as O...but this poast month that didn't happen. I was feeling so good and then the hotflashes started...and I knew!

I guess maybe that is one reason that I was shocked but kind of "knew" that I was going to lose Sweetpea....we didn't have "conception sex" In fact we have NO idea how it happened!

[Stacymom]

Fun topic!

With dd, I was a little surprised to find out I was pregnant. We were actively ttc, but I thought that cycle had been a waste because I was sick when I o'd etc. We never had a question in our minds that she was a girl- it was just something that we knew all along.

With this pregnancy, I knew the day we conceived that if we had sex that night, that I would get pregnant. We did, and I did. :D (DH still gives me a hard time about this, because I didn't tell him about it until about a week later. He jokes that he would have stayed away from me that night if he was given a choice...) But, witht his pregnancy,we both thought it was a boy until the the u/s. It took us a week or so to get over the surprise.

[Viola]

This time around I really thought I was pregnant, but I always figure it is wishful thinking so I don't really embrace it until I get that positive test. With my first pregnancy, I didn't think it was possible for me to get pregnant even though we were trying, because I didn't know that getting pregnant the first month would be so easy. I read that Girlfriend's Guide book, and one interesting thing she did say was that she knew plenty of women who were pregnant right around the time they were convinced they were going to get their periods. I had pre-period symptoms like sore breasts which are also pregnancy symptoms, but it felt like it felt every month, so I didn't know.

I took a test right around the time I was supposed to get my period, and it was negative. We were out shopping the next day and I remember running to the bathroom, convinced my period had started. When I pulled down my pants and saw that there was no blood, just vaginal moisture, I knew then that I was pregnant. So I took a test the next day and it was positive. :)

[Mallory]

I knew both times before actually missing a period, within a few days of conception.

I also have missed periods or been late before when I was not pregnant and not taken test or really worried because I was sure I was not pregnant.

So so far I have know about as soon as I was pregnant, and never thought I was when I was not.