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Pregnancy - what symptoms and when?

44 replies

Moomin · 16/09/2003 14:46

Yes, I know there are a million thread containing this info but I just want to see a list of other people's symptoms and when they got them. It's silly I know but I feel better reading the whole variety of things that can happen and whether you were aware of being pg straight away or in ignorant bliss!
I've made myself feel a bit better this month. With dd, I was convinced I'd had sore boobs from 10 days after conception so I've been waiting for this to happen. Found an old calendar the other day and I didn't actually get sore boobs until week 5 and then tested week 6, so there's hope for me this month yet, maybe.
Boobs are tender but not desperately sore but I'm SO tired it's untrue. Went to bed for an hour yesterday afty and slept with dd sitting next to me watching Jungle Book. Talk about unfit mother! Due for AF tomorrow.
Come on then, please: what symptoms and when?!

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Grommit · 17/09/2003 16:31

I did a test 2 days before my period was due and it was strongly positive

Nerthus · 17/09/2003 16:24

When is the earliest anyone has done a pregnancy test and got a positive result? It's extraordinary that there is only a physical distance of about an inch or so between one little line of blue ink and the other, yet it feels as if it's about a million miles.

bunny2 · 17/09/2003 14:35

Lots of discharge , overwhelming tirednes, twingy period-type pains where all very early symptoms this time. All before 6 wks. Good luck Moomin and Quacks.

codswallop · 16/09/2003 20:00

Oh and i lost weight in the first few months not sickness - just inexplicable

codswallop · 16/09/2003 19:59

I had horrendous congestion that lasted for 8 weeks when pg with ds3 - I sounded like i had a peg on the end of my nose.

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Moomin · 16/09/2003 19:56

Wow! I lost 2 and a half pounds at WW!! Can't believe it because, as I said before, I feel really fat and bloated. Have thought of something else after reading some of these symptoms below: I've got loads of bogies up my nose!!! Sorry - this is sooo gross!
I hope I AM bloody preggers - god knows what's wrong with me if I'm not!!! But I'm NOT going to do an early test. I'll wait until Friday or Saturday................ (probably...)

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fisil · 16/09/2003 18:55

c 1 1/2 weeks after conception I could no longer wear my contact lenses. I thought it was due to being busy, tired etc, but it lasted throughout pg and is apparently not uncommon. At about the same time my boss cracked a silly joke and I burst into tears. When I told her later on that I was pg, she said she knew from that moment, cos it was so unlike me! All sounds like tiredness, really.

Egypt · 16/09/2003 18:50

oh yes and increas in creamy white discharge mmmmmmm, lovely. not so much now (5 1/2 wks)

Egypt · 16/09/2003 18:48

Had temp rise 2 days past ov.
V V tired
Sore boobs almost immediately after conception. feel bruised and getting lumpier and harder by the day.
Squeezed nipples one week past ov and clear fluid came out - shocking!
twinges in tummy, like sharp pains, expecially when stand up
very hungry
stuffy nose?!!
thinks thats all.

quackers · 16/09/2003 17:20

Just been discussing on ttc thread as I'm having many symptoms but too early to know for sure if I am pg. I have very tingly boobs and the nipples are enlarged with those glands and little fluid came out yesterday but nothing since. I have twinges constantly and had a small pink spotting yesterday (day21), so who knows, a couple more days or so I think! Temps all over the place though, so not counting on anything!! Good luck all,xxxx

scoobysnax · 16/09/2003 17:15

sore boobs, alcohol tasting wrong, cravings for fruit juice in middle of night...

Azure · 16/09/2003 17:12

I initially had almost no symptoms, apart from what I assume were implantation aches (I'm sure there is a more technical word) - like mild period pains. I have also felt extremely tired, but then I normally do and moved house last week, which didn't help. The queasiness is just starting now. Best of luck, Moomin.

twiglett · 16/09/2003 16:37

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Moomin · 16/09/2003 16:33

Thanks twiglett. Our posts must have crossed - just read yours. Was perhaps thinking that the tiredness was down to being on a diet... but I haven't been especially "good" this week, so I haven't starved myself as such. I've felt very hungry - the type of hunger you get before or on a period, like you HAVE to have something stodgy. And I also feel bloated. I've got a weigh-in in about an hour and I'm convinced I won't have lost any weight. If anything, I feel fatter than last week! This is so frustrating: all of my "symptoms" could quite easily be attributed to being on a diet and/or being pre-menstrual. AGHH!

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Angeliz · 16/09/2003 16:30

i went off coffee STRAIGHT away,,weed alot,,,and got car sick

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Moomin · 16/09/2003 16:28

Nerthus - I know there's an increase in vaginal discharge of one description or another, not sure it could be described as mucus, though. How lovely!

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twiglett · 16/09/2003 16:27

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ThomCat · 16/09/2003 16:21

V early signs for me:
Nasty metallic taste in your mouth
Very hard to brush teeth without gagging
large tender boobs

Nerthus · 16/09/2003 15:44

Good luck Moomin, I hope you are pregnant!

I was wondering about early pregnancy symptoms too, most particularly whether one gets any increase in cervical mucus at the beginning of pregnancy. Does anyone know?