What does it actually feel like to be pregnant

For me I feel very hungover - sick, can't think, headache, want to eat but everything makes me feel sick, out of sorts etc

Was dog tired, couldn’t keep my eyes open. Felt so queasy - especially after anything with milk so cereal or cups of tea. Really bad period pains without a period.

My first baby I knew at conception. Sounds mad but I just knew. I thought " I'm pregnant " and I was right. Second baby I hadn't got a clue. It wasn't until I started with morning sickness really badly ( I didn't have sickness with the first) that It even occurred to me I might be pregnant.

This might not make sense to anyone but when I'm happy, I feel like my face is buzzing. I felt that in the early stages of both pregnancies before the nausea/ chronic constipation started

Nothing, not a single symptom. Still had ‘periods’. When they stopped I was 7 weeks out with DS1 (so my 12 week scan rapidly became the 20 week scan) and only not out with DS2 because the midwife remembered me from DS1 and sent me for an ‘early scan’ where it turned out I was 13 weeks.

I knew a few days before my period was due all three times. Sore breasts with visible blue veins, a metallic taste in my mouth, and with DC3 ridiculously early morning all day sickness. The tests were only confirming what I already knew.

As for what pregnancy feels like, I didn't enjoy any of it even though apart from constant sickness up to 20 weeks I had easy pregnancies.

I had sore breasts and weeing more often from the week before my period was due every month anyway. With ds1 I got visible blue veins on my breasts but nothing with the others. Then nausea and vomiting would suddenly kick in around week 6.

Well in my case I had Hyperemesis so I was vomiting 30+ times per day and in & out of hospital multiple times per week. However in terms of the baby itself, no I didn't feel anything at all. Not until the kicks & wiggles began later on. You don't feel it. When your bump is there, you just feel even fatter than normal

I didn’t even consider I was pregnant because we didn’t think it could happen naturally.

I did feel very… odd. I kept zoning out, staring at walls. I also began having vivid dreams and started being really forgetful which is not like me. I also suddenly couldn’t watch anything violent on TV which again, is not like me. I thought I was having a breakdown as I had just taken on extra responsibilities at work. I noticed my period was late, but put it down to stress. I remember one morning being able to smell the bananas in the kitchen as I came downstairs and feeling I was going to throw up. The smell was so strong!

At ten days late, I did a pregnancy test with the thought I would just rule it out, then go to the doctor’s and say ‘something is wrong’. I was clearly heading for some sort of breakdown, I thought. I did the pregnancy test, and it gave a strong positive immediately…

Had extremely easy pregnancies. Tired for the first while, then absolutely no issues at all, also not young, be considered geriatric. Didn't feel this crazy emotional bond with the bump, loved feeling the movements, probably always a little on edge that everything was OK, no singing or talking to bump. I enjoyed being pregnant but I'm sure heavily impacted by fact that they were so easy.

Gas

Like you've eaten a really big dinner

DH knew I was pregnant before I did. He said I smelled different.

I knew before taking a test with my first.
With my second, I was more convinced there were signs when ttc but got negative tests. I was quite surprised when i got a positive, because I was expecting a negative.

I had tested negative on the Friday morning but by Friday evening I began having a growing discomfort in my very lower abdomen. I can compare it to constipation pains or the full/ uncomfortable feeling of a full bladder (though I didn't need to wee). I then realised it was my uterus, which felt like it was a slowly expanding balloon. By midnight I had my legs propped up and wide apart due to the discomfort. I wrote in my ttc journal "I think I'm pregnant", and I tested positive the next morning.

That blown-up balloon in my uterus feeling stayed for the first trimester, along with pinching / itchiness in the uterus, especially when I bent forward.

Now at 29 weeks, it's a heavy feeling below my belly button, sort of like there's a mass in there dragging my muscles and ligaments downwards. My belly often feels hard, depending on where baby is lying.

My periods were late by a couple of days, my breasts felt sensitive and I had a strange taste in my mouth. Just knew I was pregnant before taking the test every time I got pregnant

No notable symptoms for me other than a cold with first pregnancy or this one other than a bit or tiredness. Around the 8 week mark with DS1 I definitely bloody felt it. I didn't realise how hard pregnancy was first time around. Hopefully this one is a bit better. On the plus side, the ending is totally worth it ❤️

We struggled for 18 years to get pregnant and I'd longed over the years to know what it felt like to carry a life inside you.
Currently 15 weeks and to be honest it feels absolutely no different . I've had zero symptoms and if I hadn't of seen the baby with my own eyes on the scan I wouldn't believe I'm pregnant at all

Throwing up multiple times in the morning and being nauseous until at least lunchtime was my give away. It was that way for the whole of the first trimester and into the second. Both times.

At first, overwhelming tiredness and sore boobs. Then, at around 6 weeks, I started to feel nauseous.

sore boobs, went off chocolate and then started throwing up, went to Boots for some PeptoBismol and on reading the instructions it said do not take if pregnant, FINALLY, the penny dropped😆

I got a rash under my wedding ring each time before my positive test. Also nausea & excruciating boob pain

I experienced an unusual metallic taste in my mouth. And a few days after that a loss of appetite and some nasty morning sickness.
Nothing had kicked in at the time I took the test though- I felt completely normal at that point.

Yup I knew I was pregnant before I missed a period.

Everyone is different but for me being pregnant is fucking hell. I get pelvic girdle pain, diabetes, overly emotional and fucking exhausted. It's horrible horrible horrible the whole time

I had very strong pregnant symptoms before I did the test on both of my pregnancies. So the test was just the final confirmation

Full of love and like I had the whole world and precious cargo inside of me. That and my boobs hurt and I needed constant chocolate buttons for the mild nausea.

Sadly lost that baby at 12 weeks and 13 years later still no baby. I think I'm almost as sad about not experiencing a full pregnancy as I am about not having children.