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Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Is it possible to feel a pregnancy 'sign' at conception or just after?

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fifitot · 06/10/2008 20:22

You can tell me I'm mad if you like but just wondering as tried really hard to get pg this month and think I only OVd yesterday but have done loads of bding. Since yesterday my nipples are soooooooooo sore. This isn't usual.

Is it possible I would feel something so extremely early or am I just mad?

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merryberry · 07/10/2008 14:04

i did both times. but then i can tell you exactly when my period is coming etc, i really pick up the nuances i guess. i also know every month when i ovulate, which side, sometimes both sides at slightly different sides. thankfully (i'm lazy!) not twins to show for that scary proposition. with both dc's, i felt an odd difference in myself the next day both times, best described as a bit spacey in my case. I guess it's possible that the normal progesterone blast you are getting from the corpus luteum is a bit higher, if you've fertilised the egg and got a blastocyst travelling to implant. Oh, and I felt implantation both times, lasted a few days on and off. ONce that had happened, it was all go go go for increasing spaciness until it tipped over into pg sickness...yuk

TinkerBellesMum · 07/10/2008 13:45

I was listening to someone talking about knowing things, like when you think about someone and then the phone rings. They were saying when you think of all the people you might think about during the day who don't call you but the one that rings you you remember. Or meeting someone in the street you were thinking about, the chances of meeting someone you know when you go shopping are actually really high and again you were probably thinking about a lot of people but only remembered them because you met them.

londonlottie · 07/10/2008 12:30

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TinkerBellesMum · 07/10/2008 11:39

We knew with Tink before we did it. We discussed it first as we knew where I was in my cycle and we'd already discovered we are both that fertile.

You won't get symptoms for another week yet though at the very earliest.

I agree with Bluebutterfly. I bet many women get things happening in the second half of their cycle that they notice and think "is it" then their period comes and they forget about it. Early pregnancy symptoms are similar to the symptoms you would normally get around the same stage anyway.

anniemac · 07/10/2008 11:20

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electra · 07/10/2008 11:09

Meant to say that with dd2 I didn't have any signs at all, but I had a dream where someone was telling me I was pregnant so I did a test and it was positive. By that time I was about 7 weeks.

electra · 07/10/2008 11:07

With this pregnancy I had what I think was an implantation bleed and then two days later I woke up and had an immediate wave of nausea which felt like morning sickness. At that point I felt that something seemed odd.

uglybugly · 07/10/2008 10:59

To be honest, I never had any 'signs' - or any that I would have been aware of until I saw that line on my pg test. I was late, hoping against hope that I was pregnant but also being scared shiteless that I was (age, tests, long gap between first, previous probs).

It was only when I saw the blue line then I got the whole range of symptoms including itchy sore boobs, nausea, overwhleming narcolepsy, feeling like I could eat the contents of my fridge in one sitting. I am convinced now that symptoms are psychsomatic. My friend didn't find out she was pg until 22 weeks, and the only thing she said she felt was a 'bit odd'

anniemac · 07/10/2008 10:45

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mellyonion · 07/10/2008 09:40

(meant to add, that i've never felt the pop before or since...odd? moi? )

mellyonion · 07/10/2008 09:39

blue butterfly..

i completely agree with what you are saying...i'm just speculating about me ovulating at that popping moment...i have no idea what it was....but i know i got pg that very same night!.....i have just sent the proof off to school!

i also agree that only a pregnancy test can tell you for sure that you're pg....but, even without any physical symptoms at the very start, i had a very strong intuitive feeling that i was pg each time that i was.

beanieb · 07/10/2008 08:46

stayinbed - if you were already nine weeks then you probably conceived the cycle before

beanieb · 07/10/2008 08:44

It's unlikely - it can take a week or more after ovulation for the egg ro implant and it's only at that point that the 'pregnancy hormones' are released.

The fertilised egg has a long journey after Ovulation.

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SpandexIsMyEnemy · 07/10/2008 08:19

well my nan swears blind she knew every time she was PG the day after the deed on account of her throwing up literally every 2 mins all the time. this was some 50 years ago thou.

macaco · 07/10/2008 08:14

well, some people do supposedly get ovulation pain, remember learning about it in biology.

Bluebutterfly · 07/10/2008 08:00

melly, I don't want to sound too critical, but I think that if people could "feel" themselves ovulating then getting pg would be close to an exact science. I don't know what the "pop" was for you but unless you are in fact a chicken, i doubt you were laying an egg... Yes, mad (you said it, first)

anniemac · 06/10/2008 21:31

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Bluebutterfly · 06/10/2008 21:11

meant "too much" and also meant to add:

don't want to be pessimistic - just letting you know my experience. I hope you are right, though - good luck!

Bluebutterfly · 06/10/2008 21:09

I tried to conceive no.2 for a long time and "saw" early symptoms that weren't there (or I was just hyper-aware of pre menstrual symptoms that I didn't normally pay that much attention to). Then I would get my period.

Until I didn't.

The only symptom for me for an actual "positive" result was a very late period. And two positive pregnancy tests.

Because it took so long to get pg, I eventually decided to ignore (in particular) the following:

breast tenderness
lethargy
mild nausea
mild cramping

These are all pgy symptoms but they are more usually signs that AF is about to arrive. So it is best to not read to much into them until your period is REALLY late. Then do a pg test.

Otherwise you will be torturing yourself each month.

fifitot · 06/10/2008 21:00

ladytophamhatt - I can't find your post. What did it say?

Anyway - thanks for the replies. Keep them coming, really curious on how people 'knew'.

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pickie · 06/10/2008 20:56

Same here, I just knew! I said the day after I am pregnant, DH yeh right, 3 weeks later, two lines

WriggleJiggle · 06/10/2008 20:50

Yes, I knew instantly, well the next morning. I don't know how, but I just knew.

stayinbed · 06/10/2008 20:47

i had noticed my belly popped out so i tried to eat very little for two days to make it go away. it didnt work so i told dh 'i must be pg'. he said 'you probably have gas'. about a week later he asked, 'so are you pg?' i told him ihadn't checked since he said it was gas. that day i bought a test, indeed i was pg. i went to the doctor the next day, i was already 9 weeks!!

mellyonion · 06/10/2008 20:44

i'm mad too...i felt a kind of "pop" when got pg with my dc1...i'm sure it was me ovlating...i just knew...

i also had a very sure feeling with dc2 almost within hours after...

i knew too when i conceived with dc3.....not anything i coul put my finger on at all, just a strong feeling......

i was right every time!

hope you get the resut you're after....

ladytophamhatt · 06/10/2008 20:37

fifitot, we x posts....look at my post just before yours.