Did anyone sense you were pregnant before you told them?

[Sparksi]

I don’t know how this can even happen!

I’m 6 weeks and collected a Chinese takeaway from my local. I always chat with the lady, she’s really lovely. As I was picking up the food she stopped me and said, ‘are you pregnant?’

I’d not mentioned any symptoms or anything to her - totally spooked! She said she could just ‘tell’ and sensed it the last couple of times I’ve been.

Has this happened to anyone else? I wonder how people know or whether it was just an incredibly lucky guess!

My mom!

Can’t go near the woman pregnant. She rumbled me, my sister, my cousin and's her best friend’s daughter.

With DS1, my MIL. We'd driven down there and I had driven because DH had damaged his knee playing football and it was in a cast to keep it straight and he sat across the back seat. I had 3 days of morning sickness and this was one of them and I felt like shit. The traffic was awful because it was absolutely pouring with rain and the journey on the A1 was quite scary. DH grumbled all the way there. It should have taken 2 hours and took almost 4.
We weren't going to tell PIL until I was 12 weeks (I was 8) and we walked in the back door and MIL looked at my face and said 'Are you pregnant' and I burst into tears. She was so lovely to me, sat me down, made me some tea, gave me some ginger cordial 😁and insisted I had a lie down.
I asked her how she knew and she said 'I don't know- your face just looked different somehow.'

I was 5 weeks, went out for friends birthday. She'd invited a bu ch of people, like you do, so I met several for the first time.

As we were leaving, saying goodbyes to people, I realised that one of the women who I didnt know and hadnt particularly spoken to there was pregnant, and she obviously had the same shocked/knowing look as I did. I can't explain it.

I kept bees at the tume, and was a complete magnet for drones whikst pregnant, never experienced it before or after. Pheremones, I guess.

yes my dad suspected I was pregnant apparently before I’d even known.

i went to see my parents on a Saturday, hadn’t done a test yet. Bought one that night and I was pregnant. When I told my mum she said my dad had told her that he’d thought I was pregnant that Saturday.

Also when I went into labour I didn’t want to tell anyone except my H, when I had the baby my mum said my dad had been up pacing the floors the night before (I gave birth at 2 am) as he was convinced I was in labour.

weird

I knee when my aunt was. Just kinda sensed it. And I told her it was a boy... yep she had a girl who at 5 told us he was a boy. He's now named alex

I don't think it's particularly "Mystic Meg" to guess the sex of an unborn baby considering you've got a 50% chance of being correct!

Before I knew I was pregnant with baby 2, my beauty therapist told me I must be pregnant because waxing hurt more than normal.

Days after finding out about baby 3, before we told anyone, a Romany lady, total stranger, chased after us in our local city to tell me I was pregnant.

I live 5000 miles away from home and in touch with friends only on WhatsApp/phone calls.. two separate instances, years apart, out of the blue felt two of my friends were pregnant. Texted them saying you are.. they laughed a bit but came back to me within couple of days saying their pregnancy test was positive 😶‍🌫️ one has a 5 year old and another 3 year old!

I don't know how but I feel I can sense it when someone is pregnant!

Only my cat. She started behaving differently, following me everywhere, wouldn’t go outside without me and licked my stomach at every opportunity from when I was only a few weeks pregnant.

I has this once, a colleague walked in and I had a job that wasn't suitable for someone who was pregnant so I asked if I should give it to John and give her something safer. She hadn't even tested yet... she just instantly looked pregnant to me. Can't exactly explain it.

My MIL guessed that I was pregnant but to be fair I was already 20 weeks! I thought that I could hide it that long because of covid and not seeing each other except through the phone but that clearly didn't work. She instantly gave me the stuffed animal that she had bought a month prior.

Our 50yo chief operating officer.

I went into his office when I was about 6 weeks gone. He fixed his eyes immediately on my breasts (absolutely not something he usually did), then looked sharply at me and said oh!

He knew, and I knew he knew. It was almost like he could smell the change.

After that I took to wearing black round necked t-shirts under boxy coloured blazers. I'm lean and under-endowed in the boob department. Didn't show even in the shower until 20 weeks, I had to tell everyone else at 24 weeks, 🙂

Yes, colleague at work knew in the early weeks.

My mum and dh knew I was pregnant before I took the test. My mum said I just looked different.
I knew my cousin and sil were also pregnant before they announced. I fully understood what my mum meant by they looked different- it seemed like their whole face shape had slightly changed.

They might have known but just not said anything. I knew with a colleague but didn't say anything, it was her news to share if and when she wanted.

(I've also not known until I was told/ they've had an obvious bump for almost everyone else I've known who has been pregnant, so it's no particular power for me)

Yes, obviously. But given the level of blurting and extreme tactlessness exhibited on this thread, that in itself deserves praise. As you say, if someone wants you to know they’re pregnant, they’ll tell you.

@SkankingWombat what did your cat do? This is fascinating

Quite. I knew a colleague was (based, admittedly, on her not having her normal 5 cups of tea a day)....but the decent thing to do is stay quiet until they feel ready to share.

I have sensed it a few times, DSD had a conversation with her father and I about potential infertility when it was blindingly obvious to me that she was very early pregnant. (She was concerned about his reaction.) I couldn’t see it in my own DD, although looking at photos from that time now it’s equally clear.

My uncle knew; my mum asked him how as we hadn't told many people at this point and he told my mum I looked like she did when she was pregnant.
Not sure about my Gran as she had dementia by this point but quite early on she said to my mum'when's your baby due?' and my mum said 'it's not me who's pregnant, it's Judellie.' My aunty was there at the time and this was the first she'd heard of me being pregnant too but I was.
As I say tho, you could read that one either way.

Not me but my gran was an identical twin, when she was pregnant her twin sister ‘knew’ before she did and told her to take a test!

They had lots of strange incidents like that :)