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AIBU?

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to feel pregnant already?

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Galvanized · 16/01/2015 12:22

If we conceived then it was one week ago. My nipples are sore and they are never normally sore. In my yoga gear my tummy looks less toned. I am weeing more than usual I reckon. Am I crazy? Can you feel pregnant only one week after dtd? It is my third pregnancy.

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mummypig3 · 16/01/2015 15:27

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meg76uk · 16/01/2015 15:40

I "knew" this time, from the day. But I suspect that was because it was a bit of an accident and I spent the rest of the day (and thereon) panicked and overly alert to any change at all. I don't think I had genuine symptoms so much as more awareness of my body than usual, and was probably hyper alert to ovulation and implantation pain where normally those things pass by in the course of normal life with little notice.

Meirasa · 16/01/2015 15:55

I just knew, even said it to my friend 5 days after dtd. Had a negative test result and said it to another friend who told me me to do another test as I didn't do pregnancy scares. Due any day now :-) Sometimes you can just know, I've always been pretty in tune with my body which may have helped...

cunexttuesonline · 16/01/2015 17:36

If you conceived one week ago then it would not be implanting until about now, then it takes a while for enough HCG to be produced to have symptoms of pregnancy. However in the 2ww progesterone will give you the same symptoms whether it is a BFP on the way or your period - bloating, sore boobs etc. Hopefully it is a BFP though if that is what you are hoping for! Good luck :)

Pepsiaddict · 16/01/2015 17:41

I knew from about a week after conception. Needed to wee frequently and was exhausted. Remember saying to DH I was either pregnant or ill. BFP 5 days later.

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 16/01/2015 17:42

ilikebaking I was the same. Convinced month after month that I had symptoms and nothing. One month I didn't even bother testing until my period was 4 days late, I knew I wasn't pregnant as I felt completely and utterly normal. BFP.

There is no way your stomach could look different (your uterus doesn't come out from behind your pelvic bone until 12 weeks so no changes in your stomach area will have occurred at this point!). I am willing to believe all the others who 'knew' from symptoms though .

FX for you, I hope you get the outcome you're looking for.

WitchWay · 16/01/2015 18:27

I felt very different from about a week before missing a period - exhausted, very sore huge unlike usual boobs and really thirsty

olympicsrock · 16/01/2015 20:03

Yes I went off tea, and had sore boons before I missed my period.

PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange · 16/01/2015 21:16

I knew a week before each pregnacy even on my 1st.

My body just didn't feel right.

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Galvanized · 18/01/2015 20:45

Still too early to test but totally still feeling it today! Driving myself mad, can't even tell DH as only want to when I'm sure.

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thewavesofthesea · 18/01/2015 22:54

I think you can know! I certainly did, especially with my second. I remember getting really annoyed with the pregnancy tests as I knew I was pregnant, but they were negative! A couple of days later, they were positive though (and the evidence is the rather large 3 year old snoring away in the next room :-)

kittykat7210 · 18/01/2015 23:15

before i even got a positive test (i had taken one which was negative), my boobs had swollen and were hurting quite a bit, that was only 5 days after the sex, it is VERY possible

kittykat7210 · 18/01/2015 23:17

and anyone who says it was period symptoms, I have NEVER had period symptoms in my life, and haven't since, plus i only have like 2 periods a year anyway

NoArmaniNoPunani · 18/01/2015 23:24

We've been TTC for 5 months. Every single one of those months I've felt pregnant and had symptoms. Every single month I've been wrong.

AGnu · 18/01/2015 23:32

I was utterly convinced I wasn't going to get pregnant for months when we first started trying. 7 days after we first DTD deliberately at about the right time I felt a bit funny at a course, got up to go to the loo & just have a moment & by the time I got to the loo I'd gone from feeling mostly fine, but a little odd, to feeling incredibly sick & then sudden stomach cramps. I had the worst diarrhoea I've ever experienced & passed out several times in the 40 minutes it took for someone to come find me. It was so unexpected & unusual that I just knew after that! I took a test several days early & showed it to DH just saying "Told you so!"

DS2, again I convinced myself it'd take months - we were so lucky the first time, no way would we get pregnant on the first cycle again. We did. Again at 7dpo I felt a bit funny. I mentioned to DH that I felt a bit sick, he gave me a knowing look, I told him to stop being ridiculous. No diarrhoea that time but DH was right!

TheNewStatesman · 18/01/2015 23:34

I started sneezing constantly from the day after I conceived (and I do the exact day, with 100% certainty). Every pregnancy is different. I know the blastocyst is microscopically small, but I think the implantation process causes a sudden rush of hormones that can make you feel quite different.

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kbbeanie · 19/01/2015 00:18

Its a hard one. A lot of people say they just 'knew' ive been ttc 6 months now and in those first months i just 'knew' i was pregnant....except 6 months on im still not...i can manage to develop every single symptom of pregnancy but the reality is that the phase after ovulation and before your period can be full of pregnancy like symptoms even if you arent pregnant...its just that you are more aware of things because you are ttc...whereas with my ds i was 12 weeks pregnant before i even realised and i only took a test because my mum convinced me to lol ! Sorry to put a downer on it but i hope you are right and get that bfp ! Good luck x

Glabella · 19/01/2015 08:31

I was horribly sick in my first pregnancy, I was about to be referred for hyperemesis treatment when it went away at 8 weeks. But I started throwing up at 8 days past ovulation. Intractable vomiting is not a normal period symptom, I knew I was pregnant. Tea also tasted like poison, from the day before that.

Misscheifmaker · 19/01/2015 08:45

I knew. It took me many years and ivf to get pregnant with my first. Medically I supposedly cannot get pregnant, my tubes are wrecked .

However despite this I did get pregnant a second time and I just knew. Previously I never bothered tested in all my years of trying. But this time I just knew. Even when I tested early and got a negative I knew that the test was wrong. Went on to get a positive five days later and my little miracle is now here.

My dh thought I had lost the plot though!

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Galvanized · 22/01/2015 15:09

Pretty sure I have implantation bleeding today. My periods are so regular and I'm still not due on. This is maddening.

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kaykayred · 22/01/2015 15:16

I've "known" that I've been pregnant before. I was absolutely, 100% certain. Exhausted, sore boobs (and I never have sore boobs), was feeling a bit sick. Everything. Even with that, there was just something in my head which said "I know it. I'm pregnant". I thought "this must be what people talk about and everything thinks they are crazy".

Period came bang on time. Wasn't pregnant at all.

Sometimes the person is right, sometimes they are wrong.

I don't think there is any special mental feature women have to "know" that they are pregnant or not. I just think sometimes they think they are, then through average of probabilities they are proved right (or not).

I guess if you genuinely think you might be pregnant, then the best thing to do is just stop drinking until you've been proved wrong/right.

And take folic acid! Not going to do you any harm either way right?

WannaBe · 22/01/2015 15:23

agree with kaykayred. For everyone who knew they were pregnant and was there will be a hundred who "knew" they were pregnant and weren't.

I spent long enough on the conception boards to have seen numerous posters come and go, post every month about their symptoms, how they didn't have x and y symptom last month and must be pregnant. I've even seen posters get a period bang on time and question whether they could have had a chemical pregnancy because they were so sure. Reality is that if you want symptoms you will often get them. and a lot of the symptoms of pregnancy are the same as the symptoms before a period.

Fwiw I even missed a period, had symptoms, no positive test though but was told by gp I was almost certainly pregnant and to just keep testing as sometimes these things don't come up on a test. Felt nausious, sore boobs, strange feeling after eating, the lot. Period arrived bang on time the next month, I had just missed a period.

weeblueberry · 22/01/2015 15:39

I'm always really surprised when people say they knew. For me most of my early pregnancy symptoms (and the ones people describe on here) were exactly the same as the ones I get when I'm due my period.

Bit bleak feeling, sore boobs, sore back, exhausted, bloating...

I'm not sure how you distinguish those from normal period crap?

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