What does it actually feel like to be pregnant

[Louloubaker]

I have never been pregnant before and I know everyone is different but out of curiosity did you know you was pregnant before you did a test? Did you feel significantly different or did you feel nothing at all?

I feel like I’m pretty in tune with my body and would notice any slight change in anything 🤣 but who knows I don’t know what I’m looking for.

I kept looking for symptoms whilst we were TTC, then the only things during my TWW when I was actually pregnant was sore boobs (which I had every month from basically the day after ovulation anyway) and my sex drive was non existent 😂 poor DH, it wasnt like I just wasn't in the mood I was just completely dead to it at all 😂 so I guess the lack of symptoms was a symptom in itself but honestly you can drive yourself so mad looking into it all 😂 I had stopped tracking symptoms at that point.

Any other symptoms didn't really start til about 7/8 weeks for me.

I felt like I knew , but it was the first month trying and I could have been kidding myself.

I have had two accidents before that (sadly mcs) but I also felt like I just knew?

However, I havnt had to go through the battle of ttc for a long period so I'm not sure if that can unfortunately dampen the spirits.
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p.s. I am a low symptom pregnant person aha. About to pop now and never been sick or had all the usual things from the movies . I'm pretty normal with the odd things here or there !

I knew because at 11DPO my boobs felt hard, I felt nauseous and my temperature had stayed high after ovulation, and then rose again to a level higher than it had been for 18 months previously when I tracked for contraception. Sadly I also knew then when I wasn't pregnant anymore when the symptoms went and my temperature dropped. But it took 6 more days to start bleeding.

A surprising number of women don't know they're pregnant until they actually go into labour.

Me - I had no idea until I missed a period and did a test. For the most part, I would describe pregnancy as "uncomfortable"

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.

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

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 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.

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

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😆

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

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.

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

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 ❤️

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

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.

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.

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

Gas

Like you've eaten a really big dinner

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.

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…

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 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.

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.