What were your first signs of pregnancy?

[justhayley]

Hiya I'm hoping to be pregnant - testing on wednesday.
Until then I'm symptom spotting
Apart from Late AF, sore boobs, sickness and exhaustion did you have any other pregnancy signs?

My DS is 13 months and I didn't really have any signs with him till I was about 7 weeks.

First time with DS - felt tired in a spaced out, dreamy kind of way and very cold (well it was December!). It was needing to wee ALL THE TIME that made me realise I might need to poas before getting stuck into xmas party season!

Second time (ended up mc ) - just feeling very tired again

Third time (31 weeks and counting atm!) - Finding myself standing in front of the fridge eating slices of cooked ham out of the packet and not being able to stop. And I don't even really like ham (or meat!) all that much, and in fact have barely touched it the rest of pg lol

Good luck with poas tomorrow OP!

Sense of smell and very very vivid dreams. I remember how I (silently) judged my colleague at work for putting so much perfume on. Few days later when I got BFP I realised it was me and my sense of smell, not her .

Apparently my assistant knew before me when I asked for tea in the morning rather than my usual double espresso for three mornings on the run. She was waiting for over a week before I twigged what was up!

With DS1, I went right off tomatoes. The texture made me gag. Went out and bought a test and, yep, it was positive.

With DS2, before I could even test positive on the early tests, coffee and chocolate gave me incredible heartburn. Coffee I could live with, but chocolate? That was so unfair!

Light bleeding a week too early for af and really, really sensitive gums when brushing my teeth - nearly binned my brand new electric toothbrush until I put two and two together

The sign I missed with DS1, which only made sense afterwards is that I felt really ill and thought I had a water infection. I couldn't stop weeing and was crampy and tired - plus I was bleeding lots. I thought I was ramping up to a pretty awful period.

Another one here who 'just knew'.

I was also wierdly constipated.

I was charting and am also a total POAS addict (bought about 100 of the cheapy tests on eBay for about £2 and got through about 30 despite getting PG first go - even when I'd got the BFP I kept doing them just to watch them get darker!)

The sore boobs came later - around 3 weeks after conception, and the sickness hit hard at 7 weeks.

The only symptom I can think of is that my skin smelt like hot butterkist popcorn (the toffee kind) which I never eat. I've since heard from a couple of others that had this as well.

Sense of smell - I had implantation spotting with DD1 too.
I had fertility drugs to conceive our youngest. I knew I was pg because I had not had such a long luteal phase before [I was a chart demon]

Great thread! Each time I've had a slightly spaced out feeling, sensitive breasts and couldn't stand the smell of freshly ground coffee. This last symptom was what alerted me to my ahem surprise pregnancy ( I know people claim there is no such thing...), I bought a test as soon as I realised and there was the line [smie].

obv!

I needed to pee lots, had a week of random cramps and had the worst heartburn/indigestion. Never get heartburn EVER so I knew something was up!

I went off tea and was very thirsty. The smell of coffee made me want to vomit with ds2.
With ds1 my ear really itched and I had the worse headache Ive ever had.

extreme tiredness and feeling over emotional

Going off coffee, needing to wee more, sensitive nips and feeling pregnant

#1 - felt sick and like someone was massaging my boobs way too hard (at about 4dpo)! Rolls of nausea until a test went positive and then until 13wks.

#2 - felt like I had the flu from about 7dpo. Shaky, sick, exhausted, just horrid. Continued to feel ill (rather than just nauseous) t/o first tri.

#1 was a girl and #2 a boy so interested to see if #3 will fit the pattern when we have him/her!

Inability to finish my glass of wine (not usually a problem...)

Intense loathing of coffee and nutella (chocolate in general but especially nutella)

YY to superhuman sense of smell - I was once woken up by someone who had eaten garlic who was sleeping in another room!!

I had a faint metallic taste in my mouth about 5 or 6 days before I was due on my period. I also had a few mild weird cramps that felt a bit like very mild period pains but were about a week earlier than they should have been. I was convinced I was pregnant though so was looking out for signs.

I spent the whole day beforetesting being inexplicably furious with partner. I was literally sitting indoors all day muttering about how crap he was and generally avoiding him. I cheered myself up with a lovely whiskey, which was probably a mistake in hindsight Looking back, I had a migraine a couple of days after conception, but that was pretty much it for me.

Hi,

I had the usual nausea, tiredness boobs that felt they were on fire but I also got a blocked nose and weird food aversions!

Good luck, don't be disspondant if it is negative, wait a try again!

Very sudden and strong urges to go to the loo.

This was early as it was in the first week of our honeymoon; I kept having to dash off to wee behind bushes. Although I knew I'd be ovulating on or around our wedding day I didn't think we'd really manage it, but when that happened I started to cut down on my alcohol and bought some folic acid just in case...

A craving for cheese and pickle sandwiches.
I'd ofrgotten about the metallic taste.

Also sobbing whenever I saw certain adverts, especially the dog one where the man says 'Bad dog?bad food?bad home? etc

I cried every time I saw this for weeks, no pregnancy required!