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.

[LittleMissSnowShine]

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!

[BubaMarra]

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 .

[AbyCat]

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!

[ouryve]

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!

[MightBeMad]

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

[ouryve]

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.

[Glup]

Another one here who 'just knew'.

I was also wierdly constipated.

[Pyrrah]

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.

[JennySense]

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]

[Perspective21]

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].

[Perspective21]

obv!

[Frizz1986]

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!

[Thechick]

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.

[Xmasbaby11]

extreme tiredness and feeling over emotional

[pumpkinsweetie]

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

[rockerrock]

#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!

[EvidenceBasedMum]

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!!

[shufflehopstep]

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.

[BookTart]

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.

[Tigglettchic]

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!

[EugenesAxe]

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...

[redexpat]

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

[woozlebear]

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!