No symptoms?

[Lego80]

I'm new to this! I'm 8 weeks plus 5. I found out I was pregnant as I was too impatient to wait after my period was accuse of days late. The only symptoms I had were tender breasts. I worrying now as at my first midwife appointment she told me to expect nausea and being dog tired at least. I still haven't experienced any symptoms. I had a metallic taste for one day which could be down ti the fact I had a cold. Now my only symptom has abated in worried that maybe their is something wrong with the baby. We were both on anti malarials when we conceived. Am I just worrying unnecessarily?

Probably.

I had no symptoms throughout other than severe depression which hit in the third trimester due to the hormones and a small amount of tailbone pain that I didn't link until much later as being related to my pg

Healthy happy 2.5 year old

With my first I had about 2 days of mild nausea and that was it for the entire 9 months. I literally wouldn't have known I was pregnant without looking down! This time however has been horrid. Don't worry about lack of symptoms, some women/pregnancies just don't get them.
Have you mentioned the anti malarials to your mw?

Yeah I did. She hadn't heard of them. She said she'd look into it. 2 weeks later I've heard nothing. I text her to ask again and she said she was meeting with a consultant last Friday.

I had no symptoms in my first trimester. Zero. Zip. Am 18 weeks now and all was fine at 12 week scan.

My mum didn't have any symptoms with any of us four; in fact she said she'd never felt better than when she was pregnant (and she's a massive hypochondriac at the best of times so trust me, she would have milked it...).

My midwife said that 80% of the women she sees are the same and feel totally hunky-dory.

I make it my mission to come on here now to reassure others that it's just as normal to have no symptoms as it is to have every symptom under the sun, because I shared your paranoia at the start.

Make the most of it! Be smug in your wellness!

I had no symptoms leading up to the 12 week (actually ending up as 14 weeks) scan, so much so I told everyone to expect there to be no baby on the screen!

Thank you so much everyone. I'm not the youngest of first time mothers so nervous!

Lego, my biggest tip to a first time older mother would be - proactively throw yourself into the fun part of pregnancy, enjoy the shopping, knitting, resting, classes, yoga (whatever floats your boat) and avoid all the pressure/fear by miles, your midwife can tell you anything you need to know. I wish I'd been happily naive as I feel I would have been if younger, but being older I knew things sometimes go wrong - and worried myself sick, nothing went wrong regardless, but I could have enjoyed those long months of growing my baby.

omg me too. i have been panicking about having zero symptoms since day 1, and they have never materialised! got my dating scan on sat, and i am absolutely convinced there will be nothing there.

i hope everyone is right and we are just lucky! fingers crossed!! xx

I'm surprised that the midwife said that to you, they should know well enough that some people can have no symptoms. My midwife told me that she herself didn't. I had the odd week of sore boobs, but other than tiredness I had nothing else. Had a reassurance scan in the end because of people telling me that sickness is a sign of hormone levels increasing and that means everything is going well If I could go back in time I would tell them to keep their theories to themselves.

I'm now 28 +5 :)

I'm a 36 year old first time mother! I hear you.

I have 8 and 5 year old boys and no symptoms at all.with the first and very few with the second - I had a.week of very mild morning sickness and.that was.it.

I was very paranoid too!

Remember that having no period is the most obvious symptom.

lego I am 9+3 and have had absolutely nothing going on other than sore boobs and even they have been loads better for the past 2 weeks. I haven't even been more tired or peeing more often which I would have thought everybody would suffer with. I have been absolutely totally convinced that my baby had died so much so that I wouldn't even talk about the pregnancy with my hubby. But I had a scan on Saturday and there is a very healthy perfectly sized baby in there so having no symptoms is absolutely nothing to worry about. Instead of being worried I am now just thinking myself very lucky that I feel OK whereas last week I would have done anything to feel crap. So try not to worry I am sure everything is fine.