How you found out you were pregnant....

[marvik]

Not sure if this should be in the Creative Writing thread.

For fictional purposes I'd be interested in hearing about anyone's experience of finding out a bit late in the day that they were pregnant. How did the penny drop?

I'd not borrow or steal anybody's experiences for my writing. I'm just interested in the practical details of how people realised. Someone's comments? Then the purchase of a kit? Through a visit to the GP?

I simply want to make my own heroine's experiences sound plausible.

Thanks so much in anticipation...

[SilverMachine]

I had what I thought was the worst PMT I had ever had. I felt like murdering someone one minute then was tearful the next. I felt totally out of control of my emotions. I remember wishing that I would just get my period so it would stop! I only did a pregnancy test because a work colleague kindly suggested that there may be reason for my strange behaviour.

[WombOfOnesOwn]

It was a little spooky, actually.

My mother and I were talking on the phone and she started talking about how I shouldn't make any big plans next year because of the baby. I laughed, I said, you must know something I don't know, there's no baby!

Well, there will be, she said.

I brushed it off, we continued the conversation. When we got off the phone, I felt unnerved, and realized I was a couple days late. But that wasn't unusual, I skip periods altogether sometimes, have had terrible fertility issues, it took over a year for me to get pregnant the first and second times and both pregnancies ended in early miscarriage.

My husband and I were in the room together through this whole time, and I didn't want to tell him I was actually spooked by what my mom had said, so I didn't say anything. When he went to the kitchen to make some toast, since neither of us were feeling much like having a real meal, and I decided to set my mind at ease and pee on a stick.

A couple minutes later, I called out to him in the kitchen, "Can you come here for a minute? I need you..." "I'm finishing the toast, can it wait?" "Uh...I guess..." "I'll be right there."

I didn't know what to say to him in the moment when he appeared. I just held up the stick! I wasn't sure whether he'd be pleased (we'd been trying for a while, but for a few reasons the exact timing was really poor) until he gave me this wide-eyed grin and a huge hug and kiss. Awww, I'll remember that always!

Then I called my mom and cried and asked her how she'd known. One of the weirdest damn things I've ever had happen.

[NameChange30]

Aw these are some lovely stories, especially Womb (is your mum a psychic?!) and the other PP (Somehow?) who was in similar situation with TTC for a while and previous pregnancy losses. Yay for you both!

My personal favourite has got to be the cat, though I would love it if my cat did that!

[NameChange30]

Ah the PP I meant was Somebody not Somehow, sorry!

[MrsS182]

I had a pregnancy test at the doctor when I went in to complain about feeling exhausted. Longest appointment of my life and realised that I would rather be doing the test with DH than the Doctor. That one was negative.

This time I started having really strange vivid dreams and spent most of the Christmas holidays on the couch exhausted. I just put it down to the stress of a recent bereavement. However, I started to realise I might be pregnant when I started to feel nausea all day, my boobs grew about a cup size and I just generally knew. I did the test with DH this time and was very happy it was positive