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What were your very first pregnancy symptoms?

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sophhhxo · 12/06/2018 23:20

Helloooo!!

Just wanting to see what sort of things people experienced, I know everyone is different!

What were the first symptoms of pregnancy that you experienced?

xo

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Nothisispatrick · 14/06/2018 21:47

Sore and swollen boobs. That was the only symptom for the first few weeks, along with tiredness but it wasn't extreme.

PutDownThatLaptop · 14/06/2018 21:47

Eating an egg mayo sandwich and thinking that it tasted really odd, as if I could no longer taste salt. This was followed by thinking that tea and coffee tasted like dirty water.

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sophhhxo · 14/06/2018 21:58

@Littlelantern This is currently me! I cant get enough sleep! Not sure if its actually a symptom, or just tiredness! one week until AF is due!

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silverrose56 · 14/06/2018 22:57

A large spot on the side of my nose - I never get spots on my nose so it seemed very strange!

WaitrosePigeon · 14/06/2018 22:58

Sore boobs and I just ‘knew’.

Izzyw1983 · 14/06/2018 23:06

Painful boobs for me

NowApparently · 14/06/2018 23:23

I nearly vomited coming into land whilst flying back from Dublin (a birthday treat from DH who was most peeved when I demanded to go back to the hotel to go to bed at 9pm).

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 15/06/2018 01:06

Sore gums! Every time it's my first sign.

Nat6999 · 15/06/2018 01:55

Being in the worst mood ever, we were away on holiday & nearly got divorced, I argued over anything, if it rained it was his fault. It was like PMT x 1000, we came home, unpacked the car in silence, I knew something wasn't right, went upstairs, did a test & bingo 2 pink lines. Best bit was we had got an appointment letter to go for infertility investigations the day before we went away.

Kilkers · 15/06/2018 05:44

Similar to other people, epic tiredness, sore boobs, waves of nausea. Also tingly nipples, heightened sense of smell and retching about 8 times when cleaning my teeth. The absolute first sign was me crying like a baby at the royal wedding which took me rather by surprise!

didofido · 15/06/2018 06:16

Couldn't drink coffee or even stand the smell of it. This even before a missed period

muffinthepuffin · 15/06/2018 06:22

Farting for me too Blush and my notoriously strong bladder needing to wee constantly.
Second time I took a test because I "knew"'and it was negative (New Years eve so I wanted to see if I could have a wine or two), was an early response one day before period was due so I just thought I'd been imagining my symptoms. It was positive on 2 Jan!

Aspenn17 · 15/06/2018 07:00

Spots! My skin went from being perfect to covered in spots literally the week after conception and stayed bad for the entire first trimester.

tomhazard · 15/06/2018 07:38

excruciatingly sore boobs. And I smell really different when I am pregnant. I didn't recognise it as anything with DC1 but when I fell pregnant with DC2 I knew straight away from how I smell (and the boobs)

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 15/06/2018 10:12

Long before you could buy pregnancy tests, I knew with no. 1 when I had a strange tingling in R boob when I was in the shower!

Had exactly the same with no. 2, only I was polishing something instead.
Both times my Dh was reluctant to believe that I knew, but I did, since I'd never had the same sensation before or since.
Both times it was quite early on, maybe 6 weeks, though TBH I can't remember exactly.

Bettyfood · 15/06/2018 11:08

I felt different, straight away, after conception, I would say!

Sort of tingly and softer, somehow and something was clearly happening in my ovaries and womb. Like a machine still operating automatically when the factory is closed for the evening. Then sore breasts, hunger but nausea, dizziness from low BP, and flutterings in the womb area really early on.

Bettyfood · 15/06/2018 11:10

Then extreme tiredness. I could just about get through the day at work then would fall asleep on the sofa as soon as I got through the door.

poohsticks13 · 15/06/2018 11:12

Blocked nose, really itchy boobs - drove me mad!

Was on an all inclusive holiday and didn't really feel like drinking - not like me at all! 😁

Sunrise888 · 15/06/2018 11:29

Tiredness! I ran my first half marathon, and a week later started running again with my DH. I had to keep stopping and felt weak and pathetic and couldn't understand why I felt so crap. I joked with DH that I might be pregnant so we stopped by Boots on the way home... and I was! Morning sickness started the next day.

Caribbeanyesplease · 15/06/2018 11:38

Tender breasts

Caribbeanyesplease · 15/06/2018 11:38

Oh and dragging pain in tummy

Caribbeanyesplease · 15/06/2018 11:53

It’s all coming back to me now.

I’m very very health conscious. But all I craved was salt. Salt salt salt.

And before i knew i was pregnant i went out for one drink. The next day I felt like death. Death!

Luxembourgmama · 15/06/2018 11:56

Needing the loo ALL the time

Bettyfood · 15/06/2018 12:12

But all I craved was salt. Salt salt salt.

Me too! Chips, crisps, soy sauce. I think it was a blood pressure thing, because my BP was already low, then in early pregnancy it dropped further.

CheesecakeAddict · 15/06/2018 12:14

Sore boobs and I went off coffee (previously drinking around 4 cups a day)