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Share Your Early Pregnancy Symptoms!

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Thehamslap · 25/06/2023 01:27

Hey Guys! I'm 28 and 3 months of TTC! I really would love if any of y'all would like to share what symptoms you noticed first both before missed period and shortly after that, that made you think to take a pregnancy test!

All info is welcome and If anyone doesn't mind sharing what your spotting experiences were like, that would help me a lot!😊
I think I may be spotting on and off for a week only when wiping but a couple times it was dark red and thicker, but did not every need pad or tampon.
I know people say spotting shouldn't be darker than pink but i wanna see if anyone else had same experience and was actually pregnant. . I was also very fatigued a starting around the spotting and also 6 days after bleeding stopped.

Any info would be knowledgeable for me as well as any other people going through TTC as well!🤗

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bumblebee2235 · 25/06/2023 02:22

My first inclination to do a test was that one boob was bigger than the other they were sort of swollen and 3 nights in a row I had been up to wee 3 times rather than once. Then positive test.

At 6 weeks I was sick.. this never stopped I developed hyperemesis 😅

TTCJJB · 25/06/2023 02:52

My BFP story to help anyone ttc

I ovulated on n CD13 - we DTD on CD11, 12 and 13.

7/8DPO - Implantation pain, felt like ovulation pains on my right (same ovary I ovulated from).

10DPO - vvvfl
11DPO - vvfl
12DPO - Confirmed with a FRER

Very early symptoms (10DPO included fatigue, mild stretching/cramping, lots of white, lotion like CM. More intense need to urinate that woke me in the night, I initially put this down to the cold weather. I never had any implantation bleeding or nausea.

Really hope you get your positive test soon.

TTCxox · 25/06/2023 02:57
  • diarrhoea
  • nausea and sickness 24/7 (11 weeks and getting a bit better although still puking)
  • extreme fatigue from 5 weeks
  • mild cramping until 7ish weeks
  • constant hunger
  • waking up at night to wee
  • boobs bigger and painful to squeeze/touch
Thehamslap · 25/06/2023 03:21

Ooo My boobs are getting pretty sore so but unfortunately I cannot recall if that is normal or not during this time in my cycle😩As soon as my partner and I started trying I am blanking on my normal period symptoms I have had for the last 19 years😂

OMG hyperemesis! That sounds horrid, but if it means I am pregnant I'll take it! @bumblebee2235 😂
Thank you so much for sharing!

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Thehamslap · 25/06/2023 03:31

@TTCJJB Thank you for all the great info!
I love hearing all the different BFP stories. Its so crazy home much everyone differs!
Yes I do as well! <3 Thank you!

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Thehamslap · 25/06/2023 03:34

@TTCxox Wow! Very noticble symptoms! and Congradulations! Thank you so much for the info🤗

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BagelO · 25/06/2023 05:22

Days after ovulation my nipples were constant hard and sore . They were hurting in the shower!

Spotting at 9dpo was when wiping a little bit of pink all day . Next day 10DPO when I wiped there was some brown discharge .
Positive on FR on 11DPO (not a squinter)

jammydodgies · 25/06/2023 05:23

I didn't get sore boobs or cramps or anything like that, I KNEW I was pregnant when I had an intense craving for sweets, the next morning I took a test and got my bfp.

Lululumpkin · 25/06/2023 05:29

Thé first symptom I had (which I dismissed until a couple of weeks later) was a heightened sense of smell. Suddenly I could smell people's BO like nobody's business. It was grim. Then I started needing to sleep at 9pm and felt FREEZING. And then finally I nearly threw up during an exercise class. Took a test and was 6 weeks pregnant. So the heightened smell started at 4 weeks.

crew2022 · 25/06/2023 05:43

Felt soo tired, sore boobs and had a very faint line on my stomach. After about 8 weeks I took a test and it was positive.

BEO · 25/06/2023 07:08

Before I missed a period I had been having very strange, lucid dreams. So strange/scary they actually frightened me. I was due on my period around the 9th/10th June and usually spot for a few days before hand. On the 9th I was at a wedding and hadn’t started spotting so presumed I wasn’t pregnant again. However as the night went on I noticed dark brown spotting, not loads but enough to think it was my period starting. It continued the Saturday (10th) and I had period like cramps so I was certain it was my period starting. However by the Monday (12th) the spotting had stopped completely, the pains were still there but no period. So I took a test and seen the faintest positive. Continued testing that week and currently at 6+1 pregnant! Early scan booked for 7+4. I don’t really have any pregnancy symptoms yet which is concerning me but some people don’t I guess! Good luck to you x

Ebonythoughts · 25/06/2023 08:23

First signs for me were really sore breasts and feeling exhausted. Then when I missed my period my husband suggested I take a test. I was about 5 weeks. Nausea started at 6 weeks as well as cramping and has continued and I’m now 7+4 with the addition of a spotting for a couple of days that stopped and a weird craving for cold crisp apples and salt and vinegar crisps 😂

Holly03 · 25/06/2023 08:24

Light headed migraine with ds the week before af was due and travel sickness (waves of it) the week before af was due with dd

Flamingporkpie · 25/06/2023 21:06

Cramping from day of implantation onwards and horrible nightmares!

I tested at 9dpo and got a negative but I knew I was pregnant. I told DH and he didn’t believe me! The day after at 10dpo I got a very faint line on a cheapie.

TTCxox · 25/06/2023 21:11

Hey @Thehamslap i just re read and you mentioned to say any spotting experiences.

I actually spotted the day before my period with cramps and i thought that was my period coming. But nothing came out the rest of the day or the day after. So I tested and I was positive (4 weeks exactly I tested). Then 5 days later I had a very light pink discharge when I wiped, nothing else. Then at 8 weeks I had brown discharge when I wiped. I’ve had 3x reassurance scans so far , one today aswell and all have detected a heartbeat ❤️ I believe the light spotting is due to the progesterone pessaries I’m taking as that irritates the cervix. The sonographer said there’s no internal bleeding 🤞🏼 . I’m 11 weeks and that’s my experience so far

pampam24 · 25/06/2023 21:15

I wasn't trying to get pregnant - I remember having period pains for a few days, especially after I exercised
One day the pains were like JUST before the flow starts kind of intensity and the next morning nothing, was weird, so I tested and I was pregnant! 12DPO it would have been. So so shocked.

I'm now 16 weeks!

First pregnancy I was trying. I had the worst nightmare ever then the next day intense period pains, then the next day copious amounts of brown gunk which lasted 2 days. Thought it was beginning of my period when the old lining sheds. Tested 12DPO and was positive.

pampam24 · 25/06/2023 21:16

Oh spotting, first pregnancy that dark brown ended up being pink then a little red after a few days.

This pregnancy I had a bit of spotting around 5 weeks which was pink.

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