If you weren't planning, how far along were you when you found out?

[pumpkinpice]

I didn't find out until I was 9 weeks and only tested because I'd missed my period. How far along were you when you found out if you weren't planning? I feel like an idiot for not knowing

Hi OP,

A few days before my period was due. I am currently 22 weeks and hadn’t planned for baby - even took the morning after pill the day after unprotected sex - and the day before my period was due I had period like cramps but my uterus felt heavier and achier than usual - not necessarily more painful but I just remember thinking “I wouldn’t be surprised if I was pregnant.”

The next day same thing, still with no period and I went to town the next day and knew the test was going to show a + sign before I had even looked! 😂🙈

Think sometimes you just know. 💙🩷

Best of luck xx

Also - please don’t feel like an idiot. So many people have ZERO symptoms, it’s easy for it to go unnoticed. I’ve only just been recently discovered what a cryptic pregnancy is. Don’t be so hard on yourself. ❤️

12 and a half weeks. Someone at work joked 'how big would your boobs be if you were pregnant' and I realised l couldn't remember having a period for a while.

10 weeks. We weren't planning, although we weren't preventing either and just seeing what nature wanted to do.

I definitely felt a bit 'off' in the weeks before I found out, and was quite tired, but put that down to a resurgence of depression and the run up to a week of covid. I was starting to get out of breath quickly, and my heart rate felt like it was faster than usual (going off my garmin) but I just put that down to me getting unfit.

Not having a perdiod didn't clue me in any earlier either - my periods were infrequent, irregular and unreliable. I put that down to my cycles taking their time to regular after coming off the hormonal implant months earlier.. that or possibly undiagnosed PCOS. Either way, 8+ weeks without a period wasn't unusual.

Basically, being pregnant didn't really cross my mind. It had been 10+ months since coming off birth control and I had begun to assume that it wouldn't happen easily for us, and we'd need to start properly tracking/planning and making a real go of it.

The only thing that triggered the 'am I pregnant?' thoughts was when I noticed my OH's deodorant started to smell really odd and awful. I asked if he'd changed deodorants recently and he said no.. Even then, at first I didn't think much of it. But a few days later, the thought had percolated and I tested. That positive line couldn't have shown up any quicker or stronger!

8 weeks. I’d had irregular periods and was screaming busy and only tested when a friend convinced me to as my boobs were sore!
It ended very sadly a few weeks later.

7 weeks, it happened the same month I’d stopped taking the pill so wasn’t expecting it so soon. No symptoms other than a very vague nausea driving to work in the morning, which does seem fairly obvious in hindsight!

10 weeks. Id had negative tests! Wasn't trying but no period either.

Hey good morning!

I work in pregnancy ultrasound - you wouldn’t believe the amount of ladies that come in thinking they maybe about 6-8 weeks and there is a nearly fully cooked baby in there! I’m talking about 27 weeks! The dads normally go grey!

I also have a family member who went in to the walk at the hospital for suspected bladder infection - she was actually in labour and came home from the hospital with a full term baby! She had no idea she was pregnant.

Women can have irregular periods, continued periods or chaotic hectic lives and not realise they are carrying.

9 weeks is a little disco baby! Congratulations!! X

7 weeks and it was the sore boobs that gave it away!
mid had a ‘perfect period’ at week 4 as well!

Slightly embarassed to say 12 and a half weeks.

Put my missed periods and emotions down to stress at the time (other things going on).

In hindsight, there were two clues. Once, I had a burger from Burger King (I dont normally eat fast food); and, two, my skin was great...like, glowing.

It's only when I missed my third period that I thought to take a test. Doh!

22 weeks. With a 6 month old baby. Hadn't had any periods, was breastfeeding round the clock, had had sex once after years of infertility and needing Clomid to conceive.
I had been losing my baby weight gradually, then it stalled, then I started to put on a little bit. Not much, just a pound or two but I couldn't work out why. And yes I was exhausted but I had a baby and a 4 year old so thought that was normal.

I then caught sight of myself in a mirror at the swimming pool changing rooms, and realised I had a bit of a bump. Not a tummy, a curved bump pushing out from under my boobs.

I took a test just to put my mind at rest , DH thought I was mad. And it was positive. I knew straight away how pregnant I was as there was only the one shag, but had to have a dating scan. And hadn't felt any movement as I had an anterior placenta. DS born happy and healthy at 39+6 not having had the usual screening tests and I hadn't taken any folic acid.