Is it Ok to not having many pregnancy symptoms?

[brockleyD]

Hi everybody,

I am 6w/1d pregnant and don't really have any pregnancy symptoms except mild period like cramps and occasional tender breasts (this seems to have stopped over the last week). Is it normal to not really have any symptoms yet?

Thanks D x

Yes, can be totally normal not to have symptoms at 6w. Enjoy while it lasts. You may be lucky and not get much in the way of sickness/nausea.

Hello! Congratulations!

I'm just over 22 weeks now and I've still not really had many symptoms! I was moody and irritable until 6 weeks, then a bit teary. Had sore boobs on and off until 10 weeks, then everything stopped! I wasn't expecting a baby in there at my 12 week scan but he is still kicking merrily away

Good luck x

snap with nikkisbump I'm 20 weeks and heard baby's heartbeat for first time today but still hard to believe I'm really pregnant as I've had so few symptoms. Just a bit tired, more headaches and grumpiness than usual but no boob issues or sickness. people say you should count yourself lucky but I understand it can be more worrying not to have typical symptoms.
Good luck, I'm sure you will be fine.

You have summed up how I feel and I am not worried (although superstitious part of me is nervous to say that).

Some of the mums on the due in october thread (come join us!) are testing every now and again for reassurance, app tests on the internet are quite inexpensive.

I was more nauseous with dd than ds that may in part have been because I was more tired by looking after small baby (14 months and still bf at start) and working part time. DP has been off over half term so have had quite a restful week and feel well on it.

Thank you two, that is really good to know that it can be quite normal, I was beginning to get paranoid!

Congratulations Nikki on your pregnancy, I hope I end up having a pregnancy like you and not getting sick. My mum had constant nausea throughout the whole 9 months, she even had to go on a drip to feed the baby, so fingers crossed on my end...

Thanks x

Thanks everybody for advice, also I am new to all this, what does DS and DD stand for? x

Ds = Darling son and DD = Darling Daughter there is a list of acronymns somewhere will find it.

Here is a link to the thread I mentioned before: antenatal club due oct 2010

Actually if you look up at the top of the screen under mumsnet talk there is a shortcut to acronyms and here is a link www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms hth

Thank you so much Pookey! I really was confused! Will look at club. D

I didn't know I was pregnant until I was 15 weeks (i.e. no symptoms but then suddenly got a bit fat over Xmas). Did a test and told me I was pregnant - went for scan a few weeks later and found out I was 18 weeks!

Sure everything is fine xx

I'm expecting DC2 and had no morning sickness or major symptoms with DD (very healthy) or with this one who is apparantly a wee boy! No sore boobs, no nausea, just really tired.

Still just tired with an expanding tummy and the odd movements now at 23 weeks.

My mum had a boy and a girl and no morning sickness with either of us so maybe there is some genetic link in how you react to the hormones.

Hope you feel well for all 9 months :-)

Another virtually symptomless lady here (18 weeks pregnant).

I wonder if the main symptom of early pregnancy is spending hours googling Early Pregnancy Symptoms? It was for me...

And Boobz - I have said to friends that before getting pregnant, I was always sceptical about those stories where women don't realise they are pregnant until they're about 7 months gone (or giving birth) - but y'know, I totally understand it now! I've got a bit of a tummy appearing, but in the absence of symptoms, and esp if, say, periods were v irregular anyway and we hadn't been actively TTC, I would just write it off as winter podge and carry on as normal.

BrockleyD, it may be too early for symptoms for you, OR you might just not get any. I would tell you not to worry, but I worried non stop until my scans, so I'll just say, I'm sure you are fine and try not to google too much!

7 months I can just about believe (maaaaybe), but giving birth? I have felt this thing squirming all over the place since 21 weeks and am now 25 weeks tomorrow... it's not so much the other symptoms or even the bulge - it's the stamping down on your cervix when you least expect it? What do people think that is if not a baby? How can you get to giving birth and not feel like there is an alien inside of you?

My DH came home the other day and told me that his new work colleague went into work one day, got a phone call from his wife with a baby crying in the background, and he said "whose baby is that?" and she replied "yours".... she really didn't know she was pregnant until she was crowning.

I don't believe it, but DH swears it's true...

Blimey.

I guess it depends. If someone is young, pregnant for the first time, really doesn't expect that they are or think they could be... I can see how they might get as far as labour. After all, people do, don't they - very few, but it's not unheard of.

I haven't been pregnant before beyond a few weeks, so I don't know yet how it might all feel later. I think I'm just at a point where, having already had what feels like an atypical experience in terms of pregnancy so far, I'm much more prepared to believe that someone might get a long way down the line without knowing than I was before. After all, I was convinced before I was pregant that I would just 'know', or that my early morning sickness a la every drama I have ever seen etc, would give the game away. IN fact, a pee stick was all I had to go on.

There just seem to be as many different experiences of pregnancy/birth as there are women, tbh, and I'm just allowing for the possibility, however unlikely!

Thank you all so much for your comments and advice, so nice to hear that other people have experienced similar worries. I just can't wait till my 12 week scan!!!!!!!

I had virtually nothing with my DD. In fact, if I hadn't known I was pregnant at 17 weeks, I would have put her movement down to gas (since I also have IBS). I didn't really properly show until around 6 months or so and, given I had spotting at 7 and 17 weeks could easily have presumed I was having a bout of irregular periods owing to stress.

A friend of mine didn't realise she was pregnant with her second child until she was 23 months because she, too, had virtually symptom-free pregnancies and also has PCOS. A whole host of mutual friends claimed to have known before she did, in fact!

I have great for whole pregnancy so far and am now 26 weeks. Only thing i had was being a bit grumpier for first 12 weeks and a lot happier since then.