Symptoms of pregnancy?

Question

I have just read a similar question that started me wandering & thought I'd ask you girlies out there - have any of you had no symptoms of your period coming on then discover your pregnant? Also, those who have been pregnant - how soon did the sore breasts start? Mid cycle or after day period was due??

Answer 1

i can remeber last christmas I was due on and felt period pains like i needed to get home soon to check as I was out shopping. I even bought tampons as had all the symptoms of a period. 2 weeks later, i was in the same shop buying a pregnancy test. This christmas i have a 3 month old son! My breasts got sore at time they would if i wasn't pregnant and stayed that way til i stopped breastfeeding. If you are pregnant, best of luck!

Answer 2

Sore breast can be a symptom of pms for some women so that isn't a very good indicator. And that pms symptom can start at any time in your life. Mine started in my 30's. Only thing different for me was w/ every missed period (2 missed, not unusual...so I didn't even consider being pg) they just got more and more sore.
But it really depends on the woman and the pregnancy.

Answer 3

Tender, swollen breasts
One of the early signs of pregnancy is sensitive, sore breasts caused by increasing levels of hormones. The soreness may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. Your discomfort should diminish significantly after the first trimester, as your body adjusts to the hormonal changes.

9. Fatigue
Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness.

You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of the common discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep.

8. Implantation bleeding
Some women have a small amount of vaginal bleeding around 11 or 12 days after conception (close to the time you might notice a missed period). The bleeding may be caused by the fertilized egg burrowing into the blood-rich lining of your uterus — a process that starts just six days after fertilization — but no one knows for sure.

The bleeding is very light (appearing as red spotting or pink or reddish-brown staining) and lasts only a day or two. (Let your practitioner know if you notice any bleeding or spotting, particularly if it's accompanied by pain, since this can be a sign of an ectopic pregnancy.)

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7. Nausea or vomiting
If you're like most women, morning sickness won't hit until about a month after conception. (A lucky few escape it altogether.) But some women do start to feel queasy a bit earlier. And not just in the morning, either — pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting can be a problem morning, noon, or night.

About half of women with nausea feel complete relief by the beginning of the second trimester. For most others it takes another month or so for the queasiness to ease up.

6. Increased sensitivity to odors
If you're newly pregnant, it's not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna sandwich or cup of coffee and for certain aromas to trigger your gag reflex. Though no one knows for sure, this may be a side effect of rapidly increasing amounts of estrogen in your system. You may also find that certain foods you used to enjoy are suddenly completely repulsive to you.

5. Abdominal bloating
Hormonal changes in early pregnancy may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some women have just before their period arrives. That's why your clothes may feel snugger than usual at the waistline, even early on when your uterus is still quite small.

4. Frequent urination
Shortly after you become pregnant, you may find yourself hurrying to the bathroom all the time. Why? Mostly because during pregnancy the amount of blood and other fluids in your body increases, which leads to extra fluid being processed by your kidneys and ending up in your bladder.

This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester and continue or worsen as your pregnancy progresses and your growing baby exerts more pressure on your bladder.

3. A missed period
If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you'll probably take a pregnancy test long before you notice any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may signal pregnancy before you realize you didn't get your period.

2. Your basal body temperature stays high
If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant.

And finally...

1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test
In spite of what you might read on the box, many home pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to detect most pregnancies until about a week after a missed period. So if you decide to take one earlier than that and get a negative result, try again in a few days.

Once you've gotten a positive result, make an appointment with your practitioner. Now head over to our pregnancy area. Also, don't forget to update your profile and sign up for our "My Baby This Week" newsletter. Congratulations!

Answer 4

I got sore breasts a few days after conception, before I missed a period. I knew it wasn't PMS as I never get that with PMS.

Answer 5

I had the usual tummy cramps but just knew I wasn't going to come on, as cliche as it sounds I just knew I was pregnant...and lo and behold when I was 2 days late did a test I was...with twins (!) don't remember having really sore boobs initially but towards the end definately

Answer 6

Started you wandering? Nice.

Answer 7

I was few days late then i was feeling tired and had sore boobs.
GOOD LUCK BABE
xxxx

Answer 8

tiredness, veins on ur breast, aching pain on side in middle, moodiness, a taste of like a matalic in ur mouth..........i always when i got heartburn cos i never get it unless im pregnant

Answer 9

Breast Tenderness, "oozing" (discharge), nipples enlarged, dizzyness, nausea, moodyness

Answer 10

well i found that i became really tired and needed the toilet more often,,,then my boobs became tender and then i missed a period.