What were the earliest signs of pregnancy that you experienced?

Question

How long after your approximate date of conception did you notice them? (or When did you first notice them?)

Answer 1

I did't get to experience the fun that others did. I had a friend that had delivered four children tell me I was pregnant because I was constantly complaining of lower abdominal pain. The only way I could seem to calm it was to sit and rock back and forth. After dealing with it for about three weeks and her telling me continually I finally went to the doctor for a test.

Answer 2

I think it was as early as a few weeks. I went out to lunch with co-workers and before we got back to the office, I felt ill. I could not shake it. I thought maybe I needed a good "burp" BUT It was a kind of seasickness feeling....Yuck! A doctor officially diagnosed me with my pregnancy @ 3 weeks. Over the counter tests were not efficient enough back then to take UNTIL you missed your period. By the 4th week, my consistently on time cycle was late and I knew why. Today there is "First Response" over the counter tests & you don’t have to wait for your missed period. It is an accurate test to take...but then one must go to the Dr. just to make sure. Rarely one could get a false reading due to other medical reasons.
P.S. I never had "morning sickness" after that initial sick feeling. Hope this helps a little.

Answer 3

The first thing for me was feeling nauseous in the evening. Around 9-10 pm almost every night, I felt like I was going to throw up, even more so if I was near any food aroma.

I also had intense heartburn throughout my entire pregnancy, from beginning to end.

I found out I was pregnant at 6 weeks, and had experienced these symptoms before I found out, so I'd estimate that I started having symptoms around 4-5 weeks.

Answer 4

About a month later with #1, and 2 weeks later with #2 and #3. Which meant for my last 2 I had to wait 2 weeks to test. Mostly a car sick feeling, but definately noticable!

Answer 5

At 4 weeks I was ready for big afternoon naps, ate tons of tomatoes and navel oranges, and went to the bathroom about 49 times a day. The hormonal peeing thing in the beginning was a dead give away every time I was pregnant. Eww the smell of onions turned my stomach. too. Normally onions are not a problem, but they smelled really awful to me and I knew I was pregnant right away.

Answer 6

10. Tender, swollen breasts
• 9. Fatigue
• 8. Implantation bleeding
• 7. Nausea or vomiting
• 6. Increased sensitivity to odors
• 5. Abdominal bloating
• 4. Frequent urination
• 3. A missed period
• 2. Your basal body temperature


Could you be pregnant? Most likely you won't notice any symptoms until about the time you've missed a period — or a week or two later.

If you're not keeping track of your menstrual cycle or if it varies widely from one month to the next, you may not be sure when to expect your period. But if you start to experience some of the symptoms below — not all women get them all — and you haven't had a period for a while, you may very well be pregnant. Take a home pregnancy test to find out for sure!

10. 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.)





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.

Answer 7

I did not have none except for my missed period but i found out i was pregnant 7 days before my missed period when i took a pregnancy test as a joke and it was so positive! I didn't start getting sick until i was 2 months.

Answer 8

Like everyone has already said, definitely soreness and tenderness in the breasts. But also you will notice that your skin is extra sensitive to touch, pain, etc. And your sense of smell is heightened too. Smells that you never paid attention to before will all of a sudden bother you.

Answer 9

Sore breasts and just a feeling of something different with my body. I noticed within two weeks after conception.

Answer 10

The first thing I noticed was being nauseous in the mornings. I didn't vomit just had nausea. So I would eat crackers and it helped. Then I wanted to sleep all the time.