Early Symptoms...very long

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MrsKS
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Kerri

Early Symptoms...very long

I have to admit... on Monday I searched the boards for the very first time to look for early signs of pregnancy. (I'm an LIW 09 girl so I always heard about LIF.)

I had a feeling something was up... and overall just this feeling of I'm pretty POSITIVE I'm pregnant... all symptoms aside. I almost can't explain it.

I was going to wait to take a test... but after reading the things written on the early signs, it made me HAVE to take a test that night. I decided to buy 2 differnet kinds of tests (to REALLY make sure). One ended up being digital and the other was a line test. I took 4 tests all together and all 4 said POSITIVE!! So thank you for the inforamtion out there on the boards!!

My early signs were:
Boobs - swollen and just overall sore. They were tender to the touch. This is normal for me when AF is due to arrive; usually the feeling lasts for a few days before and during the beginning of AF. However, the feeling was slightly different from the norm and was lasting longer without AF arriving. Also, they FELT different. I normally have firm boobs... but they just became like rocks!!! After we tested I made DH feel them and he agreed!!

Feeling of Gas - I have and had constant gas and just had to keep going to the bathroom. It almost felt like I ate something bad. This too was ongoing and just didn't dissapate. and still hasn't! Actually I still have ALL of these symptoms.

Hot and Cold flashes... mainly hot... but this is constant!!!

Headaches - pretty consistant. I always got migraines though but something was different about them!

hearburn - pretty consistant, but not too bad yet. This is also something I always got... but it was VERY strong during the real beginning (before I knew and literally the day right after I conceived).

Nausea and Foods - I have not yet puked but I did on occasion get boughts of nausea that went away fairy quickly. Even moreso than that... I found myself talking about wanting cake and odd foods that I normally don't care about. Also, while eating some foods I immediately was disgusted with them and literelly had to spit it out of my mouth and coudn't continue eating them.

Dizzy - I definately got dizzy multiple times. I didn't pass out or come close to that... but I felt like I was in a daze a few times... even got confused in the mist of talking to people.

Sleep - My sleeping patterns became WAY off!! This could have been due to the time difference and jet lag from the HM (we are having a HM baby!!) BUT still, it was odd. I was UNABLE to sleep at night... I would be up until 6am!! And then it was physcially impossible to get out of bed until 3 pm!! I had a few days off from work after coming home from an extra long HM but by the time I went back to work I was physically unable to get out of bed and function. I ended up taking 2 sick days. At times I would just get super tired out of nowhere... sometimes I was unable to keep my eyes open at work.

Pee - Definately the number of times in a day increased!!!!

INSTINCT - Probably the biggest symptom I had!! I always thought that when I became pregnant I should just know through instinct. I never quite understood HOW this would be... but felt it's how it would work. And boy did it!! I just knew the symptoms I felt, which are pretty close to AF arrival symptoms, just they were different and lasted longer than usual and something just kept telling me internally that I was pregnant. I didn't tell ANYONE what I thought or what I was feeling, not even DH. I didn't want to sound crazy and moreso I didn't want to be wrong (I also felt I would look stupid if I mentioned it and was wrong for some reason).... so I kept it a secret!!! Also when I checked the boards there was some information on instinct... and I belive the first sentence listed checking the early signs posts as a sign.... basically... if you are looking at this list now then you just might be pregnant!! It REALLY hit me... i think this was the moment I realized I just NEEDED to test!!!

DH was Surprised when i put the 2 tests in the cart when we went to the supermarket Monday evening. After I read the early signs... a lot of them matched up to what I was feeling. He smiled.... real big... but then he kinda thought I was crazy because I was only a week late (I have a VERY VERY IRREGULAR period... which is also why I thought it wouldn't happen so fast) and I guess me not mentioning how I was feeling or what I thought to him added to his confusion and thoughts of my craziness.

I couldn't even pee on the first stick... i tried... but the gas overcame. Sorry if that's TMI... but that's what happened... just another one of my symptoms!! I tried again about an hour later (maybe less) and it was the digital one... it said Pregnant!! I showed DH and we were in SHOCK!!

Then I took 3 more... just to make SURE!! haha!! The next 3 all said the same reading!!!

Now I'm sooo lost on all this stuff and what's going on. I know very little about pregnancy... i was always scared to know... I'm freaked out by the birth process. I want to have 3 kids.... BUT the pregnancy part - mainly giving birth always scared the heck out of me... so I never read or learned anything... and now I'm TOTALLY in the dark with everything!!! But we are still super excited!!!

Message edited 12/14/2009 12:09:35 AM.

Posted 12/9/09 11:43 AM