When did you know?

Rebekah - posted on 12/09/2010

How are you guys measuring weeks? Typically, a cycle is 4 weeks, right? So, you wouldn't ovulate until the 2nd week, right? So, I guess you're saying you knew a day or two after conception? Is that right? Wow. I didn't know until a few days before my missed period... so almost 4 weeks.

With my first, I was about two days away from my expected period and I had some discharge from my nipples. We were not planning to get pregnant, but I immediately thought OMG I'm pregnant. I waited until I missed my period and then took a pregnancy test: Pregnant.

With my second, I got a positive pregnancy test about 3 days before my missed period.

Amanda - posted on 12/09/2010

I knew I was pregnant with both of my children before the stick said +. I knew with my son about a 10 days before my missed period and I knew with my daughter 4 days after conception. I remember waking up and giving my boyfriend a huge kiss. I didn't tell him until almost 3 weeks later when I got the + test.

Vicki - posted on 12/08/2010

I suspected it about a week after I ovulated and was certain at about 2 weeks. I had an implantation bleed about a week before my period was due. Then on the day my period was due I had a tiny bleen then nothing. My cervix (for those who find cervixes interesting, I can't be the only one?) was small, hard and clamped shut. I knew for certain then. Couple of days later my breasts were sore, I felt vaguely queasy, peed on a stick and had a +. Never went to a doctor as I wasn't sick.

Suzie - posted on 12/08/2010

I had a feeling something was wrong on 29th december the day before my sisters wedding. I felt sick but put it down to christmas and eating too much. I was still sick on her wedding day and the day after. I thought I could have been pregnant but left it till january to see if I had a period....Well the 19th came and went. I got 2 tests on 20th and both were possitive. I made an appointment to see my gp for 21st and I was 5 weeks pregnant. So I first suspected I was pregnant when I was 13 days.:)

I'm now mummy to a beatiful 10 week old daughter. Unfortunately that sickness that started in december finished 3 weeks before i gave birth, but she is worth every minute that I spent looking into the toilet bowl! :D

Lethina - posted on 12/08/2010

I was 19 when I got pregnant for the first time, I really didn't know what to expect. I found out when I was a month into my pregnancy and it happened to be on my hubbys birthday too. Before I found out though, I was going to school and was tired all the time, didn't take much to get me tired. Also my breasts were really sensitive especially my nipples. I knew that I missed my period but I just thought that it was because I stopped taking the pill (can't do the pill thing every day at the same time). Well as I said next thing I know I'm pregnant happy birthday hubby in 9 months your going to be a daddy. I just found out that I am pregnant again a few days ago, I knew that if I didn't start my menstrul cycle in a week that I was pregnant. At least this time it didn't take me as long to relize it.

Anika - posted on 12/07/2010

We decided to start trying and because I have irregular periods I thought I'd try an ovulation kit. So I calculated when I needed to start using them and then every morning I woke up and rushed to the toilet to pee on a stick. Went through a whole book and nothing. No smiley face indicator. So I bought another pack (bloody expensive too) and sure enough a few days later the smiley face. But it was very close to when I thought my period was due. Very confusing and I briefly worried that I had a problem where the time between ovulation and period was too short and wouldn't allow for implantation (the stupid things you worry about when you're trying!). I waited a few days past when I thought my period must be due and then did a test, I was pregnant! I went to the doctor a week later but when the doctor heard my dates she thought I was wrong so I had a dating scan. I wasn't 6 weeks I was 8! Turns out the ovulation predictor kits didn't work because I was already pregnant! So I wasted all that money DOH!

Anika - posted on 12/07/2010

We decided to start trying and because I have irregular periods I thought I'd try an ovulation kit. So I calculated when I needed to start using them and then every morning I woke up and rushed to the toilet to pee on a stick. Went through a whole book and nothing. No smiley face indicator. So I bought another pack (bloody expensive too) and sure enough a few days later the smiley face. But it was very close to when I thought my period was due. Very confusing and I briefly worried that I had a problem where the time between ovulation and period was too short and wouldn't allow for implantation (the stupid things you worry about when you're trying!). I waited a few days past when I thought my period must be due and then did a test, I was pregnant! I went to the doctor a week later but when the doctor heard my dates she thought I was wrong so I had a dating scan. I wasn't 6 weeks I was 8! Turns out the ovulation predictor kits didn't work because I was already pregnant! So I wasted all that money DOH!

Maria - posted on 12/07/2010

To be honest my then BF ( now my fiance) would joke around sayin that i was pregnant that the reason i dont feel good was becuase he had impregnanted me with his child!! lol what a weirdo i told him yea right because i was never sure when my periods would come but they always would and there was still two weeks of december left so i was just waiting and really wasnt think about being pregnant at all. Then i started getting this cramping pain in my left side like were my ovary would be and it would hurt!!! i thought period was coming and then i went to the bathroom and i bled so i thought i was having one put a tampon in and then check again realized i hadnt bled anymore so i wasnt worried figured it was gonna get heavier the next day nothing and the next thing nothing!! i was getting scared cuz the pain was still there seriously i thought i had a cyst or ovarian cancer!! baby never crossed my mind. finally he convinsed me to get a test so i did but it was late so i said i would do it in the morning ( i had already tried to schedule an appt to see what was wrong with me and they said the earliest it would be was in jannuary) so that morning i woke took a test left it there and then jumped in the shower i came out and there was a very faint second pink line. i thought oh it messed up or no im not, i showed him and he was all excited he said see i knew it!!! i thought he was wrong cuz it didnt look right to me! i read the directions and sure enough it said doesnt matter if the lines to not match in color intensity two lines mean yes i still was in denial called the help line on the back of the box and it said the same thing as soon as i hung up the doc called said that they had a cancellation and i could go in that day!! it was like a sign!! so i went in they did blood test and sure enough i was pregnant!!! he was ecstatic i was scared!! i didnt kno what to feel and no we have a beautiful four month baby girl and ready for another!! so from now on i will definitely trust his judgment!!

Roxanne - posted on 12/07/2010

I had really bad back pain like my period was coming but it never actually came so I knew something wasn't right cause I'm extremely regular. So I took a test and sure enough I was pregnant. I was about 3 weeks along.

Elfrieda - posted on 12/07/2010

My son had been conceived two weeks before, so I guess that made me 4 weeks pregnant. (That system drives me CRAZY! How can you be pregnant two weeks before you're pregnant?) I felt like I'd been hit by a flu bug. We had been trying for 7 months with no success (irregular periods didn't help), so I didn't want to get my hopes up. Two weeks later I took a preg test, and it was negative! :( Boohoo, poor me, I thought. It must be the flu after all. But I still refused the xray at the dentist, just in case. Two weeks after that, I took another test, and this time it was positive! After I found a doctor, it was confirmed that yes, I was pregnant that whole time. Next time, I'm just going to trust my gut.

Amanda - posted on 12/06/2010

With my first child, who is now 14 months old, I did not know until I was 3 months along. I had been using the NuvaRing, but my script ran out, so I thought my period was being weird. I was exhausted all of the time, but I thought it was depression from living at my in-law's. I told myself that if I didn't have a period in March I would take a test. I didn't make it that far. We were having lunch with a friend, and I started to complain that I couldn't eat as much at one time because I just felt overly full for long periods of time, then I'd be ravenous. He asked a few other questions, and then he said, "You're pregnant." My hubby was there; we just looked at each other. I went to the drugstore and bought a test. Sure enough... We didn't know how far along we were though. We didn't get in to the doc's until I was 4 months along.

Happily, I am pregnant again, and we knew within the first three weeks. As I don't go to the doc's until Thursday, I do not know exactly how far along I am.

Crystal - posted on 12/06/2010

I was on the patch and thought my period was weird cause of the patch and my doctor had me take a blood test just to be sure. I was standing in walmart pharmacy line to fill my script for my anti depressants and patch when my doctor called me and told me to take my patch off and dont fill either of my scripts that i was 9 weeks pregnant i about had a heart attack cause i was not with my baby's father but now we are happily married and my daughter is almost 5 months old.

Brandi - posted on 12/06/2010

I knew I was pregnant but told myself I wasn't. Back in the beginning of March, I took a pregnancy test and it came back negative. We were both pretty upset. So, about mid-way through April and into the beginning of May, I kind of had a feeling that this time I was. My body felt different. I couldn't describe how it felt different, it just did. However, I waited till May 6th to take a pregnancy test. (I was 8 days late) When I glanced down and saw two pink lines...Let's just say, I don't think I've ever been as excited, happy and scared all at the same time!!

Toni - posted on 12/06/2010

With both my son and the current pregnancy I knew at 5 weeks. With the first my I had been having symptoms but passed them off as my IBS because my nan had died, so I figured my being sick and the exhaustion was the grief, it was only when I realised my breasts had been hurting for a week (and they never hurt) that I even considered I might be preggers (I had been told I couldn't have kids). With this pregnancy I again passed off my symptoms as something else, I had sickness again but just thought I was ill because my son had been really ill and so I thought I had caugth whatever he had, I thought as my breasts didn't hurt there was noway I would be pregnant, we decided I should do a test because I was either really ill or pregnant happily it was the latter.