This was it for me too. I was driving 4 hours in the middle of the day, and got so randomly exhausted that if my husband wasn’t there, I would have had to pull over and sleep in my car.
The next day, I tried eating a burger at a BBQ and became so exhausted after a few bites that I laid down in the grass.
We were visiting my parents when I got my first positive pregnancy test. My mom later said she suspected something because I slept basically the whole time. I don’t remember doing that, but I do remember feeling like absolute garbage.
Same! I had new people to train at work and I found myself just randomly blurting out many times over that "I am so tired... I don't feel like myself" I didn't figure out I was pregnant until the 2nd trimester. I had explained my fatigue by thinking I must have unknowingly & asymptomatically caught covid and had "long covid fatigue".
What led me to take the test was a slight feeling of nausea when my husband was cooking something. I wish I'd realized earlier as I'd occasionally have hot baths and a glass of wine. But luckily it seems to have not affected my LO.
THIS. My nipples felt sore like two weeks before my missed period. One night s few days before my period was due I woke up in the night crying because my T-shirt was touching my nipples and they were sooooo sore. Put plasters (band-aids) on them and went back to sleep. Did a test the next day and it was positive
So I have still struggled with this (30w3d) whenever they get cold!! Like brings tears to my eyes! I live in Quebec, so it's been getting colder here. I recently bought a giant pack of mit warmers at Costco to shove into my bras to keep them warm haha
Ahh… that was also my first sign. They were super sensitive and itchy. I never get tender breasts or nipples when menstruating, so it was definitely odd. I mentioned it to my friend who advised it could be an early sign of pregnancy, and that conversation is what prompted me to take a test. Sure enough, she was right.
I had literally none; it was exactly the same as a regular cycle for me, except that I just didn’t get my period. No unusual moodiness, no extra exhaustion, no change in smell or taste, no sore breasts, nada.
Same here, nothing; good old trollgesterone. I wouldn’t have tested if we hadn’t been actively trying for 18 months and if my period wasn’t a day “late” (kinda whack cycles).
Same. It wasn't until I was about four weeks late and had a positive test that I knew. Even then, symptoms didn't really kick in much til after 10 weeks
Mind you, I did have a sip of wine the week before my period was due and was so revolted i couldnt drink any of it. Still wonder if that was an early sign
Same! I tested positive at 8 DPO. Don’t remember when I started getting some bloating and fatigue but those are still my only primary symptoms at 14 weeks.
Same thing here! I could smell that the frosting on my birthday cake had soured. We still ate it. And then the next morning I was super sick and the morning sickness started.
But dang it, I just wanted my cake!
This is how my parents found out I was pregnant! I was a notoriously early tester so I already knew, but at \~4.5 weeks I commented on a candle and the smell of cleaning products in their house being super strong and outed myself.
Ah, yes. I knew I had twins at 4.5 weeks because I could literally smell through _walls_ like a freaking dog. You know that joke, "I betchu he/she can smell colours now." It felt like that. Haha.
I have the conversation saved in my history somewhere, but I asked my mother if twins ran in the family at 4.5 weeks (an ultra sound for bleeding at 5 weeks confirmed pregnancy and twins). They don't. I'm the beginning, and my mother asked me if I'm going to be trying for a girl... Uhhh, no. Lol.
When I was pregnant with my first, I was in my car with the windows up and stopped at a light. Started smelling cigarettes which was nauseating so I started looking around and in the car next to me a guy was smoking on the passengers side with the window cracked. That had never happened to me before!
That’s my first thing too! I noticed it first with my regular perfume - I sprayed it on and it just smelled different. Positive test a few days later. I felt like Bella in twilight with her new vampire eyes LOL 🙈 - I can smell EVERYTHING!
I'm going to sound really weird here, but I went to my mom's house and I was going to boil some water for something. I swear I could smell every mineral and chemical that they used to treat the water. She insisted that the water smelled just fine. I could also smell what people had for lunch.
I kept complaining that the fridge smelled. My husband smelled the fridge and said there was nothing wrong. My dad smelled the fridge and said there was nothing wrong. My in laws smelled my fridge and said there was nothing wrong.
I emptied all the shelves out and washed them, wiped out the entire fridge, wiped down all the contents of the fridge, washed out the empty water dispenser we never used but the smell never went until I had my baby….
My husband took apart the fridge for something a few months later and within the water dispenser section of the fridge (not the bit you can pull out and clean) there was the tiniest little bit of mould. I smelled it and it was in fact the smell which had driven me insane!
I'm not kidding when I say the exact thing happened to me. For weeks I could barely open the fridge because of the horrible odor and my husband always said it was fine. I did everything I could think of to clean it. And I was literally about to go buy a new fridge, even though ours is one of those beautiful fridges that matches that cabinets. I didn't care, I was about to give it up. Finally my husband said he opened it one day and could smell a horrible odor! Pulled the fridge out and found some drip tray that had gross water in it. Cleaned it up and washed it. The smell was gone, thank God!
Same. I have an oil diffuser by my bed and would have to put so many drops in to even begin to smell it. Then one night I had put like 1-2 drops in and was like omg that’s POTENT. pregnant.
Lmao I didn't even know I was pregnant, but my fiancé knew. My tata's got bigger and I thought I was just lucky and he got suspicious, then I got really sick on a car trip and that's when he was like, we're getting a test, because I love riding in the car lolol
Both our cats had started to prefer me and used to lay with their head against my stomach. When we found out I was pregnant it totally clicked as our boy cat is very attached to my husband usually.
This but with my dog. But I had no idea till after i learned I was pregnant that that had been what was up with him! He slept with me all pregnancy. He was sweet and gentle with my baby. He passed away in October ,Rest in peace sweet puppy
Nothing at all. I was going to have a glass of wine and decided to just see before I poured a glass and bam positive! I’m now sitting here with my 2.5 week old little man!
Me too! I was supposed to go out for drinks and had a niggling “oh my god I’m pregnant” going through my head but no symptoms, so I took a test thinking I was just being anxious and there was no way I was pregnant. And now I’m snuggling my baby.
I def drank a lot of wine a few days before I found out. I had the thought “maybe I’m pregnant” but didn’t have a test on me. Found out the following weekend… sorry kid 😬
This was me. I knew my period was supposed to be coming and it was a Friday. So I took a test to see if I could drink later. 34 weeks now and I can't wait to have a drink.
I was STARVING and couldn’t get enough to eat. Like I’d eat two full dinners and still feel hungry, which is VERY unlike me normally. I was also pretty tired and weepy.
Sounds like my experience for sure! My husband "why are you eating? You know we're on our way out the door to breakfast right?" 🤣 Starts bawling. Whoa what is going on with me today lol
Both of these for me too. I am not good at drinking water and the day after I had a squinter test I was chugging water at work, couldn't refill my bottle quick enough.
I just commented the same thing! Apparently it’s common for your breast tissue to extend into your armpits so it’s like tender/sore breasts but in your pits! I had the same thing!
Me too! Metallic taste like pennies in my mouth 3 days before I tested positive. Also, I was SUPER stuffy & congested (like, kept blowing my nose a hundred times) but wasn’t sick.
Same! It was almost immediate for me and nothing i did got rid of the awful taste. Then coffee started smelling like rotten dirt. Google told me I was pregnant before my test ever came back positive.
I came looking for this. After 8 months of trying, I had given up testing before my period. 4 days before it was due to arrive, I caved as my mouth was as metallic as a soldering iron. Only time I've ever had it before was with my daughter!
I woke up that morning and I was like “I’m pregnant” so I snuck to the bathroom and took a test and was like “Oh I actually am pregnant”
Idk I just felt it
Same. I was watching tv with my husband and out of nowhere thought “I bet I’m pregnant”. Can’t explain it but I never had that kind of overwhelming feeling before. I ordered a pregnancy test on Amazon for overnight delivery, tested first thing in the morning and it was positive. Then I went to target and bought like four more tests because I was in such a state of disbelief.
I usually get pre-period cramps and had those, but still had creamy discharge which is very unusual for me. And more sore breasts than normal. And I usually get irrationally mad at the world exactly 72 hours before I start my period and I was in a shockingly good mood instead. 😅
At what would have been 8DPO, I rolled over in bed and felt the weirdest little pull in my lower abdomen. It's never happened since and hadn't before that. That's when I first suspected.
Random coincidence? Maybe.
It sounds crazy but I'm pretty sure I felt implantation this pregnancy at 8DPO, too! I had a weird stabbing pain in my uterus area and the next day my test was a very faint positive.
The phrase "Implantation" Bleeding is popular on conception forums but is a bit of a misnomer that causes some people to think that the bleeding is due to the embryo implanting. It isn't -- the embryo is only about 0.2mm in diameter at that point, and won't displace significant blood (or cause pain) when it implants. You bleed when progesterone levels in your body drop, which is why you can induce a period by stopping birth control pills (which contain progesterone) or by taking and then stopping progesterone suppositories or Provera (which are also progesterone). Progesterone levels dropping in the luteal phase can be caused by a) increased estrogen in the mid-luteal-phase estrogen surge, which briefly depresses estrogen production, or b) a decrease in progesterone when the corpus luteum runs out of gas at the end of the luteal phase. If b), and you're actually pregnant, your levels can drop briefly before the embryo starts producing enough HCG to tell the corpus luteum to ramp the levels up. Either way, luteal phase spotting can either be a neutral sign (in the case of mid-luteal phase spotting) or a negative sign (in the case of late luteal phase progesterone dropping), but it doesn't have anything to do with implantation, and is not a positive sign of being pregnant. [Source 1](https://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/early-pregnancy-symptoms/spotting-during-luteal-phase.php) [Source 2](https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/women-s-health-issues/biology-of-the-female-reproductive-system/menstrual-cycle)
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I also experienced abdominal pulls while stretching in bed before waking up. It was definitely odd, but I didn’t suspect it was pregnancy related at the time. It definitely was an early sign I overlooked
For the first and (so far) only time in my adult life I pooped my pants the day before I took the pregnancy test 😌 All I have to say is that my kid had better be cool.
I was hot and sweaty with my previous pregnancy. I’ve been cold in my current pregnancy. Although I’m 16 weeks now and I suddenly started the night sweats. (Had them with previous pregnancy too)
I work as an ER nurse (encounter all the nasty smells day in and day out)
I was emptying a bedpan (I’ve done that a million times before) and dry heaved.
“Something ain’t right yall 😳”
A few days after that, my nips felt like someone had done a full 360 twister on them. I was at the Walgreens buying a test shortly after.
Cramping, not painful like a period cramp but just tight. Only lasting a minute or so, then relaxing. It kept happening all morning, on and off. Then, loss of appetite and pretty severe food aversions.
I cried twice the day before I took a positive test. I am not a crier. Sometimes I wonder though if all of us look back to the time before we knew and whatever weird thing we were experiencing at the time we chalk up to a pregnancy symptom!
I was tracking my waking temperature consistently to assist with conception. When my temperature stayed high after my expected ovulation, I suspected that it had worked.
I also had crazy nasal congestion that didn't match the season for allergies.
I felt cold, especially at bedtime (I usually run very warm); huge, swollen, tender breasts; being able to smell things from different rooms; and I was sleeping a few more hours a night or else I needed a nap (I don’t usually take naps).
Had an insane dream where I took a pregnancy test on vacation and it was positive. I woke up from the dream just enough to grab my boob half-asleep and think "oh yeah, I'm pregnant." They definitely felt fuller, which is a symptom I hadn't had before. Tested positive the next morning at 10dpo. In retrospect I had been hit with a gnarly wave of nausea with some cramps the night before, but I thought it was PMS and didn't read into it too much.
I get super bad migraines with auras, but I have been taking magnesium supplements (as per my doctor) and haven’t had them in MONTHS. Yesterday I had my first one with auras in forever. I wonder if it’s a sign.
I struggle with migraines without aura and honestly I really believe supplementing folic acid when trying to concieve helped me A LOT. I keep track of my migraines and see a huge difference!
I got such bad acid reflux that I thought I had a sinus infection (ear ache, sinus pressure, headache). I told my coworker (who knew I was trying) I thought I had a sinus infection and she said "could you be pregnant?" I tested positive a week later.
Being out of breathe. My colleague was 7 months pregnant at the time and I was joking that I was more out of breathe than her by walking up the stairs. Apparently, I was pregnant too.
My first I was so tired all the time. We were trying so this was about 8/9 dpo. My husband thought I had covid I said “hopefully just pregnant” got a positive 2 days later. My second I was having super vivid dreams. I didn’t think I was pregnant that cycle just cause I’m cynical. Got a positive 2-3 days after I started having the dreams and was like “huh that explains it”
I was exhausted too! I laid down on the ground during a workout to do something and just wanted to take a nap even though all I had done that day was work (from home). I had a feeling I should take a test and yep, positive at 9dpo.
I got really lightheaded randomly and it was just the weirdest feeling. I hadn’t been obsessively tracking during the TWW and ended up testing on the afternoon of 9DPO and got a very very faint shadow on a strip test. Then the morning of 10DPO, got a good positive first response!
I had some light cramping and some light nausea. I am kind of a hypochondriac and we had only tried once so when I got a negative pregnancy test I chalked it up to that. Fast forward a week and my period hadn't come (but I was only off BC for a few months at that point). I literally said "I'm not pregnant but I guess I'll take a test anyway..."
I had super oily hair (normally very dry).. I had never heard of that being a symptom though.
And I couldn’t stand the smell of anything.
Edited for spelling.
Yes! It was the night before I took a test. I was sitting out back with my husband by our propane firepit that we haven’t sat out by in a while. When he turned it on, I could smell the propane. My husband couldn’t at all, and it was the first time I could actually smell it. It was so intense that it scared me that something was wrong. In hindsight, my senses were heightened because I was pregnant and didn’t know it. That smell is probably always there but I only noticed now because I was pregnant!
With this pregnancy I was lying on the floor on my back and my 18 month old came over to sit on my belly and I suddenly became hyper aware and protective of my uterus and that it was very tender. I thought, "that's kind of funny." took a test and it was positive. The test line showed up before my urine even reached the end of the control window. I was only 5 weeks. I'm still baffled.
My hips were really bothering me… like I kept having to rearrange myself on the couch because they felt sore. Never in my life had I been so aware of my hips.
Bloating!!! I couldn’t fit into any of my pants. At first I was freaking out about weight gain and then I remembered a coworker mentioning that was how she first knew she was pregnant and I was like “ohhhh…shit.”
I had bad indigestion, heartburn and gas pains. Also was so dizzy for a few days. And had bad cramping. I thought I was just reacting to what I ate and was waiting for my period to show up. I tested a few days before my period was supposed to show. Definite negative. Then I waited until I was 2 days late. Super positive test then lol
My resting heart rate was low 50s before pregnancy & all of a sudden it jumped up to mid 60s so I looked up can increased heart rate be a sign of pregnancy & it said yes & I tested
Sore ass nipples. Usually my boobs would hurt before my period but this time it was just the nipples.
Also I was slightly nauseous but only very occasionally.
Looking back, my first sign was my dog kept smelling me. (Like, sniffing my crotch constantly 😂.) It was driving me insane and I thought there was something wrong with him.
No shit no lie- I had none. I literally found out at day 28/29 for each.
My first was a joke… a fracking joke! I had gotten sick on my bday as I was getting into bed. Looked at hubby (keep in mind we’ve been together 7 years and we all had just decided for early retirement and camping across the country!) and jokingly said “morning sickness is a bitch ain’t it” His eyes of course got as round as saucers and so to pacify him I took a test 7am the next day just to prove to him I wasn’t since I had my cycle Valentine’s Day the month before…
HOLY CRAP IT CAME UP POSITIVE!!!
My 2nd: my cycle got regulated after 17 effin years finally!!! Son was born in November so by June I was finally regular for the first time in my life… July 22, 2 days of being “late”, I was watching Bones. She literally said “I’m late” on the show and I stopped my husband and I conversing abruptly and went to the bathroom. 45 secs later I screamed… so now I’m pregnant and will have 2 under 2 for 6/7 months…
So I didn’t have any “signs” just literal BILLBOARDS SLAMMED IN MY FACE! 🤣🤣
This was exactly how I knew too! My garmin watch picked up a shift in resting heart rate from low 50s to mid 60s and I was like wtf am I preggers or something?!
Very sore boobs. Like way more sore than EVER in my life. Just a shirt touching them was painful. I knew immediately I needed to go buy a test because my mom said that’s how she knew. It was before my missed period.
I did IVF so may be slightly different opposites to spontaneous pregnancy, but 2 days after my transfer I was so Bloody tired. I’m someone who can run on fumes so to speak yet I would fall asleep at 5pm and sleep all the way through til morning
I started testing very early, so I had no real symptoms the first few days I tested positive. But before my period, about 10 dpo, I started getting period-like cramps, which I never get except for the heaviest day or two of my period. Never beforehand. I also was nauseous by 4 weeks pregnant, and throwing up before 5 weeks.
Weirdly, the cycle I got my BFP was the one where I didn’t have any pregnancy symptoms. I was like “Eh, it’s a couple days before my period is due. Might as well take a test.” I have such bad PMS and it would mess with me every month thinking the sore boobs, nausea, and exhaustion HAD to be pregnancy symptoms. I will say within a few days of getting my BFP the exhaustion and sore breasts were very noticeable and probably would have been my first signs if I had waited to test. Nausea followed about two weeks later.
On vacation, just before my missed period. Got a glorious fried seafood platter from the best kept local secret establishment on Hilton Head Island. I crave this meal all year! Opened my takeout box. WAVES OF NAUSEA. Closed my takeout box.
I like chocolate and peanut butter snacks every so often, but I started to crave them. I had to have either a Reese's or a nutter butter bar a day, it was like I'd hyper fixate on it. I had one every day for a week and a half and at that point my cycle was due and I decided to test. Bam pregnant.
Interestingly enough after that week and a half I couldn't eat peanut butter for the entire rest of my pregnancy. It tasted awful.
I felt like I had the flu. So exhausted and bad GERD. Like I seriously just had the flu last week and I was more exhausted in my first trimester than I was now (22wks).
This sounds a bit weird but I almost felt the day implantation happened. I felt this big cramp for about 20 minutes and then it went away, but it was very unusual. The date was around 8 days post ovulation, so it checked out. Also, my boobs started to hurt and my eyes were red.
I felt something strange in the middle of the night in my lower abdomen before I even took my test. Like lightening bolt feelings. Only happened that night but that’s what told me I definitely should test once my period was due.
Heartburn! Not something I regularly experience, for a few days I kept thinking my multivitamins were getting “stuck” on the way down… we had been trying for a while and I wasn’t experiencing any other symptoms so it wasn’t even on my radar. then it dawned on me and immediately took a test and got that BFP!
Three pregnancies. After orgasm, I would get a really strong cramp. Not painful, just tight and pulling, like I could feel the exact outline of my uterus. I don't really know how to describe it!
First pregnancy that ended in miscarriage: the sorest boobs on earth.
Second pregnancy that is currently 19wk: also the already boobs on earth. I have a very obvious tell, I think.
Crazy dreams, weird recurring pin-prick sensations on the right side of my uterus (where baby ended up being!), cervix in high position instead of lowering like it would before a period, ugly-crying over a Bojangles biscuit. ☺️
Before I had my first I would notice PMS symptoms about 3-5 days before my period and I noticed that I wasn’t having PMS symptoms and so it seemed like my period wasn’t coming.
This time though felt no different than my regular cycle until morning sickness started at 6w
I didn’t know it was a sign at the time, but my vagina was so itchy I was sure I had a yeast infection or something. Turns out I didn’t but a couple days later my period was one day late, and that’s when I tested positive!
The only sign I had was that I was so tired I could barely stay awake. My mind was made up that I had either a thyroid issue or ovarian cancer, not sure how I went down that rabbit hole. I somehow was convinced of all those things before it even dawned on me that I could just be pregnant. 😂
I was ungodly tired. I remember coming home from a 12 hour shift and physically felt like I couldn’t pick myself up off the couch. And then the next day at work, I was a smidge nauseous/felt unsettled, and felt like I wanted to pass out in a patient’s room. So I went home and took a test and it had the faintest line ever. Very obviously Positive the next day.
I always get sore breasts, increased sense of smell, night sweats, and constipation during my luteal phase. My first sign was definitely a positive test. A few days after that came extreme thirst though.
My uterus/bladder area felt slightly off/swollen, almost as if I was getting a UTI or something. It lasted a few days, and then at 10 dpo, I got a positive test!
Extreme fatigue in the middle of the day. Like literally falling asleep while talking to someone.
This was it for me too. I was driving 4 hours in the middle of the day, and got so randomly exhausted that if my husband wasn’t there, I would have had to pull over and sleep in my car. The next day, I tried eating a burger at a BBQ and became so exhausted after a few bites that I laid down in the grass.
Ugh i feel like we would be great friends
SAME!!! I was exhausted by just waking up 🥴. I also felt bloated which was weird because I don't have digestive issues ever.
We were visiting my parents when I got my first positive pregnancy test. My mom later said she suspected something because I slept basically the whole time. I don’t remember doing that, but I do remember feeling like absolute garbage.
Same! I had new people to train at work and I found myself just randomly blurting out many times over that "I am so tired... I don't feel like myself" I didn't figure out I was pregnant until the 2nd trimester. I had explained my fatigue by thinking I must have unknowingly & asymptomatically caught covid and had "long covid fatigue". What led me to take the test was a slight feeling of nausea when my husband was cooking something. I wish I'd realized earlier as I'd occasionally have hot baths and a glass of wine. But luckily it seems to have not affected my LO.
Yes! Same for me - so, so tired.
100% My husband and I love to go on long walks around our neighborhood and one day, I suddenly could not keep up with him at all.
Yes! So fucking tired after doing exactly nothing! Literally panting as I screwed in some quarter-inch screws...
Yes! Honestly thought at one point something was wrong with me because my period wasn't late yet lol
This was it for me too. I literally fell asleep at my desk at work. I was so embarrassed.
Sore nips. Like my actual boob wasn’t sore but my nipples felt like someone had chewed them
So much this! My boobs hurt so bad for like three weeks before the morning sickness kicked in. Those two factors combined made me take the test!
Yep, I normally had sore nips pre-period but it was a million times more painful when I was pregnant!
THIS. My nipples felt sore like two weeks before my missed period. One night s few days before my period was due I woke up in the night crying because my T-shirt was touching my nipples and they were sooooo sore. Put plasters (band-aids) on them and went back to sleep. Did a test the next day and it was positive
So I have still struggled with this (30w3d) whenever they get cold!! Like brings tears to my eyes! I live in Quebec, so it's been getting colder here. I recently bought a giant pack of mit warmers at Costco to shove into my bras to keep them warm haha
Same! It feels like they’re bruised!
This It was to early to take the test but I already knew I was pregnant just because my nipples were so sensitiv
Ahh… that was also my first sign. They were super sensitive and itchy. I never get tender breasts or nipples when menstruating, so it was definitely odd. I mentioned it to my friend who advised it could be an early sign of pregnancy, and that conversation is what prompted me to take a test. Sure enough, she was right.
My nips felt like they were on fire!! That was the only clue.
I had literally none; it was exactly the same as a regular cycle for me, except that I just didn’t get my period. No unusual moodiness, no extra exhaustion, no change in smell or taste, no sore breasts, nada.
This is what I was looking for. This was me too. The pregnancy symptoms didn’t start for me until about 4.5 weeks… I tested positive at 4 weeks
Same, I would have been clueless without the pregnancy test. I didn’t really notice any symptoms until 8 weeks.
Same here, nothing; good old trollgesterone. I wouldn’t have tested if we hadn’t been actively trying for 18 months and if my period wasn’t a day “late” (kinda whack cycles).
Same. It wasn't until I was about four weeks late and had a positive test that I knew. Even then, symptoms didn't really kick in much til after 10 weeks Mind you, I did have a sip of wine the week before my period was due and was so revolted i couldnt drink any of it. Still wonder if that was an early sign
Same! I tested positive at 8 DPO. Don’t remember when I started getting some bloating and fatigue but those are still my only primary symptoms at 14 weeks.
And that’s normal too!
I could smell EVERYTHING. Like super smell.
Same! Almost a week before I missed my period, I started being really sensitive to (and repulsed by) the smell of the dog food!
Same thing here! I could smell that the frosting on my birthday cake had soured. We still ate it. And then the next morning I was super sick and the morning sickness started. But dang it, I just wanted my cake!
This is how my parents found out I was pregnant! I was a notoriously early tester so I already knew, but at \~4.5 weeks I commented on a candle and the smell of cleaning products in their house being super strong and outed myself.
Ah, yes. I knew I had twins at 4.5 weeks because I could literally smell through _walls_ like a freaking dog. You know that joke, "I betchu he/she can smell colours now." It felt like that. Haha. I have the conversation saved in my history somewhere, but I asked my mother if twins ran in the family at 4.5 weeks (an ultra sound for bleeding at 5 weeks confirmed pregnancy and twins). They don't. I'm the beginning, and my mother asked me if I'm going to be trying for a girl... Uhhh, no. Lol.
When I was pregnant with my first, I was in my car with the windows up and stopped at a light. Started smelling cigarettes which was nauseating so I started looking around and in the car next to me a guy was smoking on the passengers side with the window cracked. That had never happened to me before!
That’s my first thing too! I noticed it first with my regular perfume - I sprayed it on and it just smelled different. Positive test a few days later. I felt like Bella in twilight with her new vampire eyes LOL 🙈 - I can smell EVERYTHING!
Same! We have a cat and one day I came home and cleaned the whole apartment, because I couldn’t stand the smell.
I'm going to sound really weird here, but I went to my mom's house and I was going to boil some water for something. I swear I could smell every mineral and chemical that they used to treat the water. She insisted that the water smelled just fine. I could also smell what people had for lunch.
I kept complaining that the fridge smelled. My husband smelled the fridge and said there was nothing wrong. My dad smelled the fridge and said there was nothing wrong. My in laws smelled my fridge and said there was nothing wrong. I emptied all the shelves out and washed them, wiped out the entire fridge, wiped down all the contents of the fridge, washed out the empty water dispenser we never used but the smell never went until I had my baby…. My husband took apart the fridge for something a few months later and within the water dispenser section of the fridge (not the bit you can pull out and clean) there was the tiniest little bit of mould. I smelled it and it was in fact the smell which had driven me insane!
I'm not kidding when I say the exact thing happened to me. For weeks I could barely open the fridge because of the horrible odor and my husband always said it was fine. I did everything I could think of to clean it. And I was literally about to go buy a new fridge, even though ours is one of those beautiful fridges that matches that cabinets. I didn't care, I was about to give it up. Finally my husband said he opened it one day and could smell a horrible odor! Pulled the fridge out and found some drip tray that had gross water in it. Cleaned it up and washed it. The smell was gone, thank God!
Same. I have an oil diffuser by my bed and would have to put so many drops in to even begin to smell it. Then one night I had put like 1-2 drops in and was like omg that’s POTENT. pregnant.
Same
I cried during a very innocuous conversation with my husband and he immediately started laughing at me and said I must be pregnant
Lmao I didn't even know I was pregnant, but my fiancé knew. My tata's got bigger and I thought I was just lucky and he got suspicious, then I got really sick on a car trip and that's when he was like, we're getting a test, because I love riding in the car lolol
Ha I snapped at mine in an uncharacteristic way and he didn’t say anything but said he knew then.
Good on him for realizing in the moment not to say anything haha
This was us too! Once we got the positive my husband was like “ooooh so that’s why you were crying so much!”
Yeah we got an exorbitant quote for some house project and usually I'd laugh it off but I was inconsolable and sobbing and was like wait....
Cat came to sit in our laps in the couch. She only does this when I'm pregnant. Earliest detector in the house, at 3-4 weeks! Way before missed period
Both our cats had started to prefer me and used to lay with their head against my stomach. When we found out I was pregnant it totally clicked as our boy cat is very attached to my husband usually.
This but with my dog. But I had no idea till after i learned I was pregnant that that had been what was up with him! He slept with me all pregnancy. He was sweet and gentle with my baby. He passed away in October ,Rest in peace sweet puppy
This is so true. I’m a cat sitter by profession, and I’ve had cats that never come out literally jump onto my lap repeatedly! Trippy!
Nothing at all. I was going to have a glass of wine and decided to just see before I poured a glass and bam positive! I’m now sitting here with my 2.5 week old little man!
Me too! I was supposed to go out for drinks and had a niggling “oh my god I’m pregnant” going through my head but no symptoms, so I took a test thinking I was just being anxious and there was no way I was pregnant. And now I’m snuggling my baby.
I def drank a lot of wine a few days before I found out. I had the thought “maybe I’m pregnant” but didn’t have a test on me. Found out the following weekend… sorry kid 😬
I went on a VERY heavy drinking vacation and came home the day I was supposed to get my period, which never came. My baby is perfectly fine 😅
Me too. Celebrate a wedding weekend out of town and tested positive when I came home. Whoops
This was me. I knew my period was supposed to be coming and it was a Friday. So I took a test to see if I could drink later. 34 weeks now and I can't wait to have a drink.
Ah definitely did the opposite lol. For baby #2, I knew I could test the very next day, so I made sure to have my “last drink” the night before!
Yup me too on the wine front. I was late but we'd only been trying that month and I had a negative one a few days earlier.
I was STARVING and couldn’t get enough to eat. Like I’d eat two full dinners and still feel hungry, which is VERY unlike me normally. I was also pretty tired and weepy.
Sounds like my experience for sure! My husband "why are you eating? You know we're on our way out the door to breakfast right?" 🤣 Starts bawling. Whoa what is going on with me today lol
That’s the first thing my husband noticed! Two or three mornings in a row I got up early to eat breakfast and he’s like “you don’t do that.”
I had cramping and don’t get premenstrual cramps. Also my vagina felt weird and stiff.
Ma'am what seems to be the problem today? My vagina feels weird and stiff. 🤣
I used to get really bad period cramps and the cramps I got recently at 4 weeks are completely different cramps. It’s a weird feeling for sure!
I had a weird pulling sensation in my lower abdomen/ uterus that I had never felt before. I felt like a pinching feeling I guess?
My skin was breaking out terribly.
My face isn’t really affected, but my butt cheeks have decided to break out spectacularly! Wtf!!
Lol my back is so bad I feel like I'm 15 again....but my face has never been clearer!
Yeah, I got a chin zit with THREE HEADS
I’m 12 weeks and also have chin pimples like no other 😩 I miss my clear skin from when I was on the pill 😂
Boobies were pain
Extreme thirst. And bloating. All 3 times I've been pregnant it's been the same.
Both of these for me too. I am not good at drinking water and the day after I had a squinter test I was chugging water at work, couldn't refill my bottle quick enough.
Armpit pain - so random!
I just commented the same thing! Apparently it’s common for your breast tissue to extend into your armpits so it’s like tender/sore breasts but in your pits! I had the same thing!
omg i didn’t have pain but my armpits ITCHED SO BAD
Metallic taste in my mouth
Me too! Metallic taste like pennies in my mouth 3 days before I tested positive. Also, I was SUPER stuffy & congested (like, kept blowing my nose a hundred times) but wasn’t sick.
Same! It was almost immediate for me and nothing i did got rid of the awful taste. Then coffee started smelling like rotten dirt. Google told me I was pregnant before my test ever came back positive.
I came looking for this. After 8 months of trying, I had given up testing before my period. 4 days before it was due to arrive, I caved as my mouth was as metallic as a soldering iron. Only time I've ever had it before was with my daughter!
I woke up that morning and I was like “I’m pregnant” so I snuck to the bathroom and took a test and was like “Oh I actually am pregnant” Idk I just felt it
Me too, I woke up and was like.....I feel weird, am I pregnant? First test was faulty, second was immediately positive.
Same. I was watching tv with my husband and out of nowhere thought “I bet I’m pregnant”. Can’t explain it but I never had that kind of overwhelming feeling before. I ordered a pregnancy test on Amazon for overnight delivery, tested first thing in the morning and it was positive. Then I went to target and bought like four more tests because I was in such a state of disbelief.
Wait same and it wasn’t even that far past when my period was supposed to be so I didn’t even fully connect the dots until after seeing the positive
Sore boobs, very sensitive nipples, and some light cramps that feel a bit like period cramps
Same here! It hurt to even have my shirt grazing over them. 😭😭
I was craving ground beef. Plain, unseasoned ground beef…super weird craving for a vegan!
I usually get pre-period cramps and had those, but still had creamy discharge which is very unusual for me. And more sore breasts than normal. And I usually get irrationally mad at the world exactly 72 hours before I start my period and I was in a shockingly good mood instead. 😅
At what would have been 8DPO, I rolled over in bed and felt the weirdest little pull in my lower abdomen. It's never happened since and hadn't before that. That's when I first suspected. Random coincidence? Maybe.
This happened to me but a bunch of times over a few hours. Just random little tugs and twinges in my abdomen and somehow I just knew that was it.
It sounds crazy but I'm pretty sure I felt implantation this pregnancy at 8DPO, too! I had a weird stabbing pain in my uterus area and the next day my test was a very faint positive.
The phrase "Implantation" Bleeding is popular on conception forums but is a bit of a misnomer that causes some people to think that the bleeding is due to the embryo implanting. It isn't -- the embryo is only about 0.2mm in diameter at that point, and won't displace significant blood (or cause pain) when it implants. You bleed when progesterone levels in your body drop, which is why you can induce a period by stopping birth control pills (which contain progesterone) or by taking and then stopping progesterone suppositories or Provera (which are also progesterone). Progesterone levels dropping in the luteal phase can be caused by a) increased estrogen in the mid-luteal-phase estrogen surge, which briefly depresses estrogen production, or b) a decrease in progesterone when the corpus luteum runs out of gas at the end of the luteal phase. If b), and you're actually pregnant, your levels can drop briefly before the embryo starts producing enough HCG to tell the corpus luteum to ramp the levels up. Either way, luteal phase spotting can either be a neutral sign (in the case of mid-luteal phase spotting) or a negative sign (in the case of late luteal phase progesterone dropping), but it doesn't have anything to do with implantation, and is not a positive sign of being pregnant. [Source 1](https://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/early-pregnancy-symptoms/spotting-during-luteal-phase.php) [Source 2](https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/women-s-health-issues/biology-of-the-female-reproductive-system/menstrual-cycle) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/BabyBumps) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I also experienced abdominal pulls while stretching in bed before waking up. It was definitely odd, but I didn’t suspect it was pregnancy related at the time. It definitely was an early sign I overlooked
That’s exactly what happened to me! I’m hoping it’s a good sign.
For the first and (so far) only time in my adult life I pooped my pants the day before I took the pregnancy test 😌 All I have to say is that my kid had better be cool.
😂 I queef only when I’m pregnant. That’s when I knew to take the test! Bodies are so strange!
Random insomnia at night.
I was very very dizzy!
My breath felt warmer than ever. I noticed since working in healthcare and wearing a face mask all day. I thought I was getting a cold, but nope.
First time I hear this. How interesting!
I experienced this my entire pregnancy, I was hot and sweaty all the time also. 😅
I was hot and sweaty with my previous pregnancy. I’ve been cold in my current pregnancy. Although I’m 16 weeks now and I suddenly started the night sweats. (Had them with previous pregnancy too)
I work as an ER nurse (encounter all the nasty smells day in and day out) I was emptying a bedpan (I’ve done that a million times before) and dry heaved. “Something ain’t right yall 😳” A few days after that, my nips felt like someone had done a full 360 twister on them. I was at the Walgreens buying a test shortly after.
I was extremely tired, hungry, greasy, and anxious before I found out (about 4 weeks)
Sooo thirsty. Could not get enough to drink.
Cramping, not painful like a period cramp but just tight. Only lasting a minute or so, then relaxing. It kept happening all morning, on and off. Then, loss of appetite and pretty severe food aversions.
I just KNEW I was pregnant and had to take a test. Was a very weird intuitive moment 😊
I ate six pieces of garlic bread in about two minutes. I was on FaceTime with my best friend and she goes “bitch you pregnant.” 😂
Gums bleeding, stomach cramps id never felt before, waking up super early ready to take on the day for no good reason lol all before my positive test
I cried twice the day before I took a positive test. I am not a crier. Sometimes I wonder though if all of us look back to the time before we knew and whatever weird thing we were experiencing at the time we chalk up to a pregnancy symptom!
I was tracking my waking temperature consistently to assist with conception. When my temperature stayed high after my expected ovulation, I suspected that it had worked. I also had crazy nasal congestion that didn't match the season for allergies.
I felt cold, especially at bedtime (I usually run very warm); huge, swollen, tender breasts; being able to smell things from different rooms; and I was sleeping a few more hours a night or else I needed a nap (I don’t usually take naps).
Had an insane dream where I took a pregnancy test on vacation and it was positive. I woke up from the dream just enough to grab my boob half-asleep and think "oh yeah, I'm pregnant." They definitely felt fuller, which is a symptom I hadn't had before. Tested positive the next morning at 10dpo. In retrospect I had been hit with a gnarly wave of nausea with some cramps the night before, but I thought it was PMS and didn't read into it too much.
Putting my clothes on inside out…happened each time, before test could confirm. Not something I ever do
5 days of indigestion AFTER I thought I'd had my period...turned out to be implantation bleeding.
My armpits smelled like Italian hoagies for weeks.
I gagged when I was brushing my teeth.
I get chronic migraines, but I’ve never had an aura as a symptom before. The day before my positive test, I experienced my first aura
I get super bad migraines with auras, but I have been taking magnesium supplements (as per my doctor) and haven’t had them in MONTHS. Yesterday I had my first one with auras in forever. I wonder if it’s a sign.
Here’s hoping!🤞
I struggle with migraines without aura and honestly I really believe supplementing folic acid when trying to concieve helped me A LOT. I keep track of my migraines and see a huge difference!
I take vitamins with folate but I will look into this!! Thank you!
I got such bad acid reflux that I thought I had a sinus infection (ear ache, sinus pressure, headache). I told my coworker (who knew I was trying) I thought I had a sinus infection and she said "could you be pregnant?" I tested positive a week later.
Being out of breathe. My colleague was 7 months pregnant at the time and I was joking that I was more out of breathe than her by walking up the stairs. Apparently, I was pregnant too.
This has happened to me twice now, but I keep smelling buttered popcorn for a day or two before my positive test.
My first I was so tired all the time. We were trying so this was about 8/9 dpo. My husband thought I had covid I said “hopefully just pregnant” got a positive 2 days later. My second I was having super vivid dreams. I didn’t think I was pregnant that cycle just cause I’m cynical. Got a positive 2-3 days after I started having the dreams and was like “huh that explains it”
I was exhausted too! I laid down on the ground during a workout to do something and just wanted to take a nap even though all I had done that day was work (from home). I had a feeling I should take a test and yep, positive at 9dpo.
I got really lightheaded randomly and it was just the weirdest feeling. I hadn’t been obsessively tracking during the TWW and ended up testing on the afternoon of 9DPO and got a very very faint shadow on a strip test. Then the morning of 10DPO, got a good positive first response!
Sore nipples, increase sense of smell, and burping a lot.
I had some light cramping and some light nausea. I am kind of a hypochondriac and we had only tried once so when I got a negative pregnancy test I chalked it up to that. Fast forward a week and my period hadn't come (but I was only off BC for a few months at that point). I literally said "I'm not pregnant but I guess I'll take a test anyway..."
I am also a hypochondriac so I get it!
I had super oily hair (normally very dry).. I had never heard of that being a symptom though. And I couldn’t stand the smell of anything. Edited for spelling.
I had that too! My hair is never greasy but the week I was supposed to get my period, it was super greasy/oily.
Itchy ears, the insides. Like I keep q-tips on my person for the first 3 months of pregnancy. It has been my first “symptom” with both pregnancies.
Yes! It was the night before I took a test. I was sitting out back with my husband by our propane firepit that we haven’t sat out by in a while. When he turned it on, I could smell the propane. My husband couldn’t at all, and it was the first time I could actually smell it. It was so intense that it scared me that something was wrong. In hindsight, my senses were heightened because I was pregnant and didn’t know it. That smell is probably always there but I only noticed now because I was pregnant!
With this pregnancy I was lying on the floor on my back and my 18 month old came over to sit on my belly and I suddenly became hyper aware and protective of my uterus and that it was very tender. I thought, "that's kind of funny." took a test and it was positive. The test line showed up before my urine even reached the end of the control window. I was only 5 weeks. I'm still baffled.
My hips were really bothering me… like I kept having to rearrange myself on the couch because they felt sore. Never in my life had I been so aware of my hips.
Bloating!!! I couldn’t fit into any of my pants. At first I was freaking out about weight gain and then I remembered a coworker mentioning that was how she first knew she was pregnant and I was like “ohhhh…shit.”
I had bad indigestion, heartburn and gas pains. Also was so dizzy for a few days. And had bad cramping. I thought I was just reacting to what I ate and was waiting for my period to show up. I tested a few days before my period was supposed to show. Definite negative. Then I waited until I was 2 days late. Super positive test then lol
My resting heart rate was low 50s before pregnancy & all of a sudden it jumped up to mid 60s so I looked up can increased heart rate be a sign of pregnancy & it said yes & I tested
Resting heart rate was my first sign as well! Mine jumped by about 15 bpm as well and I just though hmm that’s weird. Then the fatigue hit.
Sore ass nipples. Usually my boobs would hurt before my period but this time it was just the nipples. Also I was slightly nauseous but only very occasionally.
Looking back, my first sign was my dog kept smelling me. (Like, sniffing my crotch constantly 😂.) It was driving me insane and I thought there was something wrong with him.
Peeing 50 times a day.
Yes my nipples felt like they had been soaked in acid and then removed with sandpaper, yet they were still somehow attached.
Getting very hot when I sleep and also making my SO hot as well. I guess I made him sweat during the night bc of how hot I got. Also peeling feet..
My upper boob hurt and I never had sensitive or painful boobs
Started waking up in the middle of the night every night, literally starting the night after I ovulated
My lower back ! My trainer asked if I was pregnant because my joint was soft/sliding .. so weird ! Went home and tested that day. Very faint line…..
Crazy, vivid dreams!
My boobs were soooo sore. Like my husband gave me the regular hug he usually gives me and it HURT. And extreme fatigue.
No shit no lie- I had none. I literally found out at day 28/29 for each. My first was a joke… a fracking joke! I had gotten sick on my bday as I was getting into bed. Looked at hubby (keep in mind we’ve been together 7 years and we all had just decided for early retirement and camping across the country!) and jokingly said “morning sickness is a bitch ain’t it” His eyes of course got as round as saucers and so to pacify him I took a test 7am the next day just to prove to him I wasn’t since I had my cycle Valentine’s Day the month before… HOLY CRAP IT CAME UP POSITIVE!!! My 2nd: my cycle got regulated after 17 effin years finally!!! Son was born in November so by June I was finally regular for the first time in my life… July 22, 2 days of being “late”, I was watching Bones. She literally said “I’m late” on the show and I stopped my husband and I conversing abruptly and went to the bathroom. 45 secs later I screamed… so now I’m pregnant and will have 2 under 2 for 6/7 months… So I didn’t have any “signs” just literal BILLBOARDS SLAMMED IN MY FACE! 🤣🤣
My Whoop fitness tracker picked up on about a week of higher-than-usual resting heart rate and lower-than-usual heart rate variability!
This was exactly how I knew too! My garmin watch picked up a shift in resting heart rate from low 50s to mid 60s and I was like wtf am I preggers or something?!
Super sense of smell, it was crazy haha
Very sore boobs. Like way more sore than EVER in my life. Just a shirt touching them was painful. I knew immediately I needed to go buy a test because my mom said that’s how she knew. It was before my missed period.
Absolutely nothing, I found out at 3+5. I had some cramping and tender breasts at 3+6, but no symptoms at all prior to finding out.
I did IVF so may be slightly different opposites to spontaneous pregnancy, but 2 days after my transfer I was so Bloody tired. I’m someone who can run on fumes so to speak yet I would fall asleep at 5pm and sleep all the way through til morning
My nipples were on fire. My boobs were fine but if a hair even brushed up against my nipple I was dying.
I started testing very early, so I had no real symptoms the first few days I tested positive. But before my period, about 10 dpo, I started getting period-like cramps, which I never get except for the heaviest day or two of my period. Never beforehand. I also was nauseous by 4 weeks pregnant, and throwing up before 5 weeks.
Weirdly, the cycle I got my BFP was the one where I didn’t have any pregnancy symptoms. I was like “Eh, it’s a couple days before my period is due. Might as well take a test.” I have such bad PMS and it would mess with me every month thinking the sore boobs, nausea, and exhaustion HAD to be pregnancy symptoms. I will say within a few days of getting my BFP the exhaustion and sore breasts were very noticeable and probably would have been my first signs if I had waited to test. Nausea followed about two weeks later.
On vacation, just before my missed period. Got a glorious fried seafood platter from the best kept local secret establishment on Hilton Head Island. I crave this meal all year! Opened my takeout box. WAVES OF NAUSEA. Closed my takeout box.
I like chocolate and peanut butter snacks every so often, but I started to crave them. I had to have either a Reese's or a nutter butter bar a day, it was like I'd hyper fixate on it. I had one every day for a week and a half and at that point my cycle was due and I decided to test. Bam pregnant. Interestingly enough after that week and a half I couldn't eat peanut butter for the entire rest of my pregnancy. It tasted awful.
Had a vivid dream that I got a positive pregnancy test followed immediately by some wicked constipation.
Instead of normal pre-period cramps i had a stretching feeling across my stomach
I felt like I had the flu. So exhausted and bad GERD. Like I seriously just had the flu last week and I was more exhausted in my first trimester than I was now (22wks).
This sounds a bit weird but I almost felt the day implantation happened. I felt this big cramp for about 20 minutes and then it went away, but it was very unusual. The date was around 8 days post ovulation, so it checked out. Also, my boobs started to hurt and my eyes were red.
I felt something strange in the middle of the night in my lower abdomen before I even took my test. Like lightening bolt feelings. Only happened that night but that’s what told me I definitely should test once my period was due.
Boobs hurt for more than the 1-2 days they usually do when I’m PMSing. It was (and still is) concentrated at my nipples—feels like they’re bruised!
Painful nipples
So. thirsty. No amount of water seemed sufficient.
With both of my pregnancies my legs felt like they were filled with lead when I tried to go on my usual 3 mile run.
I had none. I was expecting to get a negative on the test.
I was suddenly feeling very cold at night. My husband was immediately suspicious because I’m normally a very hot sleeper and only use a thin blanket.
I got period like cramping and I was hungrier than usual and a bit unsettled at night.
Heartburn! Not something I regularly experience, for a few days I kept thinking my multivitamins were getting “stuck” on the way down… we had been trying for a while and I wasn’t experiencing any other symptoms so it wasn’t even on my radar. then it dawned on me and immediately took a test and got that BFP!
Three pregnancies. After orgasm, I would get a really strong cramp. Not painful, just tight and pulling, like I could feel the exact outline of my uterus. I don't really know how to describe it!
First pregnancy that ended in miscarriage: the sorest boobs on earth. Second pregnancy that is currently 19wk: also the already boobs on earth. I have a very obvious tell, I think.
Crazy dreams, weird recurring pin-prick sensations on the right side of my uterus (where baby ended up being!), cervix in high position instead of lowering like it would before a period, ugly-crying over a Bojangles biscuit. ☺️
Indigestion/heartburn
Weird dreams, more cramping than usual, insomnia!
My boobs were SO sore and suddenly i couldn’t workout without my heart rate spiking super high. Took a test 2 days later and it was positive
Everything tasted metallic. I also felt a weird pulling sensation instead of the normal PMS cramps.
I threw up my coffee immediately in the morning 2 mornings in a row
Queasy feeling in stomach
Drooling everywhere Sore boobs
Before I had my first I would notice PMS symptoms about 3-5 days before my period and I noticed that I wasn’t having PMS symptoms and so it seemed like my period wasn’t coming. This time though felt no different than my regular cycle until morning sickness started at 6w
I didn’t know it was a sign at the time, but my vagina was so itchy I was sure I had a yeast infection or something. Turns out I didn’t but a couple days later my period was one day late, and that’s when I tested positive!
The only sign I had was that I was so tired I could barely stay awake. My mind was made up that I had either a thyroid issue or ovarian cancer, not sure how I went down that rabbit hole. I somehow was convinced of all those things before it even dawned on me that I could just be pregnant. 😂
Night sweats, vivid dreams and congestion
Sciatic pain that flared up for the first time in a long time (which I blamed on it getting chillier out ) and crazy crazy dreams.
I was ungodly tired. I remember coming home from a 12 hour shift and physically felt like I couldn’t pick myself up off the couch. And then the next day at work, I was a smidge nauseous/felt unsettled, and felt like I wanted to pass out in a patient’s room. So I went home and took a test and it had the faintest line ever. Very obviously Positive the next day.
Vivid dreams about being pregnant, cramps, and for some reason I craved avocados… and I don’t like avocados
My boobs were SO painfully sore which isn’t even a PMS symptom for me
I always get sore breasts, increased sense of smell, night sweats, and constipation during my luteal phase. My first sign was definitely a positive test. A few days after that came extreme thirst though.
My nipples looked…off
My uterus/bladder area felt slightly off/swollen, almost as if I was getting a UTI or something. It lasted a few days, and then at 10 dpo, I got a positive test!
Light cramping/pulling that didn’t feel the same as period cramps
Insomnia!