Did you know you were pregnant before you had a pregnancy test?

@birthlady (5609)
United States
November 24, 2006 2:18am CST
Many women just "know" they are pregnant even before taking a pregnancy test. Did you?
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@breezie (1246)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
I didn't know, but both times my boyfriend did, lol. He is the one who told me to take a pregnancy test both times.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
24 Nov 06
How did he know?
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
Your boyfriend is very in tune with you!
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@breezie (1246)
• Canada
25 Nov 06
I have no idea. The first time I thought he was joking.
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@beckyomg1 (6756)
• United States
24 Nov 06
yes i knew, i think its just something that our bodies tell us most of the time.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
24 Nov 06
How soon after conception did you know you were pregnant?
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
24 Nov 06
I definately did. I knew the night I got pregnant. I have also known when I could get pregnant.
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@chweetie (431)
• India
26 Nov 06
wow thats interesting.dreaming about your child even before knowing you are pregnant.thats really a great feeling
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Yes, it was really interesting, especially that now, 25 years later, my son looks exactly as he did in my dream the night he was conceived. I love him so much! I love all 3 of my children so much!
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
I knew the night I got pregnant with my second child. I drempt him, that's how I knew! In my dream, I saw him as an adult, he smiled at me and said, "Hi! I'm your kid!" Then a week before my cycle was due, I drempt of him again, this time dreaming I had a test and it was positive, and I saw him as a newborn baby. I've actually drempt of all three of my children.
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@sanell (2112)
• United States
24 Nov 06
yes I did for most of all my pregnancis, I always had a hunch and then bam positive pg test. But my cousins wife never knew, and she would think she would be menapausal or something, and sure enough, at about 8 months of pregnancy she woudl find out she is actually pregnant!!! Both times, She has two kids they are 9 years apart....and both times she had no idea she was pregnant, it is like LADY do you not feel the baby moving around or what? I would think that would be pretty hard to miss!
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
24 Nov 06
Wow! 8 months pregnant without knowing...that's pretty amazing!
• United States
24 Nov 06
I have always been like clock work I always start over night. With all three of mine when I woke in the morning and it was not there I knew I was. I bought a test and I was.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
I love the way our bodies tell us everything when we listen!
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@hizzle13 (644)
• United States
25 Nov 06
yes I knew, had a good idea anyway!
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
Was it just a "feeling"? With me, I had dreams and "feelings" before I had physical symptoms and a late cycle.
• United States
24 Nov 06
With my first child I knew I was pregnant before I took the test. I was sick all the time so I was pretty sure. I thought I was before I even missed my first period. With my second I had just had a miscarriage a month before I found out. I wasn't expected to get pregnant so soon. Though we wasted no time trying again b/c we had been trying for a yr before the micarriage.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
24 Nov 06
I knew right away with 2 of my 3 pregnancies.
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• United States
26 Nov 06
Hey there and happy day to ya!My situatin was just really weird..i was unable to have children..so i was told..because of my endometrosis..and I was very sexually active all my life lol..anywho..this one night..just as IT HAPPENED..i just felt something..and i kinda thought it happened but i dissed my feelings because of what the doc said.well 3mths later i found out i was..yes 3 mths.with endo y ou dont have periods every mth so i really didnt knwo til i was soo sick and never got over it and low and behold i was prego!!
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Congradulations on conceiving with endometriosis! It is more difficult to conceive, your child is special to you, I'm sure! Thank you for responding!
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Yes I did. My now ex-husband didn't believe me till he seen the test but I knew.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
thank you
@123mosco (629)
• Nigeria
24 Nov 06
i am not a woman.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
ok
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• United States
24 Nov 06
I had a feeling since I was 4 days late and my boyfriend was getting ready to head over seas.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
I hope your boyfriend made it home safely.
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• United States
24 Nov 06
yes i knew i was pregnant before i had a test
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
25 Nov 06
thank you
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@camara_me (615)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Yes both times.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Thank you for responding.
26 Nov 06
I had no clue!
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Thank you for responding! Many women dont know they are pregnant until a test is done.
@SarahJaya (410)
• India
29 Nov 06
Yes.I guessed it. I got the tests done few days after I missed my periods. For the second I know it the day I missed my periods, because the very day morning sickness has started.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
29 Nov 06
Thank you!
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
29 Nov 06
Thank you!
@lifeis2good (1183)
• United States
25 Nov 06
We are pregnant - Yes honey we are pregnant!!!
Yes I definitely knew that I was pregnant before taking any tests - just started feeling really different inside - of course hubby had to get a test to make for sure for himself!!!
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
There's something that shifts inside us when we are pregnant, and we know through intuition or through our bodies telling us, I think its wonderful!
@ausnikki (4054)
• Brisbane, Australia
26 Nov 06
I did with my second child,I hadn't even missed a period.I just knew,some how I felt different.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Yes, there's that feeling different again!
@brokentia (10389)
• United States
25 Nov 06
My partner knew every time before I even knew or even took a pregnancy test. I don't know how, but he did.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Your partner must be very tuned-in to you!
• United States
5 Jan 07
When I was pregnant I was one of those people that just knew. I had dreams I was pregnant. And I kept seeing babys, baby commercials, pregnant women on tv. It was just really weird. I kept trying to deny it and say it was coincidence... just too weird... like I was jumping to conclusions. I was two days late for my period and I threw up... and then I knew for sure. I took the pregnancy test - and sure enough I was pregnant. I only knew about it for three weeks when I lost the baby. I think if I ever get pregnant again (which I'm terrified of) I am going to have to be one of those women who stays on bedrest. My great grandmother had 8 miscarraiges....
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
5 Jan 07
Me too...dreams...and many other women as well dream about our babies. I contributed to two books on this topic written by Elizabeth Hallett.
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@birthlady (5609)
• United States
7 Jan 07
LOL! Time to get the baby clothes out... :-)
• United States
7 Jan 07
I had dreams the first time, dreams about taking my child to the beach, and dressing her up in frilly dresses.....so, I knew I was pregnant, and knew it was a girl. Right now, I have been having baby dreams for a week or so now, and I just have the feeling that its happening again.....
@Rebecky (166)
• United States
26 Nov 06
paleogoddess - Symbol of women, strength and the womb.
With two of them yes. I just felt different. The pregnancy test just confirmed it. With my last pregnancy, it was a surprise. I kept thinking to myself, "If I didn't know better, I'd think I was pregnant." We had been using birth control, so I was sure I wasn't. But then I was late, and I'm always on time. Took a test and sure enough, I was preggers. So much for birth control! lol! I wouldn't change it for anything, of course!
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