DU women: Ever just know, before you took the test, that you're pregnant?

I have this powerful feeling that I am. I haven't reached a missed period yet (at which point I could use the home pregnancy tests) but I sure don't feel like usual. I feel like there's something going on down there.

Has anyone else had this feeling? Were you right?

Buy a test and if you use the first morning's urine tomorrow, it should be accurate if you're within 4 days before your period is due.

Here's a link the will show the tests that will measure even small levels of HCG (if you get one that measure 20-25 mIU, it picks it up fast):

http://fertilityplus.org/faq/hpt.html

Some days I really wish I didn't know so much about this stuff.

When I was pregnant with my son, I just 'felt' different and I just had this sense that I was. Other moms have told me the same thing. I believe you can use the test even if you haven't missed your period, yet.

as the father of three, I can tell you that yes, my wife knew each time when she was pregnant, and she predicted it before those tests each time.
Womens intuition is strong. All the bests moms are women, BTW :)

I took a test a week before my period was due and it still showed a positive line, it was faint, but there! Take one now!! I didn't wait for the first pee in the morning either. I hope it shows the result you want. Good luck!

;-)
But seriously folks...Miz t. did.
Doc confirmed it a week later.
Now the question is: Do you WANT to be?

although, by spacing our children five years apart, my husband and I would be condemning ourselves to ten years of adolescence :-(

Oh my. Happy Middle Age to You Both.

My child is an adolescent and a delight, by the way. A peach, a prince, cute, funny, smart, and one of the good guys.

Kim

in our early 40s. Good thing I'm in good health!

40s is still almost teen-agers.

youthful.

Just take your vitamins post-partum, too--you'll need 'em even more!

By this time you've seen just about everything. But the little fellas can be something else.

And I suspected pregnancy before I took the dip. I went shopping the weekend before and was unusually tired. But then I had been measuring basal body temperature and it was way past the 98.6 mark for several days and it hadn't let up...I have pages of the Excel sheets to show the kid...when I thought he started out...

What magic potion did you use?

Adolescence is the reason I didn't have kids!

I "knew" within a week of my daughter's conception that I was pregnant. I was exhausted and had a very full feeling. People thought I was crazy, but I was absolutely correct.

First time the pregnancy didn't work out and we lost it at 10 weeks. But I knew something was very different immediately after I got pregnant. I thought I was getting the flu.

Second time, I knew about a week after conception. Everything changes in your body, or at least in mine. I was asking people if they thought it would be O.K. if I just slept under my car until the next work day.

Go ahead and take the test. I hope it is good news for you, no matter the outcome.

We tried for almost 5 yrs to get pregnant with our last child and did not use any protection during this time period. But my husband knew I was pregnant before I missed my 1st period (maybe I had just lost hope at that time of having another baby). So my husband was right and our baby just celebrated his 27th birthday in April.

It was just an oddness-little off- kind of feeling. Good luck to you. I'll be hoping that whichever way you want it...that's the way it is. :hug:

and you all seem to be saying that I'm not imagining things! I too have that 'full' feeling in my lower abdomen.

You know, that one time, I just knew it was different somehow.....

I've never been pregnant, but could still get there at age 54 (don't intend to! the thought scares me!!! even though my doc jokes that I should).

What I mean is, you are not too old. Hell, my mother was nearly 39 when I was born and I turned out all right...well, maybe not all would agree with that, but....

Glowing skin, and blue veins start to come to the surface. This is just a couple days after conception. Good luck!

but she couldn't put her finger on it.

You just know ..

When I called the doctor, I didn't tell her "I THINK I'm pregnant," I told the receptionist simply, "I'm pregnant."

She asked if I had taken a PT, and I said no, she said come on in.

I have seen the same MD for 20 years and know her entire staff by name--that helps.

In fact, much as I joke about it, I swear the indigestion began shortly after I climbed out of bed, and the pregnancy rhinitis was about an hour behind. :)

It is impossible to explain, but you DO know. I was 37 by the time I had Material Girl--and later parenthood is pretty cool. I really don't mind being one of the only first grade mommies with gray hair!!

Congrats!


Laura

Way before my missed period. I felt a funny burning sensation in my abdomen. It wasn't painful, more like hunger...

my breasts felt like a big fruits on the verge of being a bit over ripe, or I think my body felt "overblown" like a big rose or magnolia blossom the day after it was a perfect bloom.
I used the remaining one of a two-pack preg. test left over from 6 years before, when I was hoping I was pregnant, but wasn't.
I was so bleary-eyed first thing in the morning that I stuck the wrong end in the pee- I thought the lack of response in the test was because the expiration date was 4 years before!- then realized my mistake and dipped the other end- and it confirmed my sensation of being 'fecund'.
I was about 2 months short of 44 when I had my son. That was 9 1/2 fun years ago.

and yes I was. I think you just know.

my woman's intuition needs a tuneup. Got my monthly visitor today.

Oh well. Looks like my husband and I are gonna have to practice some more! :evilgrin:

Have fun practicing :)

I had taken a pregnancy test several times and always knew that it would come back negative. But the very last time I took one about 2 years ago I just knew I was pregnant. And I was. thats the most scared I have ever been in my life!!

With my firstborn son, I had strong symptoms very early. Even though I' never been pregnant before, I was pretty sure. The most noticeable was the fatigue. The week before, at work, I felt lightheaded and almost fainted walking to the break room from my cubicle. The weekend I took the test I had to nap both days; I just couldn't stay awake. We watched Philadelphia that Sunday, a movie I'd seen a couple of times, and I just sobbed uncontrollably, and couldn't stop. I pretty much knew for sure then. I went right out to the corner drugstore and bought a test, and almost had a wreck on the way back I was so nervous.