Now that the news is out there about my pregnancy, I have decided to do a whole series about the journey. Over the coming weeks, I am going to share with you the good, the bad and the ugly. I want to be real with you guys about everything that I am experiencing and feeling. In the hope that if there is another expectant mother out there, it may help them just a little.
Today, I am going to chat to you guys all about the early symptoms of pregnancy that I had.
As you may know, the pregnancy was a surprise to us. A surprise in the fact that we didn’t know if we would be able to have a baby. We had been having unprotected sex for almost 6 years, so getting pregnant after that amount of time shocked the shit out of us. The reason I took a test in the first place was because something didn’t quite feel ‘normal’. So, in this post, I am going to share some of the early symptoms of pregnancy that I felt…
Sickness.
The main thing, as with many pregnant women was morning sickness. But I have to admit, when it first happened I did wonder if I was just suffering from a two-day hangover. But when it continued for a few weeks, my mind instantly snapped to food poisoning, especially with it lasting for far longer than just the morning. It wasn’t until my husband pointed out that I wasn’t just sick, that I was feeling different in other ways, that I decided to think about the possibility of a pregnancy.
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Sore breasts.
The odd time of the year that I have my period, my boobs are the first telling sign. The pain that I get, particularly in my left breast is crippling. So when I first felt the pain, I just thought that my period would follow a couple of days later. But when it never came, I wondered what could be wrong. To be honest, in the first instance, I thought the worst. I didn’t think that I could ever be pregnant, so what if it was something worse… like the C word. Fortunately, it was just the baba!
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Lethargic.
I usually pride myself on how much energy I have. Which is why this was one of the glaring early symptoms of pregnancy for me. Suddenly, I couldn’t move. Before I even knew that I was pregnant, I thought I was coming down with the flu. I got in from work for three nights in a row and crawled straight into bed because I didn’t feel like I had any gas in the tank. Usually, I am up at 4am each morning to start my day and exercise, but I was finding it hard just to stand at the sink and brush my teeth. Something was definitely off.
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Overly emotional.
Many times, I have been described by my husband as heartless. I do not typically show emotion and before my pregnancy I think the last time I cried it was 2017. But since being fertilized, I cry pretty much every hour, on the hour. In the early days, I sat on the sofa with my husband and just burst into tears. Like body wracking sobs. He was desperate to find out what had happened. I mean, we were watching Would I Lie To You on TV, so not exactly emotive TV. When I thought about it, I cast my mind back to when Damon died on Vampire Diaries in series 5 and I just couldn’t control myself. What a freak.
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Aversions.
The last thing that made things pretty obvious to me that I was up le duff was how many aversions I had. One day, I was in the office and somebody walked past me with a black coffee and I had to grab my bin and be sick into it. But for a while I completely went off Mexican food. Which is unheard of. I could eat some variation of Mexican food every day of the week. But for a good month or so, the thought of all the different foods made me feel sick to my stomach.
I hope you guys enjoyed this post about my early symptoms of pregnancy. Don’t get me wrong, there wasn’t anything blaringly obvious other than the sickness. All of them could have just been PMT symptoms, but something else just seemed very different about how I was feeling. I am just very glad that I took a test when I did because I had some big nights out planned with the girls. Little baby would have ended up swimming around in a sea of Whispering Angel. Moral of the story, test if you have an inkling!
