Can you estimate how far along you were when you started to feel pregnant? Did anyone feel that way as early as two weeks? I was pregnant once, and I remember what it felt like at first: my nipples hurt, ached; I was sick; and I was really tired. I think I didn’t like diet Coke, either (unheard of). I don’t know how soon I felt like that after I conceived, but I think it was really early, like possibly less than two weeks after conception. The reason that I’m asking is that now I really hope that I am pregnant, but I don’t “feel” pregnant. It’s really really early, actually, now that I calculate, so I shouldn’t fret. This post is mostly pointless but another week seems like an eternity to wait (when I can take a urine test). So I’ll post about it instead.
I have been known to feel pregnant 10 days before a missed period, but not always. It can be very subtle- a different taste to things, a sudden aversion to certain smells, or more pronounced, like sore breasts. Or you could feel nothing at all for the first few weeks. I wouldn’t sweat it, yet, but good luck!
Within 3 weeks of conception (around the time of my missed period), I noticed my nipples were more sensitive and I just “felt” different. Never having been pregnant before that, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but I knew something was different.
About ten days, just a strange moment when I looked in the mirror and told myself “You’re pregnant.”
Of course I dismissed that completely for another ten days, then I realised my period was a week overdue - unheard of. Within that ten days before knowing for certain, I also developed a craving for flavoured milk - ick.
My mother says she began despising Dr. Pepper within a couple of weeks of being pregnant. Even though she loved it prior, and had no idea she was pregnant.
She didn’t think to get a pregnancy test until she woke up a couple of weeks later and vomited at the sight of an ordinary breakfast.
Having never been pregnant, I have no personal stories to share…but I still think it’s funny that my mother still doesn’t drink Dr. Pepper to this day.
With m first son, I knew within days. It was as though my entire body had shifted gears and somehow entered a strange universe, I just felt so weird.
With my second son, I never “felt” pregnant. Clearly I was, but I felt entirely normal, ie non-pregnant.
We won’t count my wife’s current pregnancy, since there are so many extenuating circumstances.
However, when she was pregnant the first time, she says she didn’t really “feel pregnant” until five-six weeks along.
On the other hand, I told her she had just gotten pregnant about three seconds after conception. 
13 days post-conception, my breasts got very, very sore. That was also the day I got a very faint positive on the home pregnancy test, so I didn’t get any early warning! It was a couple of weeks later that I got the fatigue and food-apathy.
Good luck – I hope you get 2 pink lines!
My first symptom with all three pregnancies was a wave of irrational PMS-style moodiness, approximately two weeks before I expected my period. Apart from that and being a little more tired than usual, I didn’t have any real symptoms until I started showing.
Thanks, all. I’m glad to hear that some people felt nothing at this stage. Admittedly, this is the first month we’ve actually TRIED, knowing when I was ovulating, and everything, but I have (genetic and other) reasons to believe I’m pretty fertile, so I have high hopes…
I felt pregnant a day or two before missed periods. General fatigue and malaise coupled with extra sensitive breasts. On the other hand, I’ve felt pregnant before periods that weren’t missed, also. Wishfull thinking.
I’ve known several people who didn’t know they were pregnant for weeks or even months, so if it makes you feel any better, feeling pregnant isn’t a reliable indicator.
I didn’t feel ANYTHING for the first month and a half, and then the second month I began to feel very tired and very hungry all the time, I felt hormonal/emotional, I felt a wave of nausea every morning when I woke up, and my weight was holding steady even though I was exercising vigorously every night. It didn’t occur to me that I was pregnant until I described all my symptoms to a friend (med student) one night, and she said, “that sounds suspicious, I have a bunch of pregnancy tests, why don’t you take one?” It was an immediate positive. I was “skipping” periods on birth control, which is why I never noticed missing one.
I hate to admit it, but I am one of those people who knew the moment I conceived. With my son, when I asked my OB/GYN to do a pregnancy test, it came back negative. I knew I was pregnant and so the OB/GYN did a blood test and basically said “well, Litoris, you’re pregnant, I don’t know how you knew, but you definitely are.” I can just tell.
By the same token, I can also tell when my thyroid, iron or B12 level fluctuates for more than a day. I am just in tune.
The first time I knew within three or four weeks - I started to gag while brushing my teeth.
This time, I FINALLY feel pregnant - at three months! I just didn’t have many symptoms - no nausea, no sore boobs until very recently. Just intense food cravings and waterworks for no reason.
ETA: If you haven’t already, read Taking Charge of Your Fertility - I got pregnant my second month of trying after reading and charting.
We had been trying for several months, but when it finally happened, I wasn’t aware of anything. At some point, I realized my period was late and put two and two together. An OTC pregnancy test confirmed it.
If we hadn’t been trying, I would have been totally blindsided by it, since I started bleeding about a week after the positive test and bled off and on for six weeks or so.
Well, thanks for all your responses. I thought I should update…I was indeed pregnant when I posted that! Woohooo. We are very excited. I can’t really believe it, mostly because I really thought I wasn’t going to have any kids…it took me awhile to find Mr. T…
I STILL don’t feel anything really. I’m late, I’ve had two positive tests (one at home, confirmed at the clinic). My breasts are slightly tender. I’m off caffeine – I only had a headache yesterday, day one, and now I’m fine! Wow. I’m not sick at all yet…I’ve been told not to take that one to the bank yet. I’m only about three weeks along. Anyway, here goes!!!
Congratulations!!! You are in for a wild ride, but the end result will totally be worth it!!!