Ladies how did you know you were pregnant?

I knew when i gave birth..

I suspected from the moment I conceived. I can tell when I ovulate and I was trying to get pregnant so the combination of sperm plus egg was pretty easy to envision.

I don't know if this is myth or not, but a girl in my town was a rather large woman... she had no idea she was pregnant until she went into the emergency room with stomach cramps and they told her she was in labor!

It happens.

yes it does.

I was 19 the first time I got pregnant.. im sure age had alot to do with it, but i truthfully didnt KNOW i was pregnant until i felt the flutters in my belly.

I have alot of 'female' problems and i could not rely on my period to tell me anything , or cramps, bloating anything..
so it didnt feel diffrent to me at all.
So I was about.. 6 months along before I had any idea.
It was scary.. I will say that..

I can tell when I ovulate too.

Also, does anyone else get this right before their period starts, like a half an hour to 2 hours before? You'll be minding your own business, and all of a sudden you can just feel this "dropping" from the core of your being....it's more than physical, it's almost, well, spiritual too...this awareness of your womenhood.

Sorry crazy, never been pregnant, but it's interesting what J_B said. I've heard that before..Can you describe about how it felt J_B?

I first noticed tenderness of my breasts.

yes ma'am.

It feels... heavy.. in my crotch that morning and then..out of no where, that heavy feeling.. just disappears..
Voi-la..

Ive laid an egg..


I wonder if thats how chickens feel..

How do you know when you ovulate? I thought that was just counting days, you can actually tell??

I call it an 'eggsplotion' because it feels like a violent eruption from my ovary. My heart races and I have to lay (lie?) down for a few minutes. Then it's done.

I used it as a rhythm method of birth control for years. My cycles were fairly regular so I would use a diaphragm in mid cycle until a couple days after I ovulated.

When I wanted to make babies, I skipped the diaphragm part. Worked both times.

You're a sneaky one, J_B

Chai, did you mean describe how it felt to envision the egg meeting sperm? It was kind of spiritual because the prenancies were planned.

This is going to sound wierd but it's based on science. I wanted girls and knew how to improve the odds so that's what I did. Then when I eggsploded I envisioned all those x-chromosome spermlets swimming around meeting my newly released egg. I was fairly sure the first time, I was positive the second time.

coldly calculating, gus

Well I don't think I have ever known when I am ovulating. My cycle changes with the seasons and everything. So it is tricky.

sorry, but that is a damn funny saying

Same thing happened to my Aunts daughter.

Im not very in tune with when my periods gona start, no spiritual signs with me, but ever since ive been on the pill I swear I can pinpoint where my ovaries are.

I can;t take birth control, they put me on it when I was 17 and it went bad. I turned into a monster.. I have a chemical imbalance and it interacted... it was kinda funny... PMS 24/7 with outburts and anger.... they haven't let me back on it since

I love "eggsploded"!

I usually just feel a twinge, when I notice it at all. "Oh, it's the left one this month."

(crazielady, we don't have to give the safe sex lecture, right?)

I tried to get pregnant for almost a year, and just about every month of trying I was certain that was the month. I guess it's possible that I conceived each time and it just didn't "take", but it had me doubting myself when I was again "certain" the month I really was pregnant. There were several signs that came together -- breast tenderness, hormonal wackiness, absent-mindedness, etc. But I wasn't sure until I did the EPT.