"I Thought, 'Is It The Weather?'": Moms Are Sharing The Wild, Weird, And Wacky Ways They Knew They Were Pregnant Before Even Taking A Test

Everyone knows the telltale signs of aboriginal pregnancy, specified arsenic nausea, fatigue, moodiness, etc. But gestation symptoms tin beryllium much bizarre than a newfound emotion for pickles. These types of symptoms, however, are improbable to look during net searches due to the fact that they're conscionable SO random. Sometimes, adjacent recently expectant parents themselves won't recognize they were indicators until aboriginal on...

1. "I ne'er knew gestation could springiness you tinnitus!!"

2. "I developed a ringworm-like rash each implicit my body, isolated from my face. It started arsenic a dot and grew bigger and redder. My lad is present 7 months old, and it disappeared days aft helium was born. I inactive don't cognize what it was."

—d.libbyk24

3. "I couldn’t basal the sanction of the thoroughfare I lived on. Hearing the connection 'Kirkwood' made maine physically sick. I tested affirmative an hr later."

—user29347181923

4. "I kept getting nosebleeds. I had ne'er had a nosebleed before, truthful I thought, 'Is it the weather?' I was 5 months pregnant."

5. "My wrist started hurting, truthful I searched online to find retired what was happening. Turns retired it was Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and it tin amusement up successful the hands during pregnancy. I was pregnant."

—daniel__ashkenazi

6. "'Air hunger' — the feeling of not getting capable air. It’s horrible. I've had it during some my pregnancies, and it starts astir instantly due to the fact that of the hormones."

—livlemon

7. "I abruptly had excruciating limb symptom to the constituent I could hardly walk. The infirmary had nary thought what was wrong."

8. "My feet grew fractional a size — I'm not talking astir swollen feet, they ne'er swelled. My feet grew successful length, I nary longer had immoderate shoes that fit."

—crystalneysha

9. "My woman permitted maine to share: She was letting retired the foulest farts 1 night, the odor lingered for hours. We joked and wondered if this was the denotation that she was pregnant. She was, successful fact, pregnant."

—watalemiclaw

10. "Extremely vivid dreams — not adjacent astir babies oregon pregnancy, but SO vivid I woke up convinced they were real. One morning, I was looking for my non-existent puppy."

11. "Tried to shade my partner, with whom I live, and for perfectly nary reason, conscionable woke up and 'chose violence' each day. A person convinced maine I was acting unhinged and told maine I should instrumentality a test."

—jocelyngreig

"Instantly became repelled by my spouse for the archetypal six to 8 weeks. I was disgusted if helium adjacent looked astatine maine funny."

—angelninja898

12. "The fig of times I sneezed wrong a time was ridiculous. I was not sick, but I was incapable to discontinue sneezing."

—jessicajedidiah

13. "After being a vegetarian for years, I couldn't spell into a butcher store due to the fact that I would instantly gag astatine the sights and smells. I walked successful 1 time and said, 'Oh my gosh, it smells truthful bully successful here!' I had a affirmative trial the adjacent day."

14. "All of my gums would profusely bleed erstwhile I flossed (I’m usually a regular flosser), truthful it was strange. On an unrelated note: I besides had a monolithic craving for peppers. They had to beryllium pickled oregon spicy."

—monitaneang

15. "I abruptly had a weird feeling travel implicit me. I don’t adjacent cognize however to explicate it. I woke up 1 greeting and thought, 'Something is different.' I thought I was going into psychosis until I took a test."

And arsenic a small bonus, present are six mind-blowing times different radical told caller moms they were large earlier they adjacent knew it themselves:

16. "My play was already late, 1 of my preschoolers looked astatine maine dormant successful the look and said, 'Miss Hailey, what’s successful your belly? ' I tested affirmative that night."

17. "My older neighbor, who had been dealing with delirium, told my hubby I was pregnant. We’d been trying for 7 years, truthful helium conscionable laughed. Three days later, we recovered retired we were expecting."

—tylerleagroom

18. "I tested and told my mum I was pregnant. She told maine she already knew due to the fact that 2 days earlier (when I didn’t yet cognize I was pregnant), my grandad told her helium had different great-grandbaby coming. Turns out, said great-grandbaby is successful my belly."

19. "My brother, who was 17 astatine the time, told maine retired of the bluish that I was large and it would beryllium a girl. I ignored him.

"A week went by, and I took a test. Sure enough, it was positive, and I aboriginal recovered retired she was going to beryllium a girl. She'll crook 4 this December!"

—madisonliaa_

20. "My feline was ever clingy, but she began taking it to a caller EXTREME. One day, I kept dozing disconnected astatine random, and each clip I woke up, she was adjacent to my belly, truthful I felt inclined to instrumentality a test. I was so pregnant."

—1kosmikae

21. "My friend's hubby tin odor pregnancy. (I don't cognize how). He says women conscionable odor antithetic erstwhile they're expecting. He told his woman some times she was large earlier she knew, and helium told maine I 'smelled' large with my second."

Did immoderate of these little-known gestation symptoms astonishment you? Parents, what was a bizarre mode you knew you oregon your spouse were pregnant? Tell america successful the comments oregon reply anonymously utilizing the signifier below!

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