With my first child I did not know I was pregnant until I was almost 3 months. I have been working and going to school so intensely that I was not paying attention to my period. At the time, my periods ran like clock work. That I believe was just me not paying attention to my body. I also have a high tolerance for pain, so I know for a fact I had ignored every symptom I had with my daughter.
With my second child (my son), I knew that I was pregnant before the pregnancy test said positive. There was a favorite restaurant in my neighborhood I visited frequently ( for the special sauce). Anyway I went to my usual place ordered the food I always ordered and I could not even finish the first bite before getting sick. All of a sudden, the very smell of the food turned my stomach, and I could not understand why. At first I thought it was food poisoning, but quickly realized that was not it because I did not have all of the symptoms. Like a ton of bricks I also realized that I was a week late for my period and at the time it was still regular. So I bought the first HPT test and it was negative, and I decided to wait a week. This was the longest week of my life because daughter (first child) just turned 8 years old at the time. She was 2 and a half weeks overdue and 29 hours of labor. Nobody thought I was going have anymore children (especially me). After that week of waiting was up, I finally worked up the nerve to go to the Drug Store and bought 6 Hpt's test and a pack of cigarettes. (At the time I did smoke them even though they were never around my daughter.) I became so nervous that I could not go to the bathroom and I regret to say I smoked a cigarette just so that I can go. Obvious to say, I did not finish that pack or that one cigarette that I lit because, not even 30 seconds later did the Htp test turn positive. Consequently I forgot that I had my friend on the phone and she I guess she figured out what was going on, because the next thing I tried to do was call my husband and I couldn't understand why the phone didn't work until she called my name. I told her I would call her back, call my husband and told him to come home now we need to talk. I know I freaked him out, and he did get home within the hour, but during that time I had took 4 other Htp test with the same results. When got there I showed him the results them finally read the box that said "all test turn positive after ten minutes" So I took that test with him there ( maybe I was hoping it would say negative at the time, I was kind of still in denial) and of course it was positive. The only other reason why I was freaking out about this, was because I believe that we were not financially ready for another child. I'm happy to say we made it work. This time around I believe we are more financially stable to have this one which is why we were TTC since Aug. of 2010.
With this pregnancy now, I took the Htp test without thinking about it because I thought it was going to be negative. Every since my husband and I began to TTC, my period became extremely irregular. I went without a period from Sept.27th to Dec1st with negative Htp. January it was on time, February was 10 days late, March I was heading into 3 weeks late. I thought it must be stress but I will take the test to prove to my husband that I was right. After I went to the bathroom, my son started to cry about something so I washed my hands and went to check on him about a minute later I came back into the bathroom to do something (I forgot what that something was now) I saw a positive Htp test. Again I called for my husband to come (except this time he was just in the living room), I showed him the test and the rest was history. Needless to say that were both very happy about this, I just wish I had done that after work instead of before work. I could not focus on my job the whole day and that is a big no no for working where I work.
I knew I was pregnant with my 2nd baby (lost my 1st to mc June last year) before I even got my positive HPT. I got my 1st positive HPT at 9 dpo. Also had no symptoms, I just knew!! :)
I don't even know why I did a HPT that day, just did one out of the blue. I didnt get my hopes up either. I took the test left it in the bathroom, completely forgot about it. Went to the loo an hour later and had a faint pink line.
Sometimes you just get the feeling :)
Am now 9wk3d and already beginning to show!!