Hey folks! Knowing whether it's time
to take a pregnancy test can be tricky, amiright? Maybe it's just me,
but I find it a cruel joke of nature that many early pregnancy
symptoms are the same as PMS symptoms: bloating, sore boobs,
irritability, spotting, and I'm sure the list goes on. So, for fun, I
thought I would share some of my common (and not so common) symptoms
that told me I should probably test! And, you know, officially
announce that we are expecting baby #3! (Not that 3 is a lot, but
this is the last one. Seriously.)
*Really sleepy in the afternoon.
Between 1 and 3 o'clock, I get super tired. Sure, lots of people do,
right? But listen, y'all. I never
take naps. Maybe, maybe
a few times a year. It's not even because I already have two little
kids. (Although it certainly doesn't help. Ha ha) I've just never
been able to take naps easily. I knew when I was ready to legit try
to take a nap in the afternoons, something was up. I actually got so
upset one day that my 4 year old wouldn't let me take one while her
sister was sleeping that I cried. Which leads me to my next point...
*I've been extra
hormonal and over-reactive. As for the crying thing, I hardly ever
cry. Like, maybe a few times a year. I'm more likely to cry over a
sad movie than something in real life. I've over-reacted to at least
a couple of things too. What's messed up is that I realize I'm being
irrational, but I continue being mad over something anyways. Oh. And
I guess I should note that I don't usually get like this around my
period. (Not since I was in high school, anyway. ;) )
*A
pretty obvious sign was my elevated BBT. (Basal body temperature.)
I've been tracking this for several months now. At first, I was doing
it just to see if I was even ovulating or not because my cycles got
really whacked out again after I had Ripley and had to stop nursing.
Plus, we weren't exactly “actively trying”, but we weren't not
trying either. Anyways, according to my thermometer, my normal body
temperature is around 97.3-.4. It was elevated for almost a week,
above 98 F, which was strange.
*My sinuses have
been extra crazy. There are some mornings where I usually wake up
with them bothering me (probably because we sleep with a fan on :/),
but my nose has been extra leaky in the mornings. (Sorry. Gross, I
know.) I was like this with Myka, too. I actually thought I was
catching I cold when I found out I was pregnant with her!
*I haven't been
sleeping well either. I tend to go through bouts of this, but it's
just been different somehow. I can't remember with Myka, but I
definitely went through this with Ripley in the first trimester too.
Sleep bad at the beginning, sleep bad at the end!
*This is going to
sound really weird or crazy, but that's ok. A few times, especially
if I am standing up from sitting on the floor, if I do it too fast,
twist weird, or something I get a sensation that can best be
described as “pulling something”. Kind of like pulling a muscle,
but the sensation only lasts a few seconds. I had this with both
previous pregnancies and joked with John that it feels like I'm
“pulling my uterus”.
The Walmart cheapies work just as well as the name brand tests, if not better, ladies! Ask anyone on Babycenter too if you don't believe me. ;)
*Ah, the frequent
peeing...I never really had this with the girls, but it has been
hitting me hard this time already. One day I went before I took the
kids to the park and still felt like I had to go again before we even
left! We went to the zoo that week as well. It takes about an hour to
get there and I went before we left. I still had to stop at the rest
area and go on the way! Even though I know it's caused by hormonal
changes in early pregnancy, I always thought women were full of crap
who said they had to use the bathroom a lot in the first trimester.
Whoops!
*And
the icing on the cake was....Getting a sunburn on a rainy, cloudy day
at the beach! Totally legit. I peeled and everything! (Now that I
think about it, guess I'm not going to get to wear that brand new
swimsuit very much now. :/ Figures since I finally gave in and bought
one!)
My family all
thinks I'm crazy, but I get more sensitive to the sun/prone to
burning when I'm pregnant. (I know I'm not the only one out there!)
It seems like it gets worse with each pregnancy too! Guess it's a
good thing this is the last one. I'm already feeling like a vampire
after last week. Who gets a sunburn on a day where it's so cloudy
that it rains off and on?!
For pretty much
the entire week after Father's Day (and my husband's birthday week),
I kept getting the nagging feeling I should take a test. I especially
thought it would be fun to find out on, obviously, Father's Day or
John's birthday, but I kept talking myself out of it because, ahem,
we hadn't really “done much” that month. What were the odds?
I
finally said something about it to John Friday and we talked about
how it was pretty
strange how much sun I got at the beach and the kids didn't (Their
little red cheeks and noses were gone the next day.) and that he was
just thinking that morning that he had a feeling I should take a pee
test. (He is the reason I took them the first two times and found out
about both pregnancies! Ha ha) Lo and behold, I picked up some
cheapies at Walmart (seriously, ladies, they work just as well as the
expensive name brand ones!) Saturday evening and got a very obvious
positive!
Ok, I didn't mean
for this post to get THIS long, but it's hard not to get excited
about something like this, right? What led you to finding out you
were pregnant in the past?
