First Trimester Symptoms

I remember a week or so before the positive test, I was EXTREMELY exhausted. I was so confused at just how exhausted I felt. My brain felt so dead and I could barely understand what words were coming out of people’s mouths. I remember being on the phone with a coworker and trying to walk through some tasks she was working on. I had to say something like, “Sorry, I have no idea what you just said, can you please say that again?” I told her I was so exhausted and she said I was working too much. I told her I really wasn’t and I was getting a lot of sleep. I had no idea what was wrong with me.

The following week I had a work trip and I knew it would be around pregnancy test time. I got home from my work trip and decided to do a test. I was in shock. It said positive. HOWEVER…I had left the test strip for 20 minutes or so because I forgot about it and was unpacking and cleaning up the apartment a bit. I read that if you leave the test for too long, it could falsely say positive. So I did another test because I was in disbelieve…and 2 more…because they were all turning up positive. I checked the expiration date on the tests. Not expired. I ran to Dave like a kid on Christmas and told him the news. I told him I want to get a First Response test to really make sure. First thing the next day, I got the test. It was positive. I was ecstatic.

I continued to be pretty tired. I think there was a week straight where I fell asleep on the couch right after dinner and slept pretty soundly until the next morning. Dave said he hadn’t seen me that tired in a long time.

I felt nauseous for a while but thankful never sick enough to throw up. There was one occasion I ran to the toilet, dry heaving but didn’t throw up. I think it may have been because I didn’t eat for a few hours. Another unfortunate thing was that when Dave would try to rub my shoulders or head, I felt like I was going to throw up. My go-to phrase to Dave was, “You’re making me sea-sick”. I felt bad because he was just trying to be nice but I couldn’t handle it.

Everyone asked about cravings and I guess I did have a craving…I really wanted nachos all the time and ate them for lunch pretty much every day. I honestly don’t know if I craved it or I was just using pregnancy as an excuse to eat one of my favorite snacks all the time. One thing I did know was that my mind missed healthy foods and how I feel when I eat healthy, but I just didn’t want them. I decide to just eat what I wanted to eat and try to eat some veggies when I could.

Overall, I was tired, had a little bit of nauseous (but no throwing up), didn’t want to eat healthy, and sore boobs. Sometimes I wished I had more symptoms so I knew more was happening, but I know so many others struggle from sickness and worse so I feel pretty lucky.