The first trimester runs from week 1 of your pregnancy to week 12.
The doctor counts the weeks starting from the last day of your last period.
We were actively trying for a baby so as soon as the nausea kicked in as well as my heightened sense of smell. I had a suspicion I was actually pregnant!!!!!
Don’t get me wrong I was thinking is this like the placebo effect and I think I am pregnant as it is on my mind.
However, law and behold I was expecting. If you want to find out how we found out we were expecting read my blog post on this.
First pregnancy symptom – Nausea
I would say by week 2 after period, my first symptom was the nausea.
We were walking to Tesco one evening (yeah I know such a British thing to say) but I felt a sudden rush of nausea.
I remember bursting out laughing as he had no idea I had symptoms and I didn’t want to get his hopes up especially if I was imagining it all due to wishful thinking.
Trust me you can think you are pregnant and you are actually not. That’s perfectly normal!!!
From that day my next symptom was being really disgusted by the smell of my mom smoking . It smelt unbearable!!
So with the nausea and heightened smell sense I was really suspecting these could be the signs of pregnancy.
Light headed and pregnant
The next symptom I experienced was feeling faint and light-headed.
I remember being a work and feeling a bit light headed.
I felt almost like I wanted to faint on numerous occasions.
Abdominal cramps and pregnancy
I then started experiencing by week 3 or 4 lower abdominal cramps and there I thought oh I may be wrong and maybe my period was about to come.
It felt exactly like period cramps to be honest.
Pregnancy and food aversions
I was experiencing complete food aversions so basically I didn’t enjoy the foods I usually do, they tasted different and the nausea didn’t help with me wanting to eat.
Everything I loved eating now smelt and tasted totally different all of a sudden.
Missed period and pregnancy
However, by week 4 the big giveaway was that my period was nowhere to be seen. I have a very regular cycle and this is highly unlikely!!
At this point with all the symptoms combined I had a strong feeling I may actually be pregnant.
Free boob job and pregnancy
My boobs suddenly when from a cup B to a full cup C which is great!!!!
I can’t lie but this is the best symptom of pregnancy.
I decided to tell my fiancé I thought I may be expecting at this point and voilà we were actually already expecting which I was so shocked with.
So overall, I would say my early pregnancy symptoms included:
- Nausea
- A heightened sense of smell
- Feeling faint and light headed.
- Food aversions
- Lower abdominal cramps
- No period
- Bigger breasts
- Bloating
As the days progressed and we had a positive pregnancy test, my symptoms included the following from weeks 4-12:
- Nausea but no vomiting
- Couldn’t stand a lot of foods and smells
- Bloating
- Headaches
- I couldn’t stomach drinking still water so I lived off sparkling water.
- Usually I love sweets and to be honest till this day they make me feel sick after I have them.
- I had 3-4 bleeding episodes (spotting which I had in previous pregnancy too, however please get checked out if you do experience this)
- Craving salty foods
- Lower abdominal cramps
- Fatigue for the first 12 weeks! I was falling asleep at 7pm!!!!
- Increased urination.
- Emotionally I have been very calm but very sensitive I could cry from happiness or get sad when I usually wouldn’t.
I think all these are caused by the hormones and increased blood flow.
Like all these were not enough by week 7-8 I ended up getting Covid and had a fever for 2 days. I managed to recover by the end of the week, but that’s another story.
I just ended up being so exhausted!!!!! But luckily with the my hubby’s vitamin drinks I was feeling better.
My first trimester symptoms first pregnancy vs second pregnancy
I would say that my two pregnancy first trimester symptoms were similar and only a few symptoms were different.
With my first born I had nausea to the point I would projectile vomit out of nowhere.
I could barely stand any food smells without wanting to vomit.
Whereas, this second pregnancy I just felt nausea but never ever ended up vomiting.
With my first pregnancy I could drink anything but with this second one I could not stomach water at all!!!
With my first pregnancy I loved eating anything sweet but with my second one I just really can’t stomach sweets, I much prefer salty food.
With my first pregnancy I wasn’t bloated at all whereas with my second I totally was.
Also I started to show much earlier with my second pregnancy. With my first I started showing at 24 weeks and it was a tiny bump , whereas with this one by week 12 I started to notice my lower abdomen showing.
These were the differences I experienced with the two pregnancies.
I want to share my bump progression from week 1 to 12. I put it all on one because there’s no bump at all so there was no point sharing them one by one.
These were my first trimester symptom’s, what kind of symptoms are you experiencing or were you experiencing? Comment below and let me know.
