You know you're pregnant when _______.

I buy orange soda.  When I get pregnant I really want it, especially in the beginning.  That's been my first clue in past pregnancies.  I never want it when I'm not pregnant.

Only the traditional vomiting. It starts as soon as implantation occurs and lasts a month AFTER the baby is born. I can't eat bacon or anything flavored with bacon while pregnant or I'm immediately sick.

VERY odd cravings with my first I wanted sauteed mushrooms and onions before I knew I was prego. I would also have to go with sense a smell I can smell the meat department the second I walk in the grocery store and it is in the very back.  I would have to hold my breath and run to get meat, cover my face with my shirt, or send my oldest to get meat for us and double bag it. 

I always knew I was pregnant from the extreme exhaustion I felt. When I almost fell asleep driving home with ds in the car on a warm day, I stopped at the store for a test.  

I cried easily and my anxiety was worse, especially with dd's pregnancy after my m/c, when I would sit and worry I would find myself mindlessly pulling out strands of hair. I was very happy when she was finally born.

My sense of smell was also out of control, but each pregnancy was different. With ds, I couldn't have coffee in the house at all, I made dh stop for coffee on the way to work every morning. With dd, I had no issue with coffee (I think i was too darn tired from running around after ds and needed my cup a day), but I almost lost it in Costco when a roasted chicken was in our cart, dh had to take it away fast. Both of those smells will still upset my stomach when I am feeling hormonal.

With ds, I bought a case of mandarin oranges at Costco and ate them for lunch every day for two weeks, my coworkers thought I was gross. With dd, I practically survived off of Carl's Jr. I had ds and was babysitting a toddler and never ate enough during the day and felt awful and desperate for food by the evening, so dh would pick it up for me multiple times a week. I'm surprised dd wasn't born a zucchini fry.

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Originally Posted by melsb 

My sense of smell increases like by a 1000.

Exactly same here - i say that EVERY THING stinks. Gag!  

When I was first pregnant, our car was new and yuck that new car smell made me gag and cry . Cry - for i had no choice, but to go in the car.  We used to drive with the windows down, but the humidity in the state made me gag more.  

For 3 months I was a vegetarian too because I could not smell any meat.

With me, it was the bread aisle. It made me just want to hurl!

I'm an emotional person in general, and when pregnant it was way worse!  Same thing as you Swishina, would cry at the dumbest stuff.

My sense of smell and taste were heightened too.  I could taste the plastic on food that had been in a plastic baggie, actually still can taste that. 

Before morning sickness set in I was always starving.