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husband went to a meeting in the church and when he came back
home he brought for me one of my favourites foods: chicken and
chips. He knows that I love it!. He expected that I would enjoy
it as I always did in the past but when he opened the door and
he showed me the food I said, “YUCK!!!”. I could not look
at it, smell it, be close to it, I felt so upset in my stomach
! At that moment, I didn’t know that I was pregnant and that this
was the reason for not being able to smell this kind of food.
My hubby said “Wow, you really have to be sick to not eat your
chicken and chips” *smile*.
The first noticeable symptom of pregnancy might be anything
from a slight change in skin colour to a violent atypical reaction
to a familiar scent or a favourite food like my case. The first
faint hint often proceeds the missed period by several days
(surprisingly when you’re regular in your periods). Other symptoms
can be clear signs of pregnancy, sometimes in early-pregnancy
breast tenderness, the bluish veins on the breasts tend to stand
out more and the nipple area darkens. May you experience lots
of headaches as I did.
There might be an increased urge to urinate... going to the
bathroom every five minutes ! and in somecases can be painful,
too. Of course the well known “morning sickness” (all day sickness
was for me!) that cause nauseas and vomiting, sometimes you
may feel just nausea or vomiting or both at the same time. You
may feel more tired than usual and that will persist more often
throughtout the first twelve weeks of your pregnancy or even
in your whole pregnancy. Anyway, because of the advance of medicine
there are tests that allows you to know if you’re pregnant or
not in a matter of minutes. Approximately in five or seven days
after you missed your period you can perform a home pregnancy
test, you can buy this in any drugstore. This test gives you
a positive or negative answer with a 98% accuracy. I was so
nervous the night before to do this test that I hardly slept
at night and I get up at 6 at the morning to do the test and
when I saw that was positive I turn on the lights and wake up
my hubby saying: “It’s positive, it’s positive!” *smile*.
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