by Amber Hulsberg

Created on: June 20, 2008

I do not believe that it is possible for any woman to not know she is pregnant until labor begins! As a woman, we know our bodies inside and out. We know when our menstrual cycle is due, how long to expect it, what, if any, pms symptoms we experience and so forth. There is no way a woman can not know she is pregnant. Did the morning sickness not give it away? Granted not all women experience morning sickness for all its glory, but what about the unexplainable weight gain? The extreme tenderness in the breast? The tightness of your stomach? Maybe you think that those chips have more calories than normal, or that you are pms-ing. Maybe that even though your stomach has gotten bigger that you somehow seemed to gain more adomenal muscles? Come on! Some women do experience a period like cycle, where they will still bleed once a month for a few months, but did you not notice that all of a sudden your period's flow became a lot lighter? Ends faster? Eventually, though, your cycle stops all together...shouldn't that, if nothing else, be your main clue? Isn't pregnancy the first thought that occurs to any woman that is sexually active when her period is late or missed entirely? A woman knows if she even as a reason to be concerned about becoming pregnant when she missed one of her birth control pills and didn't wait a full 30 days for the birth control to right itself again. Or if she had unprotected sex...that is usually your first concern after having unprotected sex, is it not? But, I can give someone the benefit of the doubt that MAYBE you do not know your body as well as you should. What I still find it hard to believe is how do you not know you are pregnant the first time the baby kicks? It is not often that you experience anything remotel feeling like your stomach is being kicked from the outside in? There are times that women have felt "gas bubbles" that can simulate the feeling of being kicked, but as the pregnancy progresses and the child gets bigger, the kicking gets harder. How do you explain that? If you still believe it is a gas bubble by then, shouldn't you be going to a doctor anyways in fear of some gastric blockage? How about when the baby gets hiccups? That is just annoying and it feels as if your stomach as the hiccups. What would cause that? Or if those signs aren't enough to clue you in to being pregnant, then what do you think Braxton-Hick's contractions are? Braxton-Hick's contractions are false or "pretend" contractions. It is simulating labor

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