Pregnancy: How It Affected Me

Pregnancy: How It Affected Me
Like many women, my biggest desire has been to be a mother. In September of 2003 I had a miscarriage and ever since then I have been trying to have a child, six years in total. I tried everything that I was told would help. I even purchased an Ovuscope. It’s a little microscope that you spit on to tell you if you are ovulating or not. I even prayed everyday for it but nothing I did seemed to help. I finally just gave up. I thought that maybe I just couldn’t have kids.
It was the beginning of June 2009 that I thought I was pregnant so I took an in home pregnancy test. It was positive! I couldn’t believe it so I took another one, and three more after that. They were all positive. I made a doctor’s appointment and a few days later my boyfriend and I went and found out that I was just six weeks pregnant. I started doing everything differently. I didn’t want to risk another miscarriage. I didn’t at that time how much pregnancy would change me in so many different ways.
Pregnancy may affect other women differently than the way it affected me. Studies show that it affects everyone differently. Some women experience morning sickness. It can happen at any time of the day, not just in the morning. It’s just a nauseated feeling usually accompanied by vomiting. I didn’t experience any morning sickness at all. What I did experience was fatigue. Again, not all women experience this but I did. Being pregnant just takes so much from you. Sometimes I could have slept all day. I got hungry a lot more often, of course. Some women have these weird cravings like pickles and peanut butter. I didn’t have any weird cravings other than just food in general. Parts of my body that had never hurt before started hurting. My pelvic bone was one of them. If you have ever been hit in the pelvic bone then you might know what it felt like at times. It got hard to sleep at night because of the pain in my hips. Of course my figure changed. I gained a total of fifty...