Baby Bellies and Beyond

I have fond memories of the day I found out I was pregnant. I woke up at 5am that September day and just felt very off. I did not want to get dressed and I felt over emotional. I thought I was just getting the flu or a cold. As I lay huddled on the couch  wrapped in a blanket as if it were 5 below my dear husband was leaving for work, he asked if there was anything he could get me on the way home and I said a pregnancy test. The look on his face was priceless. You could tell the thought never even crossed his mind. Well obviously if you read my info that pregnancy test was positive. I never felt so great in all my life after seeing those two pink lines. I felt the excitement of Christmas morning over and over again. But I was thinking today, as many women do, wonder if I could be pregnant again. We were not trying the first time, who knows I may be right now and not know it. Then I began to think about pregnancy tests in general. I wonder when were they invented??? Before the pregnancy test did women just walk around possibly noticing the absence of a menstrual cycle but not be 100% sure they were pregnant? Did they just wait until they had missed 4 maybe 5 cycles to truly believe they were pregnant. Hum… or maybe they had no idea until one day their ankle length skirts no longer fit and their hidden breasts became more apparent. I just wonder how I would survive if I had been pregnant in say 1920. You could not find out the sex of the baby I am sure calculating a due date would be highly unlikely and you could never be 100% sure that your growing abdomen was due to a pregnancy until delivery day. I am glad I am child bearing in the year 2008 what about you?!?

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