You know you're pregnant when ...
So pregnancy tests are in the news again. At Netmums we know there are some other less scientific tell-tale signs that often go hand-in-hand with those little blue lines.
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20 signs that give away a pregnancy ...
1
You can't pass a buggy in the street without peering in to coo and fuss over whichever poor mite happens to have crossed your path that day.
2
You find yourself weeping inconsolably at sad songs on the radio and that ad on TV where they wave goodbye to the baby meerkat.
3
You cry when you find out you've run out of ice cream because you REALLY need some NOW.
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4
You use your hands to ease your boobs out of your bra at night because they're so sore and heavy.
5
You have the hunger of a ravaged beast... but everything you eat makes you sick.
6
You find yourself eating dry crackers at 4am.
7
Every other thing you Google includes the words 'pregnant' and 'normal?'
8
Sleep is the one thing you think about all day long and the thing you want most in life over almost everything else.
9
In fact you want it so badly you sleep on the floor of the disabled loo at lunchtime just to catch some extras zzzzs.
10
You burst into tears because the shopkeeper was a bit brusque with you.
11
You feel like doing a victory dance because you manage to poo after being so horridly constipated for so long.
12
You phone your husband to announce the fact you're happy because you managed to poo.
13
You wake up in the morning just as exhausted as you were when you went to bed at night.
14
The very sight of a jar of green olives in the fridge makes you want to retch... and cry again.
15
Anyone talking to you after they've been drinking coffee results in you puking on their shoes. Oh dear. I'm SO sorry!
16
Breakfast simply has to be an egg sandwich, a hot chocolate and a pickled onion. Nothing else will do. You don't know why everyone doesn't try it. It's a taste sensation! Really it is.
17
You keep sticking out your tummy and looking at it in mirrors and shop windows to see if you have a bump yet.
18
You cry because there's not much of a bump yet and you just feel fat and blobby.
19
You shout at your husband because that jar of green olives is STILL in the fridge.
20
You cry because you shouted at him and feel like a raging bag of hormones.
