Are You Pregnant?

How did you know you were pregnant? What symptoms did you first experience that led you to think that you might be carrying a child? Did you accept it right away or did it take some time to sink in?

As for me, when my menstruation did not come when it was expected, I didn't suspect pregnancy right away. At that time, I was also slowly gaining weight from eating too much fastfoods and leading an almost sedentary lifestyle. I was also under a lot of stress, studying day in and day out for Medicine. At first, I just thought that my hormoned simply could have been jammed and I might have been delayed or simply skipped a cycle.

But when two months passed without a single drop of menstruation, I bought myself a pregancy test. I knew I had unprotected contact a couple of months ago, but I was too confident then that my periods would always be predictable. I had used the calendar method for quite a long time already, and it hadn't failed me - yet.

Failure of the Calendar Method

I've had regular, monthly, fairly predictable menstruation cycles for what seemed like forever, and I'll admit that for a long time, I've relied a lot on the calendar method for contraception. This method, also called the rhythm method, assumes that you will be able to predict your "fertile days" based on the average length of your cycles. So, if I could have predicted when I was due to ovulate, then why did I get pregnant and why am I now suddenly a mother? What went wrong, or you might say, right?