The Top signs of being pregnant would include the following in the below list

1. Missed period

2. Nausea and vomiting

3. Breasts Soreness and swelling

4. Frequent urination

5. Unusual Cravings

6. Changes in skin color

7. Stretch marks

8. Enlarged abdomen

9. Stomache movement

10. Certain Mood Swings

   During my first pregnancy there were some things I didnt experience in fact I didnt even know I was pregnant until the fifth month. I still came on my period,well it would start heavy for a couple hours then light and immediately completely stop minus some light spotting. It happened like that up until my fifth month but I didnt think anything was wrong. I felt a little movement from time to time but thought it was the food I ate that created it, how wrong I was.

   When I finally did go to the doctor I was thinking I was maybe a couple of weeks because I only weigh about 120 but to my surprise I was already halfway through my pregnancy. My second visit to the doctor I got to see the ultra sound photo of my baby boy who had been hiding inside me for months, I saw his face. My boyfriend had been telling me from the beginning to get a test because I was pregnant but I was naive and didn't think it possible because I didn't feel it. I guess the experience is different for every female because I never experienced any of the signs above but the cravings. I'd always planned on my first child being a girl but I was happy having a boy just as much.

   I was told when I found out that I was indeed five months pregnant that the baby would have a low birth weight so I was doing everything to prevent that from happening including trying to eat more than normal but I was having a hard time taking the prenatal vitamins my doctor prescribed because even though the pregnancy didn't make me sick the vitamins did. Later around my third hospital visit I was told I had high blood pressure, I had never had high blood pressure before so I was taking my vitamins plus the high blood pressure medication and was under a lot of stress due to other problems.

   Seven months into my pregnancy the day I went into labor I had just returned home from visiting my grandmother, earlier in the day I was feeling fine,just coming down from having a cold. Later that night I tried to eat some soup and I took some nyquil for my cold but I couldn't lay down, I was unable to lay down because every time I did it I felt like I couldn't breathe. I called 911 after I talked to my mother because I knew I wasn't in labor but that there was a problem. When the ambulance showed up my blood pressure was way high, I was fine during the drive to the University of Illinois hospital but upon arriving at the hospital ten minutes later things took a turn for the worse. By the time I was placed in a room I was in a panic because I felt very strongly that I couldn't breathe and me and my baby were not going to make it. I couldn't sit still, it felt like nothing was coming out of the oxygen they were giving me, I was begging and screaming for water but the doctors told me I couldn't have any. They placed IV in my arms but I couldn't sit still so I started pulling them out screaming for help. My boyfriend showed up and I tried to calm down but couldn't, the next thing I know I was waking up the next morning with the nurse standing over me telling me I had given birth to a son. I thought he was still in me so I was very much confused, they had done a c section. The next question was if he was alright, they told me he seemed as though he would be okay but they were monitoring him and I should work on getting better because I was in horrible state with IV still in my arms and hand. I wanted to see him, his father saw him everyday and though I was in the hospital I could not see him because of my sickness. I didn't get to see him until six days later, he was so cute, a full head of hair,bright skinned but really tiny. I felt so bad but he was a strong little baby boy and grew and made it through everything.

      We didn't get to take him home until a month later, it was Easter Sunday when he came home, he was born on March 2,2009. He was absolutely adorable, we had bought him so many clothes and were every anxious for him to come home along with his brothers and sisters. When we first got him home I couldn't seem to put him down, every time he cried me and his father came running. I got the late night awakenings,changing the dirty diapers, the screaming because he never cried he just screamed and if he saw one of us coming he'd quiet down quickly. I never knew I could love anyone as much as I love my son. My shopping experiences became all about him and his clothing took over the closets.

   Our son died May 3,2009 of SIDS. If I would have known that he'd not wake up again I would have done everything to keep him from going to sleep and I would have stayed awake myself as long as I could. His father was not home when it happened, I remember trying to give him CPR when finding out that he wasnt breathing, It was the most horrible night of my life and I wanted to die with my son. In the hospital we had been told about SIDS but never thought of something like that happening, the only photo's I had were the ones taken in the hospital and all the memories. Sometimes it makes me feel better to think of him but at other times it depresses me because i can see the face he used to make when he laughed, the way he used to move his lips to ask for his bottle, the faces he gave to others he was not used to seeing, singing to him at night, and the feelings I got and still carry from the night the nurse told me he had passed and let me hold him one last time.

      A baby is a blessing so if you are reading my blog trying to figure out if you should tell your parents you are pregnant, or trying to figure if you should have a abortion,think about the child's life because while our Chion was only here for a short time he touched a lot of people. We had him cremated and he is here with us, I cant seem to let him go but somehow I feel he isn't free unless I do. But I also feel if we let go of his ashes that he'll be gone for good, I don't want him to be gone for good and I want our next child to be a boy as well so we have been looking into this guide that can help pick the child's gender before conceived, lots of people have told me that this works well, there are many testimonies, we have all the clothes and everything for our next baby boy and are working on that now, although we plan to have another boy we will always tell him about his big brother Chion, We don't want to look at it as replacing our Chion because he can never be replaced.