Model Marriage
How You May Feel
(a) Your taste for food may change. Your favourite foods may no longer appeal to
you, and you may find yourself wanting to eat food that you normally will not go
for. You may now crave for food with sharp fruity or chalky tastes.
(b) Some women find they have a metallic taste in their mouths.
(c) You may feel tired all the time; to the point of needing to sleep during the day as
well as in the evening and at night.
(d) The smell of certain things you normally do not react to may put you off e.g.
perfumes, onions, etc.How to Confirm You Are Pregnant
(a) The surest sign of pregnancy is when you continue to miss your period. Pregnancy
is not the only reason for periods to be absent, but if you have been trying to have
a baby, then it is the most likely.^2
(b) You can confirm you are pregnant by doing a pregnancy test: you can use a home
pregnancy test kit (which you can buy from any pharmacy shop) or, to be very
sure, have the test done at a proper laboratory. Most tests measure the level of
pregnancy hormones in your urine, and the best sample of urine to use for the test
is early morning urine which is most concentrated.How to Calculate Your Expected Day of Delivery (EDD)
Pregnancy usually lasts forty weeks, which is slightly more than 9 months. For a rough
calculation of your EDD, add nine months and one week to the first day of your last period. E.g.
If the first day of your last period was 1st January, then you are likely to be due around the 8th of
October.
Notes- James R. Scott et. al. Danforth’s Obstetrics and Gynecology (Philadelphia: J. B
Lippincott Company, 1997), 503; Stanley G. Clayton, T. L.T. Lewis and A G. O. Pinker, ed.
Obstetrics by Ten Teachers(London: Edward Arnold Publishing, 1986),37 - 40; Margaret F.
Myles, Textbook for Midwives(Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1986), 78 - 80; Christopher
L.H. Huang and Victor Daniels, Companion to Obstetrics(Lancaster: MTP Press Ltd., 1962), 49
- 51; Ronald M. Caplan ed., Principles of Obstetrics(London: William and Wilkins, 1982), 97
- 100, Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff and Sandee E. Hathaway, What To Expect When You
Are Expecting (New York: Workman Publishing, 1991), 3 - 4; E. A. Badoe and S. K. Owusu ed.,
Health and Disease: A Layman’s Guide To Good Health (Accra, Ghana: University of Ghana
Medical School, 2004), 142 - 144; T. L. T. Lewis and G. V. P. Chamberlain, Obstetrics by Ten
Teachers(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990), 33 - 34.
- Derek Llewellyn Jones, Everywoman(Lagos, Nigeria: Academy Press, Plc., 1994), 132.