I get a lot of questions about ‘what does pregnancy feel like?’, I work with a lot of young people, people who just finished sixth form college and going off to uni and no way near ready to even start to think about having a baby. I’m only 17 week so I’m 1/3 way through it at the moment but I wanted to answer that questions and tell you a little more about my experience. Maybe you want kids yourself but not sure about being pregnant or got a friend who is starting on her journey and want to give her a little guide. I’m going to do this in bullet point to help me write it clearly.

This is NSFW or for men eyes.

• The first thing you notice is – yes the missing period, it help if you know when it due and when it late.

• I woke up one morning feeling so nausea and a really bad stomach ache – that was my first sign.

• The very early weeks of pregnancy, once you confirmed it with a test and everything is all good. It feel like a massive period will explode in you, it feel like you going to have a massive period in you. If you suffer from bad period pain, the womb part feel really achy and very uncomfortable, basically you don’t need to worry as everything  is stretching to accommodate the fetus/baby. Get a hot water bottle and lie down or take paracetamol to ease the pain.

• Nausea, in the early day I didn’t suffer for it – but boy am I making up for it now! Morning sickness is a pain the neck, I get hunger pain and if I hasn’t eaten I will throw up on a complete empty stomach. I know there is some women who suffer from it and affect them, my advice would be to keep a cereal bar on your bedside table or have a drink. Now in the latter part I wake up feeling nausea so I have to eat something as soon as I wake up.

• Loo/toliet. The placenta/baby sit right on top of your bladder making you go more often then you like too – sometime your up all night emptying that bladder. Even now I have the problem, I heard it get better mid/late pregnancy, I hope so.

• Weight, that dress you love might not fit you anymore which is a bummer! You will put on weight and you will got up a size in clothes.

• This go without saying, eat healthy as you must remember – what you eat the baby will eat as well.

• Once you reached the 2nd trimester you will find your pelvis will stretch and become a little uncomfortable, this normal and it not the nicest of pain.

• Antinatal clinic, you will have in total 4 antinatal visit, but you might have more if they classed you as high-risked. I find the midwives to be really lovely people and will answers any questions on earth.

• You become more hairy, yes this a gross part of being pregnant, lol you develop hair in places where you think no hair would grow. I heard it will fall out which pregnancy it over.

• The best part is when you go for your scan, you get to see your baby. Both time we (hubby and I) we seen our baby hiccup and wave at us. I treasure those moment.

• But by far the best and the amazing feeling is when you get little flutter in your stomach, it feel like a feather is tickling you inside your stomach. I LOVE those moment and it really make you feel so good. That when you know there a little baby growing in you and you know that everything you been going through make it so worthwhile.

If you have any questions then please feel free to ask, the good the bad or the ugly I really don’t mind. Feel free to ask in the comment box below.