i wanted to know an old superstition?

Question

i wanted to know how do you tell if you are pregant

Answer 1

Pee on a stick ...

Answer 2

With 4 of my 6 pregnancies my husband dreamed of fish is some way and within a couple of days we found out we were pregnant. Doing a search on the interenet will tell you that an old superstition is if you dream of fish either you or someone close to you are pregnant.

I've also heard that if a baby bends over and puts their head on the floor it means someone in the room is pregnant.

Answer 3

I've pasted this text directly because I found it so interesting.

1350 BCE
One of the earliest written records of a urine-based pregnancy test can be found in an ancient Egyptian document. A papyrus described a test in which a woman who might be pregnant could urinate on wheat and barley seeds over the course of several days: “If the barley grows, it means a male child. If the wheat grows, it means a female child. If both do not grow, she will not bear at all.” Testing of this theory in 1963 found that 70 percent of the time, the urine of pregnant women did promote growth, while the urine of non-pregnant women and men did not. Scholars have identified this as perhaps the first test to detect a unique substance in the urine of pregnant women, and have speculated that elevated levels of estrogens in pregnant women’s urine may have been the key to its success.

Middle Ages through the Seventeenth Century
Using visual aspects of urine to detect pregnancy became a popular method. In Europe, so-called “piss prophets” claimed to be able to diagnose many different conditions and diseases by the color of urine. In a 1552 text, pregnancy urine was described as: “clear pale lemon color leaning toward off-white, having a cloud on its surface.” Other tests included mixing wine with urine and observing the results. Indeed, alcohol reacts with certain proteins in urine, so this may have had a moderate success rate.
http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline/timeline.html

Answer 4

You wait until your period is due and then you buy a HPT and you find out. Or you wait until a week before your period is due and you see a doc for a blood test and/or a cervical check. Most of the symptoms of pregnancy are also the same symptoms of your period and a lot of superstious signs of pregnancy are not early signs at all ... things like cravings for pickles, or bubbles in your tummy. These don't happen until you're like 3-4months pregnant.

Answer 5

Old superstitions are a thing of the past.. Nowadays it's called EPT..
But my Mother told me her Grandmother called her 4 different times in her life to tell her she had dreamed of fish.. and each time this happened, my mother was pregnant. Weird huh?
Thank God for EPT... cause my Grandmother is dead...

Answer 6

they used to do something with bunnies to tell if you were pregnant, not really sure what though. That wasn;t a superstition though.

to whoever gave me thumbs down, here is a link about the "rabbit test"

http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/pregnancytests/a/rabbittest.htm

Answer 7

Besides taking a pg test, there are many symptoms. The first ones are breasts enlarge and are sore, and of course feeling nauseated.

Answer 8

Just take an over the counter pregnancy test then you will know either way. My grandmother was always really superstitious and she always said that when you dreamed of death then a birth was going to occur, however my great aunt (my grandmothers sister) always said that she would dream of fish when one of her 7 girls were pregnant so who knows really. just take the test

Answer 9

Take a pregnancy test.

Answer 10

Take a pregnancy test :)

Answer 11

errrrr well missing your periods may be a good place to start then get a test or go to your doctors