Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. ~Carrie Fisher I walked through Walmart, looking for the Quakers Fruit and Cream Oatmeal. I strolled past the different assortment of breads: sourdough, buttermilk, and wheat. As I reached the oatmeal an older woman placed her hand upon my shoulder. I slowing turned towards her, as not to hit my belly on my cart. “Well, aren’t you a little young to be pregnant, dear. You know, my daughter was nineteen when she had her first kid. Her little girl was a cutie too, but not all that nice when she first decided to come out into this world. My daughter was in labor for, oh, about 95 hours I think. Poor thing, two days into it she was begging her little girl to just come out already. She didn’t want an epidural, at first. Then she was all about it,” the older women smiled, reminiscing on old memories, “That poor girl was in so much pain, but I remember how happy she was when her little girl was finally born. Anyhoo, how far along are you?” she sweetly asked. I thought stories like these would freak out any soon-to-be-mom, but I was wrong. When Teresa Hurtado was pregnant with her first child she “had heard lots (sic) of scary stories about labor, but [she] was more excited to be pregnant, [than anything].” There has always been a part of me that knew I would make a good mother. Children, especially babies, have a way of grabbing my heart, but knowing that you have to go through nine months of carrying a baby, giving birth to him/her, then making sure you are a great mother to that baby makes me hesitate and worry a bit. The main reason pregnancy makes me hesitate is morning sickness. It is the most common and classic symptom of pregnancy; it happens around the sixth week after a woman has generally already missed a period. "It was like being hung over, without the fun the night before," said Kelly Nelson, a publicist in Vail, Co. "And it was almost constant.” I’m a crier when it comes to nausea so, personally, this symptom is the worst. There is another symptom that is not as common, but can happen. This symptom causes the woman to have all of the symptoms of pregnancy when they are not actually pregnant Lowering myself down, I squat to sit on my plaid-blue, red, and green-couch comfortably. The weight on my abdomen caused me to have to move around a few times to find a comfortable position. Sydney glanced over at, laughing as she attempted to talk. “You look so awkward.” She was finally able to say. I rolled my eyes, she had been saying this since I first put the belly on. “I’m so hungry, I feel like I could eat a horse.” I signed deeply, rubbing my belly and thinking about the burritos in my freezer. “Girl, you just ate three freakin’ burritos. You never eat this much. How in world can you still be hungry?” “I don’t know, but I’m starving.” I stated while getting back up, and walking towards the freezer. I yanked on the sticky freezer door. I reached inside and grabbed another burrito For women this symptom is called Pseudocyesis or False pregnancy. This condition happens in “one to six out of every 22,000 live births” (WebMed). I wore the belly for four days and after the second day my body started acting like it was pregnant. The psychological factors can trick the body into “thinking” it is pregnant. I got extreme cravings for pizza and pickles and began to have backaches. I interviewed Christina about her current and past pregnancies and she said that “[she] craved Taco Bell during all three pregnancies.” Cravings are caused by a deficiency in the body that happens during pregnancy. T