Small signs can be seen

People with experience with pregnant women will discover small signs about the woman. These signs may be a special glint in the eyes, or redness of the cheeks, a slight green glimmering of the ears or a very silent plopping of the toes. All these signs may be psychological, if the woman knows about her pregnancy or got some empathic feelings regarding her child, or these signs may come from the first changes of the metabolism. Sometimes a midwife will tell a woman, even before the woman herself knows it, that she is pregnant.

Depending on the ddp of the race, this period may last till the end of the pregnancy, for a few days only or happen not at all.

First Problems or Less Obvious Signs

The pregnancy can be seen by all, who realy take a look. A midwife will recognize the signs immediately, and others, without special knowledge can recognize them, if they look for them (e.g. hands have grown, eye color has changed, complexion is different from normal, the woman looks allways out of breath). Added to this may come changes to the body, that cause problems, like morning sickness, bad dreams or a limp (the feet are to big). These changes may be psychological or physiological and may or may not be treated whith herbs, magic or psionics, without harming the unborn child. The eating habits may have changed slightly or dramatically (e.g. eating vanilla ice on hamburger or tjam-tjam with urgh)

Recongizable pregnancy and real problems

Everyone looking at the woman will see under normal circumstances, that she is pregnant. The belly will be enlarged, even the breasts, the hair may have gone thicker and look great. Or the arms have grown to the inside to be able to already hold the child save. If normal nourishment occured, the woman will have gained wight, except when the children are fed directly from the body of the woman or for example, the woman has grown roots, to nourish herself and the child directly from the soil.

The changes of the body or possibly the mind will effect all of the woman’s life, walking may have become a bit harder, eating habits may have changed again (to better or worse), or she may have become touchy. Other people may be careful about her.

Not all ddps will have such a period especially 1 and 2 are unlikely. For ddp1 this may be the beginning of either their greatest power or the decline of power. Backaches may start

Becoming Heavy

This will be the last stage of the pregnancy. The body will not feel good anymore and a lot of human women will wish, that the pregnancy should be over soon, please, especially when it is hot outside. The mind may stop working completely, except for the vital parts. All the problems from the last stages of pregnancy probably increase or are replaced by totally different ones. A woman in this stage will be most vulnerable and easy prey for any predator. Some races will not get to this ddp, even races with a ddp of 3. On the other side, even woman from races with a ddp of 1 or 2 may experience this and could feel very uncomforable for a short time. Races with a dob of 1 or 2 are unlikely to get into this stage.

Examples

Human: Elira got her morning sickness rather early, but was through with it after two weeks. A friend of hers startet getting sick only in the second month but kept going until the sixth month. Elira was quite happy, that she was spared from this. Her eating habits were not changed much, except that she started to eat lots and lots more, when her seventh month began. But one occurance happenend nonetheless: One night, even the city guard was gone for the guard houses, she woke up and had this sudden urge to eat a big, raw piece of meat. They had no meat at home, therefore she woke up her husband, that he could get her some. He was not very eager to stand up and get the meat. In the end Elira was fast asleep again, before her husband was evendressed.

D'deepiens: Kachkach changed her eating habits dramatically from the first day on. She stopped eating vegetables and started to eat insects. The pregnancy slaves were coming and going all day long, to keep a steady flow of food for the pregnant women. From the 6th month on, she stopped moving around and became even more hungry. Her wrists would not have fit into the mouth of a hungry lion (at last, that was, what Kachkach thought).

Date: 2016-04-22; view: 814