For those who eagerly await pregnancy news every month, this story might be helpful. I want to share…

For those who eagerly await pregnancy news every month, this story might be helpful. I want to share how I found out about my third, unplanned pregnancy. My husband had planned some renovations in our apartment, so I decided to stay at our country house with the kids for two weeks before the school year started, while he and a friend worked on the renovations. I left on August 19th. Suddenly, I started experiencing daily lower back pain and cramping in my lower abdomen, like I was about to get my period, even though my period was still 10 days away. I thought I had a spine issue, as I have a protrusion in my lower back, so I bought a massage ball to roll on it daily and loosen up my muscles. Then, around the same time, I developed acne, and my facial and scalp skin became oilier. I felt weak and sleepy, with no energy at all. So, I decided to take an energy supplement that a friend had given my husband. One day, on my way back from the office, I missed the bus that goes directly to our house. I decided to take a different bus and walk the remaining 2.8 km home. I love walking, especially in the beautiful summer weather; I even run 4 km on the treadmill, so this distance is nothing to me. But! By the time I got home, I thought I was going to die. I was short of breath and felt extremely weak. 'Am I getting old?' I thought, not even suspecting for a moment that something else was going on. When the end of August arrived, I didn't pay much attention to the first and second day of my missed period, as my cycle had been irregular before, with 1-2 day variations. By the third day of my missed period, I started suspecting something was wrong, but I blamed it on the supplements I was taking for energy. They were specifically for men, and the label warned they could disrupt the menstrual cycle in women. On the fifth day of my missed period, I went for an ultrasound because I'd had lower back pain and cramping for three weeks straight, and I thought I might have an ovarian inflammation or something similar. And what a shock it was when the ultrasound showed no gynecological issues! They suspected a pregnancy of 4 weeks and sent me for an hCG test. In my previous pregnancies, I had no pain at all, so I never imagined these symptoms could be signs of pregnancy. My hCG level was 3727, indicating a pregnancy of 4-5 weeks. Exactly at 5 weeks, I started experiencing morning sickness with daily vomiting. And that's how I found out I was going to be a mom of three, and we'd be having another baby boy. Condoms can fail, and you can never be 100% sure about contraception.