“Baby, I think am pregnant”.  This is a statement that for many couples, once stated, evokes several responses. Most of the time the man involved would ask, “Are you sure?”. This definitely requires the woman to give several reasons to support her suspicions. So question is, how did couples proceed in the era before conventional medicine, when there were no lab tests, no ultra sounds, no contraception and sex was probably more rampant than present? The manifestations of pregnancy are many and we shall group them into three for discussion: