As you are completing the first trimester you maybe coping with your forgetfulness, and also learning to love your changing body.
Forgetfulness during 3rd month of pregnancy
You will have a lot of things going on in your mind. As a result you may develop forgetfulness. You may have placed something just a minute before and forgotten now. You may be searching madly for it for around half an hour being clueless. Memory is definitely affected during pregnancy. Though the definitive cause has not been traced, Pregnancy hormones, stress and lack of sleep are considered some of the contributory factors.
Women in their second trimester of pregnancy who complained of memory problems had lower blood levels of the neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) nor epinephrine, epinephrine and serotonin as compared to non-pregnant women.
You feel helpless and confused when you misplace things or forget appointments. Don’t stress your memory unnecessarily. To cope up start writing notes, stick to routine like placing certain things in certain places only, use an electronic organizer or advance phone call reminder for service appointments. In this manner you can stay reasonably organized even during this hectic schedule.
Feeling Good About Your Changing Body
Do not get too obsessed with your weight goal. Checking your weight at every appointment is a routine and should not be a test where you pass or fail. Remember that it is the only source for your doctor to make sure that your baby is growing on time. Do not compare your weight with others who have delivered before you. Comparisons can affect mind set.
Weight goals were different in earlier days. Ideal pregnancy weight today is fifteen to twenty pounds more than earlier times. So do not brood if older relatives, friends and relatives talk about their own minimal weight gain and return to pre-pregnancy weight. Weight gain should be individualized to a mother’s Body Mass Index. Remember low birth weight babies are the results of inadequate weight gain.
This is the right time to buy yourself some maternity clothes if you haven’t bought them earlier. Pick up something that is stylish, comfortable and makes you feel good.
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Since three months I don’t have my periods regularly two months back it lasted only for two days (my normal period last for four days) then last month also the same, but now in this month periods didn’t came till now and my weight is also increasing, I am scared. Please help, no vomiting, nothing and I don’t want to get pregnant I am just 22.
You have to rule out pregnancy by using urine pregnancy test, if you are sexually active. You can use home pregnancy test or collect first morning sample of urine and send it to a lab for pregnancy test.
If your wife desires to have sex and there are no complications in the pregnancy, it should be ok to have sex. But be informed that due to certain hormonal changes during pregnancy, your wife experience of sex may not be the same before she got pregnant. Also, depending on the stage of pregnancy (months pregnant) you may want to try different positions that would make the intercourse enjoyable and not painful or something that may hurt the fetus.
It is common to get fatigued, and exhausted in first trimester of pregnancy. Pregnancy can put lot of strain on your body.
Hormonal changes, particularly the progesterone levels increase during this period, possibly due to this change a feeling of tiredness is present in first trimester.
Nausea and vomiting add up to this problem, as mild to moderate dehydration takes place when present. Take your doctors advice if she has nausea, or vomiting in this period.
Simultaneously rule out Anemia or Depression as the underlying cause, and correct them if present.
There are few adjustments she can follow to cope with tiredness during this time.
- Take a cat nap in the afternoon hours. Even it can be of 15 minutes nap
- Make sure she eats healthy diet, made up of pulses, cereals, fruits, beans, milk and milk products, with dry fruits if she is vegetarian. Add meat, fish, and egg, to her diet if she eats non vegetarian food.
- Try to cut working hours.
- Cut tea and coffee intake, and let her drink plenty of water.
- A regular short walk in fresh air will energize her system.
The feeling of tiredness becomes less in second trimester.