As your abdominal area stretches, you may notice stretch marks, lines with pinkish or reddish streaks that appear across your stomach. Your skin may also be drier. There are other symptoms that might creep up, such as iron-deficiency anemia and a host of other problems that vary from woman to woman. By midpoint in your pregnancy, your breasts will have become fully functional, ready for breast-feeding. Around the nineteenth to twentieth week, your nipples will secrete a yellowish liquid known as colostrum, a crucial premilk substance that nourishes the baby until your mature breast milk comes in.
Constipation gets worse as the pregnancy progresses.
Even so, hemorrhoids may become unavoidable at this point because of pressure on your pelvic organs and the dilation of veins in your rectum. Another tip is to prop your feet up on a stool when you move your bowels. For remedies, Preparation H, petroleum jelly, or vitamin E oil work fine. Women can experience heartburn all through the pregnancy. It is most common in the last trimester, but it can also start at some point in the second trimester and continue until the end.