Lie down with your head lower than your body or sit with your head between your knees until the dizziness subsides. In the last trimester, the increase in the size of the baby results in the most common discomforts of this final phase of pregnancy. Mom s center of gravity has shifted and she may be somewhat clumsy. A stressed utero-sacral ligament and the increased size of her adbomen throw her body out of alignment and can cause chronic backache. Her inability to sleep increases fatigue and irritability as she becomes increasingly anxious for the pregnancy to come to its end.
Most women experience shortness of breath to some degree that tends to worsen in the last trimester.
The growing uterus crowds the lungs and presses on the diaphragm, denying it the ability to expand. Two to three weeks before delivery the baby settles in to the pelvis and mom can breathe more comfortably. Other changes that occur after the baby s head drops into the pelvis are a decrease in heartburn and indigestion and an increased feeling of urinary frequency. These annoyances let mom know that her body is getting ready for birth. She may also experience an increase in the heavy whitish vaginal discharge knows as leukorrhea.