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. Heartburn is a burning sensation in the middle of your chest or upper digestive tract. It's caused by progesterone, which relaxes the muscle that controls the opening at the top of the stomach. Progesterone also causes the stomach, which is pressed upward by the growing fetus, to empty more slowly. The bottom line is that the stomach doesn't work as well as it should.