Other benefits of walking include: It aids with maintaining a healthy weight gain throughout pregnancy. It keeps muscles strong to reduce back pain. It helps keep your bowels moving to combat
Feeling lightheaded. Changes in your circulation and hormone levels can leave you feeling lightheaded, more tired, or dizzy from time to time when you're 12 weeks pregnant and at other times during your pregnancy. Wearing loose clothing, staying hydrated, avoiding long periods of standing, and remembering to eat regularly can help you feel better. Don't worry. Many women don't feel anything yet this week. By next week, about half of women will experience symptoms, but most early pregnancy symptoms don't start until about 6 weeks. Tender, swollen breasts. Breast tenderness can be one of the first signs of pregnancy. It usually starts around 4 to 6 weeks and lasts through the first trimester. Week 9. Your breasts will be bigger now and your waist may be thickening a little. Your pregnancy hormones are flooding your body, which may still be causing you to feel unwell. Thankfully this will not last forever. In a month, you'll be entering the second trimester when many people start to feel lots better.