If you are pregnant, the hormones in the bodv send different signals to the uterus, and the result is that the endometrium (lining of the uterus) stays in there, instead of coming away in a period.
Sometimes you can have a period-type bleed even if you are pregnant. If you do, it s usually lighter than normal. We hear of women who sometimes have several ‘periods’ when they are pregnant, and consequently don’t know they are pregnant for months. This is pretty uncommon. Most pregnant women don’t have periods.
The hormonal changes associated with being pregnant can cause other bits of the body to feel different. Common symptoms include:
• Nausea, and sometimes vomiting. This usually starts, if it is going to a couple of weeks after the missed period. More on this later.
• Urinary symptoms. Pregnant women will often feel the urge to wee more frequently in early pregnancy. This is also a symptom associated with a urine infection, but then there is usually pain on passing wee, and sometimes blood in it.
• Fluid retention. Like an exaggeration of the common premenstrual bloated feeling, some women notice that they seem to gain weight in very early pregnancy. This is not because the growing embryo is big. In fact it is tiny. Again, this is due to a change in the hormones floating around the body, as a result of the pregnancy. These hormones can cause fluid retention.
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