10 Unusual Pregnancy Symptoms No-One Tells You About!

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Here Are Ten Of The More Unusual Pregnancy Symptoms

1. Your Hair Doesn’t Fall Out

My hair doesn’t fall out any more: pre-pregnancy, it used to fall out all the time. Despite the fact I still had so much of it, I’d constantly lose lots of it; strands on my hairbrush, in the plughole, even on the floor. And now it doesn’t. This is common, according to my hairdresser, and is often followed by most of it falling out post-birth. So that’s something to look forward to then! But for now, I’m ignoring that and am happily making the most of having lots of thick hair

2. Agonising Leg Cramps

Agonising leg cramps, where your calf muscles seize up, are an unusual pregnancy sign no-one tells you about. I’ve been woken up so many times by the agonising pain of my calf seizing up. My husband frequently wakes up to me hopping around the room trying to make it feel better

3. Being Really, Really Thirsty:

I’ve always drunk lots of water but since getting pregnant I’m really thirsty, all the time. I’m glugging so much water but still thirsty.

4. Dehydration Headache

And no matter how much water I drink the day before, I’ll always wake up with a desert-dry mouth, and dull, throbbing headaches later on if I don’t drink enough of it that morning

5. Vivid Dreams During Pregnancy

I’ve been having incredibly vivid dreams and nightmares in pregnancy – the type where you have to claw your way back to consciousness, out of breath, and then you remain convinced they’re ever-so-slightly real for ages after. Vivid dreams in pregnancy are definitely a pregnancy symptom no-one tells you about!

6. Disturbed Sleep

I knew that growing a little person makes you tired: in the first trimester I’d want to go back to sleep as soon I’d woken up, and would often be in bed by 9.30 (unheard of for me). But even now I’m happily on my way towards the fifth month, no matter how tired I am I’ll wake up in the night and then won’t be able to go back to sleep for at least an hour. It’s annoying and frustrating! But hey, I suspect it’s a just a sign of what’s to come later on.

7. Food Aversions

I knew I might crave certain foods, but I didn’t know I’d go off them. Food aversions in pregnancy – where you can’t face certain foods – are apparently very normal, who knew? Mine have mostly been fruit and veg I loved previously, such as tomatoes and avocados. However, they come on really quickly – usually once dinner is already cooking.

8. Crying All The Time

I did think I’d be emotional during pregnancy, but I’m a hormonal wreck! Anything makes me cry, from adverts to seeing cats in the street.

9. Having A Very Dry Nose

Having an uncomfortably, stuffy nose is one of my unusual pregnancy symptoms!

10. Being Very Clumsy

I swear being pregnant does something to your spacial awareness – I’m constantly dropping things!

If you liked my post on unusual pregnancy symptoms, here’s my pregnancy week by week, a snuzpod bedside crib review and a Greentom Upp stroller review

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