Conquer Your First Trimester

What to do, what to stop doing: take a deep breath and plunge into the world of pregnancy, says Margot Bertelsmann

- Margot Bertelsmann

YOU’RE PREGNANT AND you’re feeling all the feelings, and we do mean All. The. Feelz – the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s true, along with the extreme joy you may also be feeling extreme confusion, extreme worry, extreme panic… and extremely ill, too. In many ways, these first three months are the most intense of your whole pregnancy. Your body changes very rapidly, and everything happening to you is new and possibly scary. Rest assured that you and your body will settle into this new state of being: it will just take some time. There’s an old saying about facing big challenges: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

So apply these bite-sized chunks of expectant mothers’ wisdom to your life. You’ll soon be the boss of this pregnancy thing.

THE PHYSICAL STUFF

NAUSEA AND VOMITING