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What causes fatigue during pregnancy?


The feeling of fatigue and exhaustion during the first trimester of pregnancy is absolutely normal: as a woman's body gets used to the physical and emotional changes, fatigue will then fits quite regular. During pregnancy, the woman's body receives an additional burden, as the new life gradually develops inside the female body. Hormonal changes and increased levels of the hormone progesterone cause further depletion and fatigue increases due to morning sickness, and ailments that during the first trimester is experiencing an absolute majority of women.

Usually, these symptoms begin to disappear by the end of the third month of pregnancy, and women experiencing emotional and physical recovery in the short term. The excess energy is observed for long - a sense of fatigue appears again with the beginning of the third trimester, this time for other reasons. Throughout the third trimester of fetal weight is gradually increased, the body is forced to cope with the increasing load. A pregnant woman is suffering from sleep disorders, frequent urination and other consequences of the increasing in the size of the stomach, which causes fatigue.

It is important to note that in some cases, the physician should be consulted when the feeling of fatigue persists throughout the second trimester of pregnancy. It is possible that fatigue - it is a signal of health problems, for example, depression or anemia.