LANGLEY MATERNITY CLINIC

Morning sickness doesn't just happen in the morning. Some women get all-day (or midday, afternoon or evening sickness) during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and occasionally, for even longer.

Pregnancy can cause a metallic taste in your mouth. This is likely caused by pregnancy hormones, which can produce an absence of taste, or a metallic taste during pregnancy.

Your body produces more mucus when you’re pregnant, which can result in a stuffy nose, sinusitis, headaches, and increased normal vaginal discharge. The hormone progesterone also causes swelling of the nasal passages, which can cause your nose to bleed or you to have difficulty breathing.

Your water doesn’t usually ‘break’ in a large pool at your feet—it usually ‘breaks’ in a gradual seeping flow that feels more like peeing yourself. What’s more, only 1 in 10 women have their water break before labor begins. Most of the time, your water will break just before the second stage of labor (the pushing stage).

Various sources indicate that only about 5% of babies are born on their actual due date!

Baby girls develop all of the reproductive eggs they will ever use while in their mother’s womb. Baby boys don't develop sperm until puberty.

Some babies are covered with a fine, sometimes dark, downy hair called lanugo. This hair may be all over—even on the ears and chin! Usually this hair will fall off before birth, but if it doesn’t, it will most likely disappear in the first few days/weeks.

A baby is typically able to smile a real smile at about one month old. Any ‘smiling’ before then can most likely be attributed to gas!

A baby uses an average of 8000 diapers from birth through to toilet training.

If your pregnancy is normal and low-risk, then it is very safe to have sex while pregnant. Changing hormones make it absolutely normal to experience both increased and decreased sex drive at different times throughout your pregnancy.