While big changes are happening with your baby, things are going at a slower pace with you. You are almost at the end of the first trimester. Your uterus is almost big enough to fill your pelvis and may be felt in your lower abdomen, above the middle of your pubic bone. If you think you feel your baby move at this time, you either have gas or are further along in your pregnancy than you thought. Some women notice changes in their hair, fingernails or toenails. Some fortunately experience an increase in hair and nail growth while others find they lose hair during pregnancy. Some doctors attribute these to increased circulation throughout your body while others feel hormonal changes are responsible for the change. In any case these changes are temporary and there is little or nothing you can do about them.

Your feelings will surprise you - what you feel and how rapidly these feelings change is weird. Your body is doing its best to adjust to the radical biochemical changes pregnancy is putting you through. One moment you are feeling top of the world and the next you are feeling anxious and irritable. The first trimester can be especially hard and challenging for some, what with the pregnancy related discomforts. It is important to remember the phase will pass and things will improve. If your problem persists, then it is possible you are suffering from prenatal depression and would need doctor's help.