During sleep, you may start to snore. Pregnancy hormones can cause the membranes in your nose to soften and swell, thus leaving you much more likely to snore at night.

You should stop wearing underwire bras as they may restrict the growth of the milk glands in your breasts.

Those pregnancy hormones are speeding up your metabolic rate, making you feel flushed and sweaty in temperatures you coped with previously. Dress in looser, lighter clothes and drink sufficient water.

Pregnancy brings about itchy tummies. This may be due to your skin being stretched taut as your belly grows. Also, some pregnant women get itchy feet and hands.

As soon as your pregnancy is confirmed, you need to enlist your name for antenatal classes.

Morning sickness is twice as bad on an empty stomach, so eat a snack when you have to get up to go to the toilet during the night.

Plan your holidays carefully. Most airlines won’t let you travel after thirty-six weeks, and from about twenty-eight weeks you won’t be allowed to check in without a doctor’s certificate.

All the chemical changes going on in your body may mean you start to give off a new, warm, alluring odour. This could suddenly give your favourite perfume a subtly different scent.

You really don’t need to panic about labour. Learn from your friends, and female family members about their labour stories. It's better to be aware of what to expect rather than get a big surprise story to tell when you're experiencing labour.

Being pregnant doesn’t mean you have to give up on exercise. All you have to do is reduce your time spent on each exercise activity. Those who stop exercising in their third trimester can actually gain more weight than those who don’t exercise at all (no, that’s not an excuse to do nothing in the first place!).

You may suddenly feel like having sex often or go off it altogether. You could find your extra sensitive breasts and vulva trigger multiple orgasms or make you wince at more than the slightest caress. Whatever your experience, rest assured that you’re normal and these are temporary changes you can learn to live (and love) with.

At about twenty-eight to thirty weeks, your body fluids increase, as a result, your feet can swell up, which makes your shoes tight.

During pregnancy, your body needs to absorb plenty of iron from your food, but the caffeine in tea can hamper that process. Avoid tea and coffee.

The cells around your cervix soften as your pregnancy progresses, and this, combined with hormonal changes, can cause a milky discharge. Don’t panic if you notice some vaginal discharge. Unless it’s thick, green, smelly or bloodstained, you don’t need to worry about possible infections.

It’s time to start thinking about childcare. Visit nearby child-care centres, look around for local and good child minders, and talk to other mums about the pros and cons of each. This is not a time to make decisions and don’t pay a deposit for a place as in most cases, it's non-refundable if you change your mind later. All you're doing now is to gather as much information as you can.

The sounds your baby hears best when she’s in the womb are in the frequency of a human voice. Tell your baby stories and sing her songs. Research shows babies respond and relax to stories and songs they’ve heard several times in the womb.

You’re either genetically disposed to get stretchmarks or you aren’t and there’s not much you can do about it. However, don’t stop massaging your belly with lotions and potions and all that stroking will make you feel good and your baby will love it too.

By thiry-four weeks, your baby is bathed in a red glow whenever sunlight hits your tummy.

It’s much easier to establish breastfeeding if your diet is the same before and after the birth, because your baby will recognise the taste of your breastmilk from when she guzzled similar-tasting amniotic fluid in the womb.

You need to keep your calcium intake up, but that doesn’t mean you have to go on a full-fat dairy binge. There’s as much calcium in skim milk as in full-fat or light milk (if dairy products don’t agree with you, look for calcium-enriched orange juice, soya milk or water).

Expect lightning flashes of anger, moments of uncontrollable weepiness and times of inexplicable fear. You’re not going mad – you’re pregnant.

Unfortunately, pregnancy amnesia is incredibly common and can include anything from being slightly absent-minded to full-on major memory loss.