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Lack of Pregnancy Symptoms

QUESTION

Hello there.
I'm pregnant with my second child; it's still early days nearly 6 weeks. I know I shouldn't complain but it worries me a little.

I feel absolutly fine!

I have no pregnancy symptoms whatsoever. I was so sick with my first and felt awful for the first 12 weeks. Should I be worried? I know it's a silly question probably! Is it too early for symptoms to start?

ANSWER

Fortunately, every pregnancy is different, and you may very well have lucked out!

It is true that morning sickness usually means that a miscarriage is unlikely, but lack of symptoms occurs in nearly half the pregnancies, so there is not necessarily anything to worry about. You may just be lucky, OR having a baby of another gender.

~Cynthia

Cynthia Flynn

Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.