Morning sickness or 'all day and all night sickness', involves feeling nauseated and possibly vomiting. It is one of the most common physical complaints of early pregnancy and is due to your body's reaction to the high levels of pregnancy hormones in the body.

The most obvious sign that lets a woman know (or suspect) she is pregnant is missing her menstrual period.

Some newly pregnant women become extremely fatigued during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Gruelling headaches tend to happen in the early days of pregnancy thanks to the abundance of hormonal changes in the weeks after conception.

Dizziness can be common in early pregnancy, though fainting - also known as syncope - tends to be rare.

Here are seven of the most common, often unpleasant, ailments during pregnancy and tips on how you can treat them and when they might require some medical intervention.

Many women will complain of needing to pass more urine during early pregnancy.

Most pregnant women will receive confusing and conflicted advice about drinking alcohol during pregnancy. So what are pregnant women risking if they drink alcohol?

Pregnancy requires dramatic changes in blood flow, the most obvious being that which occurs in the uterus and the development of the placenta to make a baby grow.

Stomach bloating, constipation, or both are common first trimester pregnancy symptom, which tends to reappear again in the last trimester.

Many women experience bloating, mild cramping and slight backache as a pre-menstrual physical symptom, and the same thing happens in early pregnancy as the uterus grows.