Pregnancy heartburn is very normal Women are more susceptible to heartburn during pregnancy due to hormones relaxing the muscle that keeps your oesophagus closed. According to the HSE, around eight in 10 women have heartburn during pregnancy and it’s more likely to occur in the final trimester. It can feel like a burning pain in […]
1 year ago
What was your worst pregnancy symptom? During my first pregnancy, it was morning (or all day) sickness. I couldn’t keep anything down. On my second pregnancy, it was lightheadedness. A parenting forum put the question out to mums everywhere and here were the most common answers. One symptom that many mums were unanimous on was heartburn. […]
3 years ago
I have had two dream pregnancies – literally have not felt as healthy and full of energy and just amazing as when I was expecting my two babies. I did not have any morning sickness, no tiredness, no swollen ankles, no nothing. The only thing I had was heartburn. And boy did I have heartburn. […]
6 years ago
Ouch…heartburn. It is one of the most common complaints in pregnancy: that super-irritating feeling of burning acid can last for months and, for many of us, make life deeply unpleasant – especially in the last trimester. Although many mamas-to-be suffer at the hands of acid reflux in the last trimester of pregnancy, some feel the […]
7 years ago
While morning sickness is one of the most common symptoms in the first few months of pregnancy, heartburn seems to be the most uncomfortable side-effect for many women in the final months. I would have happily swapped the continuous nausea of trimester one for the heartburn of trimester three, as I swigged Gaviscon straight from […]
11 years ago