I am 7 1/2 weeks pregnant and I have noticed that I’m not going to urinate as often as I was when I was first pregnant. Can that symptom come and go or is there something that I should be worried about. I’m not drinking that much less fluid than I was when I was first pregnant. The first 5 weeks or so i was geting up 3 and 4 times a night…now it is more like just once. Should I just drink more fluids?”
Extra trips to the bathroom are one of the earliest signs of pregnancy, and they usually
start in a few weeks after conception. Those early urges are a side effect of your
body’s retaining fluid to use to develop an amniotic sac and new blood vessels that will connect to the umbilical cord, placenta and your uterus, instead of taking blood from your uterine lining as the fertilized like the implanted egg did. All this activity will also make your uterus rapidly heavier and push it into your bladder. When the development’s complete and your baby has its very own circulation system at about six weeks, your urgent and frequent urges to pee (and also your nausea) should ease up too.
But once vessel development is in place and your fetus will have its own circulation system. By the second trimester your baby bump will be growing forward and up instead of right on your bladder, and that will be a relief.
But as you move from about the 22nd week towards delivery, the pressure on your bladder will return as the baby gains weight and you have to “pee for two” for a bigger and bigger baby. You also have to go more at night while you’re trying to get to sleep as the fluid that’s built up in the lower part of your body makes its way into the bladder.
In any case, peeing a little bit less is nothing to worry about, as long as you’re going at least once or twice a day and staying hydrated. It can’t hurt to drink plenty of water, and when you’re peeing, lean forward to ensure your bladder fully empties each time you go.
