Short of breath?

mommytobe87

Soo I'll be 29 weeks Monday and I feel like over the last week or so since I've hit the third trimester I find myself feeling more short of breath randomly and sometimes when not even doing anything...I'm guess this little man inside is just starting to really takeover huh? Haha.  Anyone else notice that the farther along you get?  The other thing is too I've had some random dizzy spells the last few days...wondering if he's soaking up my iron too!?

Thank goodness I've got a doctor's appt today, I feel like I have a laundry list for her today, haha.  Gotta love the 3rd trimester I guess!!

Arielle27

Yeah, this happens to me as well. I'm getting more and more breathless during short walks, walking up stairs, and then sometimes just randomly throughout the day.

Speaking of iron, my dr prescribed me an iron supplement (on top of my prenatal vitamins) to take all throughout the third trimester. I wasn't very good at taking them in the last few weeks (you have to take them with a meal, but not with dairy or eggs - and I am a vegetarian, so that is sometimes difficult), and I found that I was much more weak, dizzy and breathless when I wasn't taking them every day. I'm doing my best to take them every day again now.