Health Tools

Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.

	Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems.
	Multiple Pregnancy: Should I Consider a Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction?
	Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition.
	Depression: Managing Postpartum Depression
	Pregnancy: Dealing With Morning Sickness

Symptoms

If you are pregnant with more than one fetus, you can expect to have the same symptoms as those of a pregnancy with one fetus (called a singleton pregnancy). But the symptoms may happen earlier and may be worse. A multiple pregnancy is likely to cause:

• Early and excessive nausea and vomiting in the first trimester.
• Extra weight gain.
• Backache.
• A uterus that is larger than expected for your due date.
• More fetal movement than expected during the second trimester and later.

Pregnancy: Dealing With Morning Sickness

Later in the pregnancy, you are more likely to have:

• Varicose veins.
• Constipation.
• Hemorrhoids.
• Increasing backache.
• Trouble breathing (caused by pressure on the lungs from the uterus pushing up on the diaphragm).
• Indigestion (caused by pressure on the stomach from the large uterus).
• A very large belly
• Gestational diabetes.
• Preeclampsia, a serious disorder of circulation and blood pressure that affects both mother and fetuses.
• Preterm labor.