Many women don't anticipate they're pregnant until their period doesn't come. But there are other symptoms to look out for:

• emesis and/or feelings of nausea
• a strange taste in your mouth, sometimes described as 'metallic'
• breast tenderness, tingling and enlargement
• the small 'bumps' on your nipples becoming more obvious - these are 'Montgomery's tubercules', which secrete an oily fluid in preparation for breastfeeding
• stomach pains
• weariness
• constipation
• needing to wee more often
• going off certain things, such as coffee and fatty foods