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Safe Baby Sleeping Practices
If you are expecting or are the parent of a newborn, do not fear – there are well established, commonly agreed upon measures you can take to drastically reduce the chance of something happening while your newborn sleeps. In fact, since safer sleeping practices have been adopted among parents, there has been a steady decline in infant mortality since 1990.
Baby Milestones Up To 1 year
As soon as your baby arrives, you will be wondering how they will develop over the coming months and years. The anticipation of the baby’s “firsts” is something that parents all over the world await with excitement. From the first cry, first smile to step, these small gestures melt every parent’s heart. Learn what to expect when in these all important milestones
Optimal Positions For Labour
During labour, staying active and adopting different positions greatly help with managing labour. This often comes naturally from a deeply intuitive place and will vary depending on the stage of labour and how much energy you have at the time.
Earliest Symptoms of Pregnancy
Whilst the most common way of finding out you are pregnant is by using a home pregnancy test, many of us will only take a test because we’ve experienced certain symptoms that have made us wonder…
7 Subtle Signs of Labour
So you have been preparing for the new arrival for months now and you are looking forward to holding your baby in your arms. Labour starts in many ways for different women – some won’t feel any contractions until their waters break and for others their waters don’t break until they are deep into their labour!
Would you notice if these 7 subtle signs of labour start happening?
Relax, you’re in labour!
One of the most important things that you can do to help yourself in labour is to learn about relaxation and we’re going to look at just how and why relaxation could help you…
Coping With Morning Sickness
It’s one of the most well-known symptoms, one of the earliest signs and one of the worst parts of pregnancy, but (on the plus side!) it’s also a sign of a healthy and well established pregnancy.
Top tips to calm a crying baby
Assuming you’ve met his basic needs and he isn’t ill, hungry or in need of a clean nappy, you could try some of the following tried and tested methods for calming your crying baby…
New baby? Your survival guide to the first week
After the exhilaration of the birth, the joy of meeting your newborn and the relief that your pregnancy is over, it’s time to crack on with the business at hand – being a mum!
First things that happen when your baby is born
It is a good idea to know what is expected during labour, and also to learn what will happen immediately after birth to you and your baby.
Pregnancy Tips for Dads
Pregnancy Tips for Dads! Well this is it - you're going to be a dad. You're one half of the dynamic due that has created this new life and whilst your partner will have the task of carrying the baby and its delivery into the world, your role is to give support and be...
How will pregnancy affect your skin and hair?
We’re hoping that you’re not feeling too sick, or too tired and that as your pregnancy progresses you will positively bloom!
How to clean the umbilical cord on your baby
New parents often worry about how to care for the umbilical cord stump on their newborn baby. Here’s some advice.
What you need to know about gestational diabetes in pregnancy
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar that develops during pregnancy and usually disappears after giving birth. It can occur at any stage of pregnancy, but is more common in the second half. It occurs if your body cannot produce enough insulin – a hormone that...
Don’t stop now! Keeping labour going
So, after a long 9 months of waiting, don’t stop now! keeping labour going…. the worrying and anticipating is over, finally your contractions begin!
Is this the last taboo? – Anxiety, depression & emotions during pregnancy
The truth is that pregnancy, birth, motherhood, it’s EMOTIONAL. If you have been affected by any of these things please know that you are not alone and there are organisations that can help.
Coping with Common Symptoms of the First Trimester
The first 0-12 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy is called the first trimester. To help you cope we have devised a list of the most common changes and discomforts and how to effectively deal with them.
Breastfeeding for Beginners
Every baby is different, every new mum is different, and even if you’ve breastfed successfully before, you may find it more tricky second or third time round or vice versa. In that sense, we’re all breastfeeding beginners.
A Healthy Diet for Pregnant Women
As well as impacting your own short term and long term health, good nutrition before and during pregnancy is important for the growth and development of your baby and forms the foundations of their later health. What supplements are needed in pregnancy? If you are...
Changes to your body and emotions after giving birth
After giving birth to your baby, you will find that you go through a number of changes physically and emotionally. Here we discuss what those changes are and how your partner/family can help in the early days.
Top Pregnancy Tips by Trimester
To give mums to be a helping hand, midwife Maggie Evans to help parents navigate through the nine months with handy tips for each of the three trimesters
Feeding your baby – a quick guide for mums
Tips and advice on how to feed your baby
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We've all seen it happen in the movies and on our favourite TV shows, but what is the reality like? Is it a gush? a trickle? Will it happen at all? Here Amina explains... https://t.co/JwUddFjczA
Pregnancy can bring a whole range of questions & worries. Being pregnant during a pandemic that is affecting so many can understandably cause even more anxiety & worries during such an unprecedented time.
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Sometimes labour can come to a grinding (and very disappointing!) halt.
We’ve got some fab advice from One Born Every Minute’s Lesley Gilchrist from her book ‘The Bump, Birth and Baby Bible’ on keeping those contractions coming!!
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