As your pregnancy develops, your thoughts will start to linger on the birth. What pain relief do you want to use? Do you want a water birth? Would you like your partner to cut the umbilical cord? Having a baby is a very individual and personal experience and it’s important that you put your thoughts, ...
Pregnancy is amazing and being a mother is incredibly special, but to get from one to the other, you need to give birth and that’s the bit most of us aren’t so keen on. Few of us relish the thought of giving birth to our baby. Yes we can’t wait to meet the individual we’ve ...
Elastic, celebrity super mums we are not. Bouncing back into size 8 jeans just days after delivery is not the norm, trust us. It takes nine months to make a baby, so don’t expect your body to bounce back over night Bleeding, stretch marks, shrunken breasts and a baby belly are just a few of ...
The camera has never been particularly kind to me. I am not one of those photogenic women who stares soulfully down the lens, chin tilted at just the right angle, managing to look both hip and formidable at the same time. I am far more likely to be the only person in the photo with ...
words by Lucy Pearce Many moons ago, when you saw that blue line on the pregnancy test, you were given a date, a magical date, carefully conjured up in a high-tech way by an internet site calculator, or in a low-tech form by your doctor with a little plastic wheel. In went the date of ...
Dads at the birth. Words by Lucy Pearce Life-changing is a word that comes up a lot when you ask dads about their experience of watching their babies come into the world. ‘I couldn’t have imagined the intensity of the experience.’ says one father-of-three, who attended all of his children’s births. ‘In fact, I think ...
The old adage about baby ‘popping out’ can often be wide of the mark. No matter what you think you’ll do during labour, or what your birth plan says, it’s very important to remember that, when it comes to labour, things often don’t go according to plan. Going with the flow It’s realistic to make ...
