For many women, connecting with their baby during pregnancy doesn’t come quite as easily as they thought it might. Perhaps you feel a little awkward during pregnancy, or maybe you feel as though you have to wait until your baby is born to start connecting with them. When I was pregnant, I had debilitating Hyperemesis …
Labour and birth can be likened to running a marathon. You wouldn’t just rock up on the day and hope you make it to the finish line. You wouldn’t prepare yourself mentally, but completely skip the physical prep. Regular exercise in pregnancy is known to promote easier labour and birth. No one could deny they …
When you think of what life is going to be like when you’re pregnant, there are all these ideas of beautiful moments with your husband, planning the nursery together, cooing over your growing belly – it all seems like a blissful time. How could you possibly drift apart? But with pregnancy comes all kinds of …
I don’t know what it is, but when a woman has a baby, everyone forgets how to make conversation with her. It’s as if staring at a new baby for too long makes their brain switch off and the mouth blurts out strange small talk one-liners. ‘Is he a good baby?’, ‘How does he sleep?’ …
I’d love to be able to say that I was one of those glorious women that loved every moment of their pregnancy. Who were energised by the life growing inside of them and radiated happiness. But I wasn’t. At all. I’m not ashamed to admit that I hate being pregnant. And I don’t feel guilty …
From the moment you see those two little pink lines show up on the pregnancy test, you can feel your whole world changing. No longer are you just ‘you’, you are growing a tiny little baby inside of you. It’s both absolutely amazing and downright scary. I look back to the start of my first …
When I was pregnant with my second child, I had a whole lot of people tell me how much more difficult it was going to be (funnily, none of those people offered any kind of help either… but that’s another post for another day). Of course, I realised things were going to change, but there …
There are so many articles and well meaning advice out there about what to do before your first baby arrives. After all, you’re saying goodbye to that time when it’s just your partner and yourself and saying hello to a time when you have a small human totally depending on you for everything. I get …
They say every pregnancy is different, and while I know this, I didn’t really know this until I was pregnant for the second time. To say that my second pregnancy was different to my first is a massive understatement. You prepare yourself for the morning sickness and all day nausea, but don’t expect the fatigue …
Grab the popcorn, cancel your plans, set your phone to ‘do not disturb’ and settle in! This isn’t just a slideshow of birth videos – as cool as they are. We’ve compiled a list for you of 7 of the most thought provoking, game changing, eye-opening and informative birth documentaries and films from the last …