This is the week that you may start to feel your baby’s first tiny movements. If you haven’t felt a thing, don’t panic; it’s also possible that your baby is having a nice peaceful snooze and is feeling far too cosy to move yet. Babies…
Now that you’re 17 weeks pregnant, it might be a good time to start pelvic floor exercises, if you haven’t already. The pelvic floor muscles hold your bladder, lower bowel and womb in place. These muscles can weaken during or after pregnancy and can lead…
The fifth week of pregnancy isn’t a great deal different from the fourth week, so rest assured you’ll still have crazy mood swings, still need to pee every 5 seconds and still the world will have no idea you are carrying a little person inside…
Week 4 is when your period should be due. Yours will be strangely absent. This may give you cause to jump about the house madly and fly off the chandeliers, or you may want to sit down with a nice cup of chamomile tea and…
You are now officially pregnant and a tiny, tiny egg somewhere inside you is getting ready to become a baby. It will take your egg around four days to traverse the length of your fallopian tube before landing in your uterus. Once there, it looks…
The second week is when your body has an egg all lined up for dispatch. It is getting ready to make its journey down one of your fallopian tubes, in the hopes of being fertilised. Fertilisation is the fun bit, enjoy it while you can.…
Well, not at lot really. In fact technically, you’re not even pregnant yet. You’ve just had your last period for at least the next 9 months and that alone is something to celebrate. Say goodbye to cramps, sugar cravings and gigantic period panties. Say hello…
While you’re in the midst of checking off those last-minute nursery items, don’t forget one task that could be crucial to your baby’s health: your screening for group B strep. Group B strep lives quietly in the bodies of almost a quarter of pregnant women,…
Experiencing thrush at any time can be an uncomfortable experience. Pregnancy can intensify these feelings for many women. Unfortunately, women who are pregnant are ten times more likely to experience thrush. One out of three women have the Candida albicans fungus present in their vagina.…
If you’ve never suffered from headaches before, you may be surprised to notice an aching head now and again during your pregnancy. Try these 5 natural, safe remedies to help ease or prevent your pregnancy headaches. 1. Heat or Cold for Pregnancy Headaches This natural…