It’s all glamour in the pregnancy department this week. Think back pain, varicose veins and weird and wonderful dreams. If that wasn’t enough, the second trimester is when you ‘blossom’, so make sure your maternity clothes are prepared to take the strain. If you’ve plonked…
The good news is that now your body is becoming accustomed to being pregnant, your nausea should have disappeared. The bad news is it may well be replaced by heartburn and indigestion. These can be managed by eating frequent, smaller meals and drinking a glass…
Congratulations, you’re now officially halfway. If you’re feeling a bit anxious about your upcoming scan, remember that sex is a great stress reliever. It is perfectly safe during pregnancy unless you’ve been advised otherwise by your midwife or physician. If sex is the last thing…
Give yourself a pat on the back because you are now in the second trimester of pregnancy. You may have noticed that your waist has gone on holiday and that your breasts are expanding at an alarming rate. Why not go and treat yourself with…
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.…