This is the moment you have been looking forward to for the last nine months: meeting and getting to know your baby! What can…
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Hospital and Birth
You will be facing many questions from the beginning of your pregnancy until you are ready to go back to work after your maternity leave. This advice section provides answers and useful tips around pregnancy, hospital and birth, breastfeeding, pumping and going back to work.
Physiological Breast Engorgement
Between about day two and day five after birth, you might experience breast engorgement with increased blood circulation in the breasts and the secretion…
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Packing for Hospital Birth
Here are your must-haves and some nice-to-haves to pack for the hospital or birth centre. This list is a good starting point, but every…
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Epidural: The Pros and Cons
Some mums-to-be pledge to have an epidural upon arrival at the hospital, while others hope to experience labour and birth without using this method…
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Birthplace: Hospital, Birth Centre or Home?
Nowadays, most women give birth in a hospital. However, increasing numbers are choosing to give birth at home or at a birth centre instead….
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The Stages of Labour
Every woman experiences labour differently. Nobody can predict what your labour will be like or how long it will last. But there are plenty…
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Real Signs of Impending Birth
In films, the pregnant woman’s waters break in the middle of the night, she runs around the house in a panic, her husband forgets…
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