While you’re entitled to plenty of pampering and perks, there’s also those annoying pregnancy symptoms that you must deal with. Dizziness and vertigo, where you feel like the room is spinning even when everything’s stationary, are amongst the most troublesome symptoms. Although, it usually passes within seconds, there are times when it can last much longer.
The three most common pregnancy pains and how to help them
Throughout your pregnancy, there will be dozens of aches and pains that become part of your everyday life. In today’s article, I’ll go over the three most common pregnancy pains that you’re likely to experience, and why you don’t have to live peacefully with them. Backache Your uterus can expand up to 1,000 times during […]
Free compression hosiery during pregnancy
Pregnancy is a wonderful thing BUT it does bring with it some difficulties. There are of course those that sail through their pregnancies with no nasty side effects and no doubt snap back into their pre-pregnancy skinny jeans a few hours after giving birth to their babies that probably only require three pushes. It happens. […]
Win tickets to the Private Pregnancy UK Show
Would you like to attend the Private Pregnancy UK Show: Saturday 21st May – Sunday 22nd May 2016 – Royal Institution, London? As the first exhibition of its kind, The Private Pregnancy Show will bring together elite obstetricians, gynaecologists, fertility consultants and midwives from the UK’s leading private hospitals and clinics, for one weekend only. It […]
Language barriers and midwifery
Many of us will have travelled to a country where we didn’t speak the language. How was it for you? How did you feel? I speak reasonable french, basic Spanish and basic Japanese but when I went to Germany I hated it. I hated it because I couldn’t understand anyone and I couldn’t ask anything. […]