Having a baby leads to all kinds of body changes, and not all of them leave you feeling too crash hot about yourself. Things are soft that weren’t soft before, your core strength has packed up and left and sometimes you might even look in the mirror and not recognise the person looking back. It’s…
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…
You’ve never felt hungry like ‘pregnant woman hungry’. It’s different. As soon as you get an idea of what you want to eat, you have to have it, right then and there. Raging hormones, food aversions and horrible nausea mean that when you do find something you want to eat, it’s a good idea to…
So, first of all, I absolutely MUST preface this article by saying MY Mother-in-Law is amazing. Seriously. She is one of the most kind and loving women ever and is so far in the opposite camp of being too scared to step on toes that she doesn’t speak up for what she wants. However, I…
As many of you are aware, I suffered from severe Hyperemesis Gravidarum during my pregnancies. I have been trying for some time to put into words how to describe this condition. Sharing Hyperemesis Gravidarum Stories can be a great way for women to feel less alone and feel more understood. I haven’t been able to convey…
Hyperemesis Gravidarum is a debilitating condition that affects a small number of pregnancies. Words cannot express the impact it has on the lives of those who suffer from it, however, Tiffany – a friend and Hyperemesis survivor – has done an amazing job at sharing her experience with readers. My husband Steve and I were talking a…
There are so many articles and well meaning advice 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 it. It’s…
Pregnancy, when you’re growing life inside of you and it’s this beautiful, magic time of your life. Or it’s not, and the ‘pregnancy glow’ you have is actually just sweat and you now come with your own sound effects when you move (grunt, grunt, moan). Sometimes it’s both of these things, sometimes it’s both within…
Like most mums, I went a little crazy when I had my first baby. I bought just about everything anyone proclaimed I ‘needed’ or that promised to make life easier. For the record, that was a lot of ‘things’. Turns out, I barely used any of them (partially due to my son being in NICU…
If there is one thing we are told time and time again during our pregnancies it is all the foods and drinks we should be avoiding. How many times do we hear ‘oh you’re not allowed to eat that now’… it becomes draining and such a negative experience. So we are going to focus on…