"A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months,
in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die." - Mary Mason
Being pregnant can be the most exciting, wonderful time, the scariest, most worrying time, or the time when you just feel sick and fat. Whichever it is for you, whether it is your 1st time or this is your 4th child, welcome to online mum.
There is no reason why you shouldn’t still have your holiday just because you are pregnant. However you do need to check out some extra things, and take more precautions. In ALL cases, take advice from your doctor or midwife. It is ALWAYS better to be safe than sorry.
What do contractions feel like? I had no idea. I asked a friend of mine who had 2 children. She said it started off feeling like period pain. That seemed easy!
I woke up at 6 in the morning 9 days after baby was due, with an achy period pain. I can’t really describe where the pain was, it was kind of between the top of my legs and bottom of my belly. After a minute or so it went. Half an hour later it returned. The same pattern carried on, I just thought I was achy. My partner said “You are in labour” I was sure I wasn’t. But he was right. The pain got slowly worse, and felt like my insides were tightening and loosening. You could tell when it was going to happen. It built up. Read more »
I love this video of a pregnancy from 4 weeks to 32 weeks. It shows how a woman’s body changes shape week by week.
A new study reveals that women who take Vitamin D when pregnant can cut the risk of premature birth.
The dramatic findings suggest that “mothers who were given ten times the usual dose of Vitamin D during pregnancy had their risk of premature birth reduced by half and had fewer small babies… No test showed any adverse effect of the large dose of vitamin D.” *
This is great news. If a simple vitamin can help boost the health of babies and prevent premature birth, surely every woman should be encouraged to take it. Read more »
Yet again eating cheese when you are pregnant has hit the headlines.
But can you eat cheese when you are pregnant? Read more »
