OK, so you know it’s important to give up smoking now you’re pregnant or trying for a baby. But as many mums will testify, it’s not always as easy as simply throwing away your last packet and forgetting about it. As an ex-smoker myself I can certainly testify to that. If you’re a pregnant smoker, [...]
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Are you ready for part 2? Well here goes…. Relation of PP to brim: - Your midwife will measure how much of your baby’s head/bottom can be felt above the brim of your pelvis as fifths: 5/5 means that the head is not engaged; 0/5 means that the head is fully engaged. Eng/E: Engaged - Head engaged. [...]
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Antenatal notes can look like a foreign language and if you’re anything like me you’ll come home from your appointments and read them whilst self diagnosing yourself with allsorts!! So i’ve done a little research to find out what it all means. NAD/nil or a tick: No abnormality detected in urine sample. PGO: Protein, glucose, [...]
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Back in the 70s/80s, pregnant women used to wear dungarees. Or tent-like smock dresses in pastel colours, often with twee bow detail at the neckline and Peter Pan collars. But in 1991, Demi Moore (followed by a growing number of celebs) went and changed everything by posing naked for the cover of Vanity Fair when [...]
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When I was pregnant I found that there was a huge gap in the market. Pregnancy wear! Although it is getting more widely available, at the time I was pregnant I found that everything out there is unflattering, unimaginative and generic!? This was not helped by the fact that I am vertically challenged (we are [...]
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