Pregnancy Worries

Warning Signs In Pregnancy

After my last post about bleeding in pregnancy I decided to highlight some other issues that may occur in pregnancy, and would need to be checked out by your Doctor/Midwife. Vaginal Bleeding or spotting. While spotting is a fairly common experience during the early stages of pregnancy, it can defiantly leave you feeling a little [...]

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Bleeding In Pregnancy

Bleeding in early pregnancy is extremely worrying,  it’s only natural that you’re concerned about your baby. Bleeding in the early days is common and about a quarter of mums-to-be experience some bleeding in the first three months of pregnancy. There are number of things that could be causing your bleeding. Breakthrough Bleeding. This happens when pregnancy [...]

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I’m Not Ready!!

Do you ever feel like every other mum to be has themselves so together and prepared. Every other mommy on the face of the earth has their nurserys painted, cots bought and built, are informed about what kind of nappies are best, know all about breast feeding, has been to birthing classes , is preparing [...]

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Second Pregnancy Worries

Aside from all the usual pregnancy worries, I had additional worries in my second pregnancy. Towards the end of my third trimester, the realisation that this new child would soon be in our lives, started to scare the hell of me. I worried that my daughter wouldn’t like her little brother. I had a greater [...]

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Antenatal Notes (Part 2)

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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