At about 16 weeks gestation, your body starts making colostrum - learn more about expressing this colostrum antenatally (ie before birth)

In my opinion the placenta is an amazing organ - anyone who has ever taken a breath has done so because of a placenta. Yet, there are some

Another popular Facebook post - When this show first started airing in the UK I was working in London in as a NICU nurse. I loved...

Please can we stop putting time limits on mothers and babies? When it comes to pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding our society is obsessed w

I have heard recently that rather than maternity services being described as 'woman-centred' they should be 'family-centred'. I tried...

Hi Justine, I didn't get the birth I was hoping for, but the hypnobirthing gave me the strength to get through a long first stage – I...

The concept of a due date being 40 weeks from the first day of your menstrual period was 'invented' in the 1700's. Before that

Having doctors on standby is a good thing, but routine intervention probably isn't. Stats show that perinatal deaths are not decreasing

A former HypnoBirthing mother shares her positive birth story....the midwife thought she was too calm to be in labour!

For most people, falling pregnant is a very exciting time. You wonder about this new little baby, will it be a boy or a girl, what will...