After The Birth...
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Baby Naming Ceremonies
If you’d like to have your baby officially named, but don’t want to have a formal christening or baptism, then there are plenty of alternative options available....
Cot Death (SIDS)
Cot death also known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS claims the lives of approximately 500 babies per year in the UK. Little is known about the causes of cot...
Dealing with Miscarriage and Still Birth
Miscarriage and stillbirth are both types of pregnancy loss that occur before birth. A miscarriage is defined as occurring before the 24 week mark...
Donating Your Breast Milk
If you’re mum to a six month old or less baby, who hasn’t yet started weaning, then you could become a breast milk donor. Breast milk is often in demand, to help...
Expressing Your Baby Milk
When you’ve had a baby, there are all sorts of new skills to master and learning to express your own milk may be one of them. Whether you’re expressing milk...
Foods to Eat After The Birth
Giving birth is a major physical achievement for any woman so in the weeks and months after this event her body must rest and allow itself to recover. While some of the...
How Might I Feel After a Caesarean Section?
For the majority of women, having a baby via a caesarean section comes as unexpected development during labour, due to problems with the baby or...
How Might I Feel After a Natural Delivery?
Having a baby is a major life experience and the birth itself can be a particularly exhausting experience. There’s often lots of information...
Introducing Baby to Siblings
It’s all change when you have a new addition to the family, especially for any other siblings and it can take them a while to adjust to their little brother or sister....
Keeping Fit After The Birth
It may seem that the weeks and months after giving birth are the most tiring of you life and it may be all you can do to find a clean shirt much less get out for a jog,...
Post Birth Checks and Visits
Care, support and help from health professionals doesn’t stop abruptly after you give birth. In fact, there are more post birth checks and visits to ensure that both...
Post Pregnancy Sex
When you’ve recently given birth, it’s unlikely to be a top priority, but there often are a lot of questions and issues surrounding post pregnancy sex. We reveal the...
Post-Birth Contraception Options
When you’ve recently had a baby and are busy caring for your newborn and getting over the effects of the birth, it’s not unusual for the idea of having sex to be...
Postnatal Depression
Postnatal depression is a type of depression that occurs after a woman has given birth. About 10 to 15% of women in the UK are affected to varying degrees of severity,...
Returning to Work After Giving Birth
Giving birth is so physically exhausting that it might be a while before you even feel ready to leave your bed never mind return to work. In fact, once they have had...
What If Your Baby Has to Stay in Hospital?
If your baby needs to spend time staying in hospital it can be a really worrying time for parents. Your usual routines and schedules will be torn...
Why Might I Need to Stay in Hospital After Giving Birth?
Whether you’ve given birth in a hospital or birthing centre, or had a home birth, there are times when you may need a short hospital stay after...
