Category: Bump and Birth
Grieving Mum Creates Purple Butterfly Stickers to Help Other NICU Parents
An innocent comment from one mum to another has prompted Millie Smith from the UK to create purple stickers to mark the cots and...
Loaded opinions on pregnancy
Having had five children, four under five, and then a bonus baby three years later, I understand all too well the controversial opinions a...
Mum Finds Photo Of Her Pregnant Belly On a Pregnancy Porn Site
When Meg Ireland uploaded a photo of her heavily pregnant belly onto her social media page she never for a second thought it would end up...
Study Reveals Pregnant Teens are Smoking to Stunt Baby Growth
Startling finds have been discovered during a 10-year Australian study on the habit of smoking amongst pregnant teens. The research has...
6 Ways to Bond With Your Baby During Pregnancy
Can you connect with your unborn baby? Michelle O’Neill, R.N., Ph.D., author of Meditations for Pregnancy: 36 Weekly Practices for...
Life with a newborn – after birth pain
Before we have children we think the pain ends in the delivery room. How very mistaken we are! I was speaking to a girlfriend this morning...
Chloasma – the mask of pregnancy
The other day as I was getting my children ready for school, my five year old son looked at me with distaste and asked me if I could put...
Mum Wakes up From C-Section to Find her Legs Have Been Amputated
Child birth doesn’t always give the guarantees we expect when we’re expecting. One mum in the UK has been left wheelchair bound after a...
Life with a newborn – Day 4
The miracle of childbirth is the most overwhelming life experience I’ve ever had the honour of being a part of. The joy of meeting...
Light For Riley Questions Antenatal Health Providers in not Being Proactive on Promoting Whooping Cough Booster Shots to Pregnant Women
When Greg and Catherine Hughes lost their 1-month-old baby son Riley to Whooping Cough, they made it their mission to educate pregnant...
