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8 Helpful C-section Recovery Tips

March 14th, 2024

Make sure you heal fast, reduce pain and enjoy your postpartum time with your new baby. Follow these c-section recovery tips! Reviewed by Dr June...

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9 First Baby Toys (0-6 Months) That are Totally Play-Worthy

March 11th, 2024

Looking for some special first toys that baby is going to LOVE to play with? These 9 baby toy recommendations are totally playworthy and guaranteed to get those baby giggles flowing...

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11 Pregnancy Symptoms For a Baby Boy

March 9th, 2024

Cold feet, lack of morning sickness, and dry skin in pregnancy—it must be a boy, right? Here are all the tell-tale symptoms that you are carrying a boy.

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6 Ways to Have a Healthy Baby (During Pregnancy)

March 2nd, 2024

How can you make sure you're baby is growing healthily during pregnancy? Some things are out of our hands but there are things you can do to make sure your baby starts life with optimum health. Cross these off your list of must-do's...

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Should I Buy a Home Fetal Doppler? Are They Safe?

February 10th, 2024

Fetal dopplers for home use are now widely available and many parents-to-be understandably like the idea of being able to check on baby whenever they want to. But how safe are they? Let's look at some of the evidence...

What Does My Cervix Look and Feel Like During Pregnancy?

So you’ve started reading about what happens to your body when you’re pregnant. Perhaps you’re already pregnant, and you’ve been to an appointment or two

Blighted Ovum – It’s a Miscarriage NOT a Phantom Pregnancy

What is a Blighted Ovum? Even though a blighted ovum is a very common form of miscarriage affecting up to 20% of all known pregnancies,

11 Gentle Ways to Start Labor Naturally

Picture the scene – you’re somewhere between 38 – 42 weeks pregnant and nothing seems to be happening. Not even getting any pre-labor symptoms. You’re

19 Things to Consider When Writing Your Birth Plan

Whether it’s your first, second, third, or eighth pregnancy, you will probably have an idea of how you would like your labor and delivery to

What Pregnancy Will Teach You About Yourself – 14 Moms Share Their Powerful Life Lessons

At its most basic level pregnancy is a physical process that we hope will bring us a healthy baby but pregnancy often gives us many

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What is a Postpartum Doula and Why Should You Hire One?

What is a postpartum doula, you ask? I’m glad you asked! If you want an easier postpartum recovery, time to rest and bond with your

10 Things Women Hate About Being Pregnant

Pregnancy is a wonderful and magical time. It’s also a time of feeling constantly irritated, annoyed and bloated. Life has ups and downs and so

6 Ways to Have a Healthy Baby (During Pregnancy)

You’re pregnant — or you want to be. So even if you’re usually the most laid back human on the planet, you might be starting

5 Ways to Cope with OCD in Pregnancy

Written by Psychologist Nikolina Miljus. One in 100 pregnant women will experience obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms for the first time in pregnancy or OCD pregnancy. For women