Gherkins and ice cream, cheese and chocolate, we’ve all heard about the bizarre cravings that some women get when they’re pregnant, but Alison Brierley, and artist and taxidermist from Yorkshire, might just have everyone beat in the weirdness stakes she’s …more »
Added to the list of things that women have to go through that men will never fully understand, is breast-feeding. If a new mother is out and about with her baby and wants to breast-feed, she has to …more »
Most of us know little about our birthweight beyond how much grief we cause our poor mothers when they were trying to get us out, but David Barker, a Physician and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton, …more »
I’ve often heard it said that the last few months of pregnancy are the hardest. Hormones all akimbo, body the size of an ocean liner, and the impending dread of the 72 hour labour your mother claims you made her …more »
According to researchers, 15% of pregnant women arriving at hospitals in the UK are obese. As well as the health risks associated with obesity during pregnancy (such as stillbirth and neural tube defects, such as spina bifida), being born to …more »
