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Sweeteners and fizzy drinks
By ThinkBaby on 25/07/2007 01:40:40
Fizzy drinks can be great for morning sickness and as an alternative to your pre-pregnancy glass of wine, but go easy!
of the easy traps to fall into is substituting espressos and wine with soft drinks. True, fizzy drinks can help stave off feelings of pregnancy queasiness, and there is a limit to the amount of water or fruit juice you'll fancy drinking when your friends
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What should my toddler drink?
By Laura Lee Davies on 24/08/2009 01:26:43
We all know about breastfeeding babies, but what, how much and when should a toddler drink?
We spend so much of our time worrying about measurements and feedings for babies, it's easy to forget once a child can move around and begin to decide what he wants for himself, that we should be still looking at what he's drinking.MilkUnless your
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Artificial sweeteners in diet drinks linked to premature babies
By Kimberley Smith on 13/07/2010 16:20:55
Mums-to-be who drink a can of diet fizzy a day are at a higher risk of giving birth prematurely
Mums who drink diet fizzy drinks during pregnancy may be putting their babies at risk of premature birth, says a study funded by EU.Of the 60,000 women involved in the research, those who drank an average of one can of diet pop a day during
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Christmas drinks put to the test - non-alcoholic tipples
By Kyrsty Hazell on 23/11/2010 16:06:19
Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you miss out on the festive cheer, especially with the range of non-alcoholic drinks around. We put them to the test...
Non-alcoholic Christmas drinks for mums-to-beIf you're pregnant this Christmas, it might feel like you're missing out a bit on some of the festive foods and alcoholic offerings. However, you can treat yourself to a variety of fab non
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Pregnancy Drinking Water: Bottle or Tap?
By Laura Lee Davies on 18/04/2009 01:57:28
Is it safer to drink regular water or bottled water when you are expecting?
It is important to keep up your fluids in pregnancy, but should you be drinking tap water and avoiding mineral water? Tap, mineral, purified - what's best?In the UK, most tap water is safe to drink. UK standards for purifying general water supplies
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5 excuses for not drinking at summer parties
By Kimberley Smith on 07/05/2011 11:11:26
Avoid those awkward questions with these fail safe excuses for staying off the alcohol
If it’s early days and you’re not ready to announce your pregnancy just yet, we’ve come up with some plausible excuses for why you’re not drinking, to get you out of an awkward conversation!1. Driving. The perfect excuse (unless you live down
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Drinks for your baby at 10-12 months
By Clare Firth on 29/11/2010 05:08:43
Your baby still needs around a pint of milk a day. We explain how to keep this in her diet and how much water she should be drinking
from milk as her main source of nutrition. She still needs around a pint of milk a day, but if you’re struggling to get her to drink this amount, you can make it up with other calcium-rich foods like yoghurt and cheese. You can still give your baby her
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Drinking small amounts of alcohol in pregnancy not harmful to baby
By Kimberley Smith on 10/06/2010 13:18:42
Study shoes that mums who are light to moderate drinkers even have children with a lower risk of mild psychological problems
drinkers tend to be mentally healthier than both abstainers and addicts and low doses of alcohol may have helped calm mums-to-be leading them to produce calmer children.The news will reassure women who continued to drink before they realised they were
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New research urges pregnant women not to drink alcohol
By Kimberley Smith on 11/04/2011 15:38:52
Just a small amount of alcohol in pregnancy found to increase chances of premature birth
A couple of glasses of wine a week during pregnancy could be enough to put your unborn baby at risk of foetal alcohol syndrome, according to new research from Dublin.The new study contradicts recent research that suggested the odd alcoholic drink
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Regular pregnancy drinking could harm sons’ sperm count
By Kimberley Smith on 29/06/2010 16:30:18
Lower fertility found in men whose mums drank higher amounts of alcohol in pregnancy
Men born to mums who regularly drank more than 4.5 alcoholic drinks a week in pregnancy have been found to have lower sperm counts than those whose mums abstained.A study in Denmark analysed the fertility of 347 men aged 18-24 against answers given
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