I have just started yoga classes for pregnancy and childbirth on the advice of my midwife. They are meant to leave you feeling calm and relaxed after two hours of beneficial stretching (two hours!!!). Somehow the first class didn’t live up to my expectations. Far too much navel g...

My feet seem have to have swelled an awful lot and look really misshapen. But – whoa! – my ankles take the biscuit. They are starting to resemble a pair of thunder thighs and I feel most ungainly. My midwife says I’ve got oedema – puffiness in my ankles and my hands (I can no lon...

I can’t believe that at 16 weeks I am still feeling seasick. Everyone tells you this is meant to pass at three months. “You’re obviously having a girl,” say other women I bump into. “They make you far more sick.” I don’t want to dwell on the sex of my child too much, especially a...

I am half way through my pregnancy at 20 weeks but I am more preoccupied about having just failed my driving test at the moment. If I don’t pass before the baby is born, I fear I will never get round to it. I have decided to book one last test before I am too fat to squeeze behin...

It’s a miracle. Sing hosanna! I have finally stopped feeling sick after six… count ’em… six whole months. The feeling of being permanently moored to the deck of a dinghy has finally vanished. I am ecstatic. I am beginning to feel ‘normal’ again – whatever normal is when your fron...

What’s going on? What on earth is this 10-month thing? I thought humans had a nine-month pregnancy. It seems to have been going on forever. I feel in two minds about everything: I am desperate to stop feeling elephantine and to get this baby out and yet I also don’t want her to a...

every five minutes. Should I phone the midwife? I decided I’d phone her at 9am and let her have some sleep – after all it was the early stages. But I couldn’t sleep and so ran several baths to try to ease the pain that way. The water helped but my

in the mid-thirties. It's also the case that as you get older the rate of miscarriage rises dramatically. The general rate of miscarriage is believed to be about one-in-five (though it's very difficult to say how many early miscarriages occur that are never

face a lower life expectancy, with thirty-one years the current average for CF sufferers according to the UK's Cystic Fibrisis Trust. However, as with many other diseases, early diagnosis can have a very significant impact on the health outlook

pregnancy, it makes it hard to sense what your body is telling you. However, even women who have always had regular periods can be late. But why? Check out our five main reasons: 1. Sometimes it just happensInterestingly, and somewhat confusingly, the first