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

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

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

to silvery lines all over your tummy (not good with a bikini). The good news is that mum says she didn’t get a single one. The bad news is that I’d just forked out for the world’s most expensive pregnancy massage oil.I am feeling hyper sensitive at the moment

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