including high blood pressure, premature birth and gestational diabetes. Morbidly obese and obese women are also more likely to need a caesarean.“Hospitals, midwives and obstetricians need to seriously consider the long-term impact of the rise in morbidly

Maternity services for obese mums-to-be have been branded ‘not good enough’ by the Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries.Its report warned that units do not have enough extra-wide operating tables and beds and that obese pregnant women

Women are more likely to have trouble remembering where they left things such as their keys when they’re pregnant. The memory effects are said to last for 3 months after birth.Researchers believe that hormones may be to blame – due to the swings

All pregnant women could have blood tests to check their vitamin D levels, under new proposals put forward to prevent resurgence in rickets. Experts have also suggested mums-to-be receive free vitamin D supplements on the NHS.Rickets is a condition

and reduce the pressure on over-stretched maternity wards.The intention would to enable pregnant women to have free hypnobirth training on the NHS. However, critics are concerned that leaving mums to cope with labour and birth on their own may put them

pregnant might affect their decision, 46 per cent were influenced by reading about the experiences of high profile women who have found it hard to get pregnant. And 38 per cent had actually reconsidered their own 'window of opportunity' to successfully

the classes] because it seemed a nice thing to do. She would wake up and be wriggly when I was singing or humming low bass notes – the other mums could see my tummy moving,” said LizThe workshops are aimed at local women, and it is hoped that other London

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 occasionally in pregnancy is harm...

Since Kelly Brook tragically became the third celebrity to lose her baby late in pregnancy, scare stories have been popping up in the newspapers suggesting late miscarriage and stillbirth rates are rising. But there is no evidence to support this.Miscarriage Association director ...

Women in the UK can spend numerous amounts of years planning a baby, says a new survey by Centrum Pregnancy Care.Almost half of all women will spend a year or more planning before trying to conceive and one in twelve will spend 5 or more years