Prepare To Be Shocked, Reduced To Tears Yet Amazed & Inspired
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about the tests that are available to a pregnant mother to look at the health of the fetus. I know there are misunderstandings because I hear them everyday from patients. This is a list of the most common ones. The Maternal Serum Screen proves that my baby has normal [...]
This post is a guest post I was just reading an article that stood out it was about Foetus parties and the commercialisation of them. Basically people are now more likely to have 3d and 4d scans of their baby at 12 -20 weeks and have friends and family round to look at the [...]
Being an expectant mother is one of life’s most amazing things. It could even be THE most amazing… Especially if it is your first pregnancy, your head is likely to be full of zig-zagging thoughts and questions: “Do I know enough to give my child the best possible start in life?” “Will the child be healthy?” [...]
I lay in bed and can’t move. I won’t move because I can feel and see my unborn baby kicking and it feels good. Life seems perfect; it is perfect! I check my phone and notice I have received two new messages. I put my phone back down thinking to myself, “it’s probably only facebook.” I go [...]
Just to warn you… reading this you’ll either feel slightly peckish or damn right nauseous. At our 12 week scan, my partner and I chuckled over the idea of ‘eastern countries’ eating the placenta. Never did I actually believe we would. It was all calm and relaxed, the operating lamp towered above me, the blue [...]
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