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You’re Pregnant!

Thea — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:00:33 +0000

Congratulations! - especially if this is your first baby.Pregnancy should be a wonderful time, but it can be worrying too: in a few short months you will be responsible for a little baby who will be totally relying on you (and your partner). So you have a relatively short period of time to learn how to cope.

Pregnancy Month By Month

There’s plenty of help available to you: your own family, friends, your doctor/nurse/midwife. There’s the internet too and we hope you will find this site useful.On a more light-hearted note:

if you don’t yet know whether baby will be a boy or girl, try the Chinese Pregnancy Chart! It is supposed to predict the sex of your baby if you know the month baby was conceived. A joke? Well, the ancient chart exists in a museum in China.

Here you will find a list of articles about being pregnant.

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At Last, The Birth..

Thea — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:54:55 +0000

One important decision you need to make during pregnancy is where you will give birth. Here are some of the things to consider before reaching your decision.

You can use your pregnancy as time to research your options for the birth. Talk to other women to find out about their experiences, discuss the issues with your midwife and read about them, too. (more…)

Your New Baby..

Thea — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:52:17 +0000

What to expect

This section covers things you need to know about bringing up children - from bathing them as babies to helping them find a foot on the career ladder - and generally keeping them out of harm’s way.Warm, loving communication between you and your child enables them to build a sense of identity.Books and magazines about raising children - especially about babies, toddlers and teens - have never been more popular. Yet there’s a whole hidden area of childhood in-between that almost no one seems to write about.Between the ages of about five and nine, friendships usually form quite casually and may change very rapidly. Your child may be great friends with someone one day, then best pals with somebody else the next.Noise, activity and curiosity are features of your child between ages four to seven. Watch their vivid imagination go into overdrive..By the time they reach school age, children develop an established sense of self-esteem. (more…)

Conceiving A Baby..

Thea — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:31:38 +0000

It can take time before it happens and the wait can be worrying - and the worrying itself can even prolong the waiting!

So calm down, do some research into how to improve your chances of becoming pregnant and get all the advice that’s out there. Hopefully some of the articles below will add to your knowledge and some will make you smile. If you have been trying unsuccessfully for over one year to conceive then talk to your doctor. Start keeping charts and take your temperature each morning to see when is the best time to try for your baby.

Conceiving a baby - tips

The odds of a young fertile couple conceiving by having sexual intercourse around the time of ovulation (the release of the egg from the ovary) are approximately one in five every month. Around nine out of 10 couples achieve a pregnancy after one year of unprotected sex. There are various strategies that can improve your odds of conceiving. Identifying the woman’s fertile phase is the most important. (more…)

Questions & Answers index

Thea — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:11:35 +0000

This page gives you access to frequently asked questions and advice covering the many aspects of parenting, from preconception, toddlers and teenagers to childcare, finance and support.

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Eating fads
Eating habits: teen
Eating lumpy food: babies
Eating worries: toddler
Education support: primary
Exercise for disabled pre-teen
Explaining sex to a toddler

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Fathers and overprotective mothers
Feet growth in teenagers
Fluid intake in toddlers
Flying in late pregnancy
Flying during pregnancy
Food for a baby
Food for a fussy toddler

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Go-karting during pregnancy
Grazing eating habit

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Headbanging toddler
Hitting: toddler
Homework concentration: teens
Homework trouble: pre-teen
Homosexuality

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Imaginary friends
Incontinence during pregnancy
Iron supplements for vegetarian baby

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Labour contractions
Lack of concentration
Late for school: teen
Leg pains during pregnancy
Losing weight baby
Low self-esteem: brothers
Lumpy food: baby

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Male fertility
Miscarriage discharge while pregnant
Miscarriage symptoms
Moody teenager
More children
Morning sickness
Moving house: effects on children
Multivitamins and pregnancy

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Night feeding
Night waking: toddler

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Paternity leave
Pocket money
Positive parenting
Postnatal depression
Pregnancy scans
Pregnant: telling people
Pregnancy test
Pregnant x-ray
Puberty signs at seven years

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Quality time with children
Quickening

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Racial bullying
Registering for pregnancy tests
Religion and children

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Salt and babies
Scared of monsters
School: late teen
Sex and drugs: teenagers
Sex: explaining to a toddler
Sick child: work
Sitting upright: baby
Sleeping in parents’ bed
Smacking children
Smoking pre-teen
Speech development: toddler
Stealing pre-teen
Stimulating your toddler
Swearing children

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Talking about death
Tantrums: toddler
Teaching children religion
Test for pregnancy
Thumb-sucking
Time to care for sick child
Toddler: discipline
Toilet training
Toilet training poo
Toilet training: when to start
TV in child’s room

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Vegetarian baby

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Walking to school alone
Weaning, salt and babies
Weight loss baby
Why phase
Work: time to care for sick child

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X-rays and pregnancy