Pregnancy Health: Advice, Information & Resources

Dad-to-be takes credit card from pregnant wife so she can't order 'forbidden' food items

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Cropped shot of a pregnant woman touching her belly

Our baby died after I carried him for 23 weeks. A simple test could have saved his life

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Why all pregnant women need to know about the spike in syphilis

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What is gestational diabetes?

Around 5-10 per cent of women are affected by gestational diabetes.

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Pregnancy and your blood type

The blood type and Rh factor of a pregnant woman and the father of her baby has all kinds of implications for their unborn child.

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Thrush during pregnancy: the facts

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As much as 50 per cent of women experience pelvic girdle pain.

How to ease pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy

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Always see a doctor if you're concerned about any aspects of your health or wellbeing while pregnant.

Obstetric cholestasis: the facts

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Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP): the facts

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Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby, new study

Many women don't know using cannabis during pregnancy poses risks to the baby.

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How I survived severe morning sickness - twice

Nothing could transform my debilitating nausea and vomiting into something remotely bearable.

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Psychiatric meds during pregnancy: how a mum-to-be navigated a minefield

No one knew for sure how her drugs combined with pregnancy, so like millions of other women, she had to wing it.

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Please don't ask me when I'm due - I have 'diastasis recti'

When Jessica's 'mummy tummy' didn't go away months after giving birth, she realised that something was wrong.

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Ashley Sicher suffered ICP during her first pregnancy.

'The baby is going to die': pregnant woman suffers from rare 'itching' disease

In addition to unbearable itching, ICP can cause a toxic environment in the womb that can be dangerous to the growing baby.

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Single Aussie mum defies breast cancer to have baby girl at 42

"I was devastated because I thought I would never have a child."

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'It was incredibly challenging': the lengths one mum went to avoid passing on a BRCA1 mutation to her children

When Alex Isaac discovered she was a BRCA1 carrier she was certain about one thing - she would do whatever she could to avoid passing the gene mutation on to her own children.

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Preggo Lego: The Instagram account you need to be following

This #preggolgo series is brilliant!

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Mum gives birth after having heart valve replaced while pregnant

It is the first time the heart procedure has been undergone by a pregnant woman.

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'I felt so isolated': Ashley Graham cries while talking about pregnancy body image

"I thought I was gonna feel good and I didn't. I just felt terrible...."

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Eugenie Pepper with children Tommy and Chloe.

'It was very upsetting': the pain of experiencing vanishing twin syndrome

"He looked at me as if I was making it up."

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