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Travelling during pregnancy

You’ve probably heard all sorts of different opinions about travelling while you are pregnant. What are the facts about air and road travel?

Take the ache out of backache

Approximately half of pregnant women complain of back pain during pregnancy. In many cases, pain continues for a few months after birth. How can you relieve back pain?

Negotiating maternity leave

How do you negotiate maternity leave with your employer? Here are a few tips.

Hazardous work environment?

A quiz to help you find out whether your work environment poses a risk to your baby.

Is it safe to have sex?

Being pregnant does not have to mean that you have to be celibate. When is it not safe? And is sex the same when you are pregnant?

Intimacy during pregnancy

Great sex during pregnancy is pleasurable and good for you. Here are some tips, positions and techniques.

Sex with a tummy

It’s your first pregnancy, and you want to know if it's safe to continue having sex. Here are a list of questions and answers that simplify the intimacy issue.

Do you have maternal instinct?

Maternal instinct - an automatic response that leads to the nurture and protection of the young - seems to come effortlessly to animals, but is it the same for humans?

9 ways to induce birth

Waiting for your baby can be frustrating, and for some couples the last two weeks are the longest. This couple decided to have some fun while they were waiting.

Common complaints in pregnancy

We list the most common complaints and explain why they happen.

Relieving heartburn

What can you do to relieve heartburn? We have some tips.

Beating insomnia

Sleeping becomes difficult, especially in the last trimester. Here are a few tips to get a good night's rest.

Pregnancy, motherhood and work

You're having a baby - let's talk about the impact that pregnancy and parenthood will have on your career.

Pregnancy and drinking

There's considerable confusion about the risks (or not) of drinking alcohol during pregnancy. What's the limit, really?

Doctors, diet and morning sickness

Pregnant? Wondering about when you should see your doctor, what you should eat and what to do about morning sickness? A few tips from Medi-Clinic.

Drug may help morning sickness

A large study shows that pregnant women who suffer morning sickness are not risking harm to their babies if they take a certain anti-nausea drug

My pregnant bladder

When the writer fell pregnant, her urologist warned her that she'd be spending the entire nine months on the loo' - this is a pregnancy side-effect no-one tells you about.

7 embarrassing pregnancy symptoms

Most woman expect pregnancy to be a time of bliss as pregnancy progresses they soon realise that growing a tiny human is not for sissies.

Myths about pregnancy bumps

In the not-too-distant past there was no sure way to establish the gender of your unborn child, and every family had it's own trick to tell whether it was a girl or a boy.