Week 7: Hello little baby, So I believe you are the size of a Blueberry! So cute, but so good at making me feel yuck, ha ha. The nausea is really getting strong now, and I feel like I have a mouthful of saliva and have to swallow and swallow at times. My sense of...
Diary of a Pregnancy Week 5: Dear Baby, I am so excited! I am finally pregnant and beginning to feel it. I don’t know if it is my imagination, but my waistbands are starting to feel a little bit tight. I am definitely still feeling bloated and almost like I will have...
Deciding to have a baby and falling pregnant is an exciting time for all who choose to embark on this journey. Doula Donna Bland begins a series about the different stages of pregnancy and what you can expect along the way. Believe it or not, in the first couple of...
Gestational diabetes wasn’t something that mommy influencer Reevana Govender had planned for. She writes about her experience. Getting the news that I had failed my standard glucose tolerance test at 28 weeks came as a shock to me and being diagnosed as a gestational...
It is important to ensure that you are getting the right nutrition for you and your baby during pregnancy. Darshan Pather spoke to dietician Deidre Lindeque about the best pregnancy power foods to include in your diet. ‘Eating for two’ during pregnancy is a myth with...
While your baby-to-be bobs around in the comfort of your watery womb, you can reap the benefits of immersing yourself in aqua-therapy. Biokineticist Jenna-Lee Field explains why this is a great option for pregnant women. Aqua-therapy during pregnancy is one of the...
Nutrition during pregnancy is about quality, not quantity. Dietician Deidre Lindeque helps you to eat for your and your unborn child’s best health. From the day a mom-to-be discovers that she is pregnant she needs to start ‘eating for two’. Contrary to popular...
It’s amazing how your pregnancy can make everyone you meet completely lose their filters. Doula Donna Bland runs through the most common things you’re likely to hear. What is it about pregnancy that makes people think it’s okay to ask wird personal questions and give...
Hospitals and doctors’ rooms may not feel like the safest place to be right now, but if you’re pregnant, you still need to be having all your antenatal checks, writes Dr Enrico Maraschin. A professor of Obstetrics from Cape Town University recently hosted a webinar on...
You’ve just started a new eating plan, or better yet, a new training plan, and you find out that you are expecting. The first thing you might think is: I don’t want to gain weight, or how am I going to lose all that baby fat? To exercise or not to exercise You are now...
