In the late 1990s, when I was 18, I sat 3 A-levels and got good grades – an A for English Literature, a B for Business Studies and a C for French. I was accepted at my first choice of university to study law and took up my place 6 weeks after getting my A-level [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pregnancy’
Too Much Too Young
Posted in Children, Parents, tagged career, pregnancy, teenagers on February 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Does maternity really matter?
Posted in Health, pregnancy, tagged maternity, pregnancy on February 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Back in 2007, the Department of Health published a report entitled “Maternity Matters”. This document included the explicit guarantee that by the end of 2009, all pregnant women (medical needs permitting) would be able choose whether to give birth in either a consultant-led unit, a midwife-led unit or at home. This was welcomed enthusiastically by [...]
Playing Russian roulette with your fertility?
Posted in Health, pregnancy, tagged contraception, fertility, pregnancy on February 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Did you know this week is Contraceptive Awareness Week? “If you are over 35, ovulating, having regular periods, unprotected sex and you know you or your partner is not clinically infertile, every month there’s a chance you’ll get pregnant.” A salutory tale currently being told by the Family Planning Association in it’s campaign Conceivable. Apparently [...]
The Birth, the Home and the Dangerous Midwife
Posted in Health, pregnancy, tagged homebirth, maternity, Media, pregnancy on February 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I felt sickened when I heard about the ordeal experienced by Victoria Anderson at the hands of Susan Rose, an Independent Midwife who cared for her during her pregnancy and home birth. A mismanaged pregnancy and birth led to not only health problems for the mother but a life long physical disability for her child. [...]
8 boys wanting a girl
Posted in 0-5s, pregnancy, tagged gender, girls, PGD, pregnancy on February 5, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Last night I watched “8 boys wanting a girl”, as a mum of 3 boys followed by a girl I thought perhaps the programme might carry thoughts I would resonate with and it did, but very few. How can any mother knowingly destroy perfectly healthy male embryos just because they aren’t female? I found this [...]
Baby Brain
Posted in Health, pregnancy, tagged memory, pregnancy, psychology on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I couldn’t resist writing about this: the claim – – being pregnant doesn’t turn you into a forgetful loon! Not many mums will agree with that – we all remember the fuzzy headed feeling of pregnancy, the lack of ability to remember anything. It seems to last for years for some of us! And the [...]
