It might feel like a big question – what on earth has happened to your stomach? Your body is absolutely amazing during pregnancy. There are so many visible and invisible changes happening as your baby grows. Some are more obvious – the bump is usually pretty apparent – but others you can’t see. Your heart works harder, your blood volume increases and there is a big rearrangement of everything inside your abdomen.   In order to accommodate your growing baby your abdominal musc

Most of the women I speak to find such a difference between a first and a subsequent pregnancy. Not so much the symptoms and niggles (although they can be very different too!) but the mindset, the juggling and, frankly, remembering you are pregnant.    In your first pregnancy you are usually really focused on the pregnancy. You know how many days and weeks you are, when your next appointment is coming up, what size your baby is this week, and how they are developing.   You ar

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