For lots of women the first trimester symptoms are fairly well known, they might hit harder than you expect, but the nausea, sickness, exhaustion are expected and, to some degree, reassuring when you don’t have anything else to show you are pregnant (other than a test!). Then things might pick up a bit and you start to feel a bit more back to yourself. Plus you might have heard that the second trimester is where you feel good – your energy comes back, you aren’t too uncomfo

Whenever I mention the psoas muscle in classes I tend to find no one has heard of them. Not really surprising, they aren’t muscles we tend to talk about or think about very much. I hadn’t heard of them until I started on my training to teach antenatal classes. Now I know that they play a really important role in your pregnancy and your birth. The psoas muscles sit in your pelvis, with two muscles on either side. They are deep in your body running from the lower spine throug

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

It isn’t one of the common pregnancy ailments you might have heard about before but it is something that comes up in pretty much every...

I have recently been doing some prenatal yoga training which has been brilliant to remind of all the amazing benefits of pregnancy yoga....