sample wasn’t taken at your first appointment, your midwife will take this now. 18-20 weeks A foetal anomaly scan is usually offered. This is a detailed scan of your baby. The scan operator will look at your baby’s head, face, spine, limbs, heart

A: It varies for every mum-to-be, but you can expect to feel your first kick between 16 and 22 weeks.It may feel like fluttering, or even trapped wind.Monitor your baby's movements from 24 weeks so you know what's normal for him. Call your midwife or hospital if you're worried ab...

Try a fry for a healthy baby While a traditional fry-up of eggs, bacon, liver and kidneys may not appeal to those mums-to-be battling morning sickness, the benefits from a nutrient called choline, which is related to the Vitamin B family, has been found to help cells grow and wo...

. Vitabiotics Pregnacare Conception provides a carefully balanced, comprehensive formulation for the maintenance of reproductive health in women. The formula combines the exact recommended level of micronutrients to safeguard the early stages of foetal

Women should meet the daily recommended allowance of both folic acid and vitamin B12 when trying to conceive, and during the first trimester of pregnancy, a new study suggests. The Department of Health currently advises women thinking of starting a family to take a daily folic ac...

There are a number of ways in which your baby's heartbeat can be monitored during labour: Using a foetal stethoscope: it looks a bit like a plastic trumpet and is placed on your tummy so that the midwife can hear the foetal heart by placing her ear

be that, in order to get part of the brain to mature in the correct way, you need a certain stimulus, and yawning might be that stimulus," said Nadja Reissland, a psychologist who specialises in foetal development at Durham University."Unlike us, foetuses

If your baby is born prematurely, take heart and try to remember that there's never been a safer time to be born prematurely.Professor Lucilla Poston, head of maternal and foetal research at St Thomas' Hospital, London, says: 'A lot of babies

drip and constant foetal heart monitoringPossible side effects include shivering and severe headachesQuestions to ask your MidwifeHospital policies vary, but finding out everything you can in advance will help you feel more in control. How many

of spontaneous premature labour, foetal distress and, in very severe cases, stillbirth. This all sounds scary, but the good news is that doctors also believe that, if your pregnancy is carefully managed, you have regular blood tests and take medication to try