Helpful expert advice and tips for you

Why reduce stress and anxiety during pregnancy? Women often feel anxious or stressed when pregnant. When being over anxious all the time the stress can affect the baby’s emotional development...

Pregnancy can be an exciting time however, it is rarely without challenges. From pregnancy sickness to backache, pregnancy can at times be downright uncomfortable. Just when you think you have...

Breathing Exercises: 5 Benefits of using breathing techniques for mother and her unborn baby, plus 1 breathing exercises in labour. These will give emotional support during pregnancy.

Giving thanks to the incredible women in your life on a day of thanks and appreciation is just the best. Mothering Sunday and Mother’s Day both have different origins; although...

Natural Lip Balms are so important to prevent dry lips for all the family - women, men and children - as our lips are exposed to the elements all year...

Here is all the information you need to know about sugar lip scrub. Why they’re important! How to use them and their benefits. Make Motherlylove Sweet Lips Scrub an important...

When I heard from our doctor 26 weeks into my pregnancy, "You are, unfortunately, a Gestational Diabetic", my heart almost stopped beating.

When pregnant, your hormones bring about amazing changes to your body, hair, skin and almost every part of your body. When you are pregnant you want to feel calm and...

Is expressed hind breast milk was more beneficial than ointments?

This hand and arm massage in pregnancy is the best gift you can give a pregnant lady. Warning can be addictive.

Whilst you might be offered plenty of conflicting advice about what you can and should do to stay active, experts (including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) agree that you...

REMEMBER TO PACK YOUR CAMERA If you are expecting and packing your hospital bag or planning your home birth. I urge you to include a camera, memory card & batteries...

Great Tips you can use to reduce perineal tears When pregnant your body begins to get ready for the birth of your baby, hormones (progesterone and relaxin) are softening your...

5 ways to help you stop snoring during pregnancy This is a dilemma when it happens when you are pregnant and especially when you disturb your partner.

As you can probably envisage, a breadfruit is a large, round fruit that looks something like a melon. My husband and I first heard this expression when we announced our...

In pregnancy moisturising and nourishing your skin with pure natural carrier oils will keep a healthy glow and allow the skin to be supple and stretch.

A large Dutch home birth study showed the benefits and safety of home birth

RESEARCH HAS IDENTIFIED THAT OVER 85% OF WOMEN HAVING A NORMAL BIRTH SUFFER SOME PERINEAL TRAUMA. Studies have shown that by massaging the perineum from 34 weeks of pregnancy, the...