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You're expecting

• How do I know I'm pregnant?
• I’m pregnant - what should I do now?
• My pregnancy journey

Your pregnancy

• Looking after yourself during pregnancy
  • Early pregnancy
  • Folic acid
  • Vitamins and minerals
  • Keeping fit and healthy
  • Reasons to stop smoking
  • Alcohol during pregnancy
  • Medicine and drugs
  • Eating well
    • Choosing healthy foods
    • Foods you can eat safely
    • Precautions to take when preparing food
    • What foods to avoid
  • Oral Health in Pregnancy
  • Seasonal flu vaccination during pregnancy
  • Safety during lambing season
• Antenatal care
  • Your healthcare during pregnancy
  • Where will you give birth?
  • Who's involved in looking after you?
  • Having an ultrasound scan
  • Tests and checks you may have
  • Twins and multiple births
• Pregnant life
  • What to wear
  • When to tell people
  • Sex during pregnancy
  • Emotions: how you and your partner may be feeling
  • Weight gain and other changes to your body
  • Travel
  • Maternity leave and other benefits and payments
• Problems in pregnancy
  • Minor problems in pregnancy
  • More serious complications
  • Premature birth or preterm babies
  • When pregnancy goes wrong
• Getting ready for parenthood
  • Planning ahead
  • Antenatal classes
  • Braxton Hicks
  • Reasons to breastfeed
    • Vitamin K
  • Being a single parent
  • Thinking about safety
  • Planning your finances
• Planning for the birth
  • Thinking about the birth
  • Pain relief in labour
  • What to pack
  • Your baby's position
  • Last minute things to think about
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Your due date
• Your pregnancy timeline

Labour and birth

• The first stage
  • What to look for
  • Early labour
  • Coping with early labour
  • Checks and monitoring during labour
• The second stage
  • Giving birth to your baby
  • If you and your baby need help
  • First moments
    • Skin-to-skin
• The third stage
  • Routine actions in the third stage
  • Being in hospital and going back home

First days together

• First days
  • Getting to know your baby
  • Tests you will be offered for your baby
  • Babies who need extra care
  • Going home
  • Registering the birth of your baby
• Caring for your baby
  • Nappies
  • Clothes and equipment
  • Car safety
  • Bathing your baby
    • Bathing your baby: step-by-step
  • Crying
  • Safe sleeping
• Feeding your baby
  • Options for feeding your baby
  • Breastfeeding
    • Breastfeeding: step-by-step
    • Breast care
  • Expressing your own milk
  • Formula feeding your baby
• Feeding your baby
  • Options for feeding your baby
  • Breastfeeding
    • Breastfeeding: step-by-step
    • Breast care
  • Expressing your own milk
  • Formula feeding your baby
• Looking after yourself

Growing together

• What you can expect, month by month
  • What you can expect at 1-2 months
  • What you can expect at 3-4 months
  • What you can expect at 5-6 months
  • What you can expect at 7-8 months
  • What you can expect at 9-10 months
  • What you can expect at 11-12 months
• Postnatal depression
  • Understanding postnatal depression
  • Getting help with PND
  • Overcoming PND together
• Looking after your growing baby
  • Your baby’s immunisations
  • Playing with your baby
    • Reading to your baby
  • Childcare and babysitting
  • Weaning your baby
    • Recipe ideas
  • Teething
  • Safety and your growing baby
  • If your baby is ill
    • Meningitis and septicaemia
  • Communicating with your growing baby