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Small-For-Date Babies: Support with Nutrition and Acupuncture

Sometimes an unborn baby can be small for your stage of pregnancy. Small-for-date babies can occur for a wide variety of different ...

Beating Mummy Burnout

Beating Mummy Burnout is a guest post by Pinky McKay. There’s no burnout without fire goes the saying, and there is ...

Acupressure For Constipation During Pregnancy

Constipation during pregnancy is often caused by a blockage of energy, or Qi, in your large intestine. In this piece, Rebecca ...

Threatened Miscarriage

It’s one of those things you hope never happens to you but when it does, it simply does. You can feel ...

Overcoming Anxiety

Overcoming Anxiety with Mindfulness Therapy By Sarah Hensley BA, Grad Dip Psychology, Grad Dip Counselling, Psychotherapy & Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy ...

The Fundamentals of Exercise: Pre, During, and Post Baby

By Anna-Maria Boelskov, yoga teacher and nutritionist Often we get asked about exercise before, during and after birth. While there is ...

Two Keys to Overcoming Your Pregnancy Anxiety

It’s quite common: pregnancy anxiety. And why not! There’s a lot going on inside your body that feels completely new. As ...

Pregnancy Massage Research

Pregnancy massage reduces prematurity, low birth weight and postpartum depression. Pregnant women diagnosed with major depression were given 12 weeks of ...

Acupuncture and Migraines

Acupuncture and Migraines A landmark British study (2004) set out to examine the relationship between acupuncture and migraines. Can this gentle ...