Anxiety is a far more common issue with new mums than postnatal depression. For many women, anxiety, not sadness, is what they feel after having their baby.It can start in pregnancy and once the baby...

Village Life Nurse Bracken is the reason I became a midwife. Growing up in a tiny English village, Levens, in the South of Cumbria near the Lake District, where families had their own midwife. It's...

More parents are taking a babymoon before welcoming a new baby into their life. Approximately 1:5 parents have it on their bucket list. They are seeing it as one last opportunity to holiday as a...

Older mothers get bagged in the press all the time and the maternity unit calls them such disparaging names as elderly primigravida (old mum, first baby).My little sister had these names banded at her and...