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Sleep during pregnancy

If you think the words sleep and pregnancy don’t belong in the same sentence, you’re not alone. Sixty per cent of pregnant women say they take a nap over the weekend while more than half admit to taking at least one nap during the working week. Read on to find out what you can do for a good night’s…

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Dizziness and fainting in pregnancy

Feeling dizzy or faint is quite common, especially in early pregnancy. Pregnancy hormones cause your blood vessels to relax and widen. This is nature’s way of improving the flow of blood to your baby, but has the side effect of slowing the return of venous blood. This causes your blood pressure to be lower than usual, so that if…

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Happy Halloween

The spookiest night of the year is fast approaching and, although we haven’t got to the level of commercialism in the same way as our transatlantic neighbours, over recent years the UK has started to adopt some of the events associated with Halloween such as trick or treating and dressing up in scary costumes. Whilst most people believe that…

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