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How to ease the pregnancy heartburn
75% of women will experience some heartburn in later pregnancy. There are a number of causes, but in short, your hormones will make the sphincters at the base and the top of your stomach very slightly relaxed and your baby will be pushing your stomach up towards your ribcage. Put the two together and you…
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…
Tiredness in pregnancy
Tiredness can be a particular problem for women in the first and last three months of pregnancy. In the early stages, you may feel unbelievably tired and sleepy, almost as if you’ve been drugged. This is caused by pregnancy hormones. Towards the end of your pregnancy you may feel tired because of your increased size and weight, because…
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Tagged anaemia, Heartburn, hormones, nausea, Sleep, sleeping, tiredness
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Heartburn in pregnancy
Heartburn is a type of indigestion in which the acid juices from your stomach leak back up into your gullet. This causes a burning feeling in your chest. Heartburn is very common in pregnancy, affecting around two in three women. This is because the pregnancy hormones relax the valve at the entrance to your stomach so that it doesn’t…
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Tagged acid, antacid, Heartburn, Indigestion, Pre-eclampsia, stomach
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Weight gain during pregnancy
Weight gain is a source of great anxiety to many pregnant women. You may worry about putting on too much weight during pregnancy, and not being able to lose it afterwards, or about not gaining enough, and how this might affect your baby. In fact, women vary tremendously in the amount of weight gain during pregnancy, and there’s no…
Babies get heartburn : acid reflux
Acid reflux is thought to affect twenty per cent of all babies but what exactly is it and how is it treated? If your baby has gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and you wonder if the crying and vomiting will ever stop, here are some strategies to help you cope. What is reflux? Reflux simply means liquid flowing in the…
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Tagged Baby colic, Colic, Crying, gastro-oesophageal reflux, Gaviscon, Heartburn, Massage, pain, Reflux, Symptoms, vomiting
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