Doing yoga during pregnancy has myriad benefits to the mother-to-be. Here, yoga teacher Susan Bradley extols the virtues – from breathwork that helps reduce stress and improves labour, to connecting with your baby and being part of a community…
pregnancy
Family
When Scarlett Russell discovered she was pregnant, she and her partner Chris were delighted – they had conceived quickly. But they soon discovered the pregnancy was ectopic and a harrowing process began…
Family
As Annie Ridout’s body becomes transformed by pregnancy, strangers can’t seem to help themselves from commenting. Usually with: “God, you’re huge.” Here’s why the commentary needs to stop…
Family
Mothers-to-be are often advised to keep their pregnancies quiet until around the 12-week scan, when the chances of miscarriage become lower. But Annie Ridout disagrees with this. Here’s why…
Family
Rebecca Schiller on her new book – Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan. “It’s my way of countering some of the judgement, bullshit, guilt and narrow representations of motherhood that are out there.”
Work Life
Amidst all this talk of shared parental leave – low uptake for the men, the fault lying with outdated work cultures and sexist bosses – there’s an important voice missing: the mothers. Maybe 98 per cent of leave is taken by women because that’s what they’d prefer…
Work Life
The editor, Annie Ridout, has benefitted from having a business mentor to help her with The Early Hour. Now she’d like to offer a mentorship to another freelance mum, in need of some guidance…
Wellbeing
Childbirth elicits fear in most first-time mums – will it be painful? How will I cope? This is why hypnotherapy classes, promising drug-free pain relief, have taken off in recent years. Juliet Forsyth puts forward her argument for personalised hypnobirthing…
Sleep
Lucy Crotty left her one-bed flat in London for a house in Kent while heavily pregnant. But the stress of raising a toddler and a newborn in a building site led to postnatal insomnia. Here’s what it felt like, and how she recovered…
Family
Infertility can dominate your every waking thought: will it ever happen? How can I increase my chances? The editor Annie Ridout writes about how using alternative therapies – acupuncture, hypnotherapy, CBT – helped her to conceive…