Congratulations! - especially if this is your first baby.
Pregnancy should be a wonderful time, but it can be worrying too: in a few short months you will be responsible for a little baby who will be totally relying on you (and your partner). So you have a relatively short period of time to learn how to cope.
Pregnancy Month By Month
There’s plenty of help available to you: your own family, friends, your doctor/nurse/midwife. There’s the internet too and we hope you will find this site useful.On a more light-hearted note:
if you don’t yet know whether baby will be a boy or girl, try the Chinese Pregnancy Chart! It is supposed to predict the sex of your baby if you know the month baby was conceived. A joke? Well, the ancient chart exists in a museum in China.
Here you will find a list of articles about being pregnant.
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One important decision you need to make during pregnancy is where you will give birth. Here are some of the things to consider before reaching your decision.
You can use your pregnancy as time to research your options for the birth. Talk to other women to find out about their experiences, discuss the issues with your midwife and read about them, too. Read the rest…
What to expect
This section covers things you need to know about bringing up children - from bathing them 
as babies to helping them find a foot on the career ladder - and generally keeping them out of harm’s way.Warm, loving communication between you and your child enables them to build a sense of identity.Books and magazines about raising children - especially about babies, toddlers and teens - have never been more popular. Yet there’s a whole hidden area of childhood in-between that almost no one seems to write about.Between the ages of about five and nine, friendships usually form quite casually and may change very rapidly. Your child may be great friends with someone one day, then best pals with somebody else the next.Noise, activity and curiosity are features of your child between ages four to seven. Watch their vivid imagination go into overdrive..By the time they reach school age, children develop an established sense of self-esteem. Read the rest…
It can take time before it happens and the wait can be worrying - and the worrying itself can even prolong the waiting!
So calm down, do some research into how to improve your chances of becoming pregnant and get all the advice that’s out there. Hopefully some of the articles below will add to your knowledge and some will make you smile. If you have been trying unsuccessfully for over one year to conceive then talk to your doctor. Start keeping charts and take your temperature each morning to see when is the best time to try for your baby.
Conceiving a baby - tips
The odds of a young fertile couple conceiving by having sexual intercourse around the time of ovulation (the release of the egg from the ovary) are approximately one in five every month. Around nine out of 10 couples achieve a pregnancy after one year of unprotected sex. There are various strategies that can improve your odds of conceiving. Identifying the woman’s fertile phase is the most important.
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12 September 2006 - by Thea
This page gives you access to frequently asked questions and advice covering the many aspects of parenting, 
from preconception, toddlers and teenagers to childcare, finance and support.
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- Eating fads
- Eating habits: teen
- Eating lumpy food: babies
- Eating worries: toddler
- Education support: primary
- Exercise for disabled pre-teen
- Explaining sex to a toddler
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- Fathers and overprotective mothers
- Feet growth in teenagers
- Fluid intake in toddlers
- Flying in late pregnancy
- Flying during pregnancy
- Food for a baby
- Food for a fussy toddler
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- Go-karting during pregnancy
- Grazing eating habit
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- Headbanging toddler
- Hitting: toddler
- Homework concentration: teens
- Homework trouble: pre-teen
- Homosexuality
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- Imaginary friends
- Incontinence during pregnancy
- Iron supplements for vegetarian baby
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- Labour contractions
- Lack of concentration
- Late for school: teen
- Leg pains during pregnancy
- Losing weight baby
- Low self-esteem: brothers
- Lumpy food: baby
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- Male fertility
- Miscarriage discharge while pregnant
- Miscarriage symptoms
- Moody teenager
- More children
- Morning sickness
- Moving house: effects on children
- Multivitamins and pregnancy
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- Night feeding
- Night waking: toddler
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- Paternity leave
- Pocket money
- Positive parenting
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy scans
- Pregnant: telling people
- Pregnancy test
- Pregnant x-ray
- Puberty signs at seven years
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- Quality time with children
- Quickening
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- Racial bullying
- Registering for pregnancy tests
- Religion and children
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- Salt and babies
- Scared of monsters
- School: late teen
- Sex and drugs: teenagers
- Sex: explaining to a toddler
- Sick child: work
- Sitting upright: baby
- Sleeping in parents’ bed
- Smacking children
- Smoking pre-teen
- Speech development: toddler
- Stealing pre-teen
- Stimulating your toddler
- Swearing children
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- Talking about death
- Tantrums: toddler
- Teaching children religion
- Test for pregnancy
- Thumb-sucking
- Time to care for sick child
- Toddler: discipline
- Toilet training
- Toilet training poo
- Toilet training: when to start
- TV in child’s room
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- Walking to school alone
- Weaning, salt and babies
- Weight loss baby
- Why phase
- Work: time to care for sick child
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