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- Alcohol, smoking and drug use in pregnancy
- Baby and child nutrition
- Baby's health
- Blood and the rhesus factor
- Child-rearing and child development
- Childbirth and pain relief
Babies & Pregnancy
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Getting pregnant - maximise your chances
Read moreFind information on getting pregnant, fertility, pre-pregnancy nutrition, tests during pregnancy, pain relief for childbirth, miscarriage, newborn screening and your new baby. Use our due date calculator, ovulation calculator and many other tools.
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Follow your baby's development - step by step
Read moreFind information on getting pregnant, fertility, pre-pregnancy nutrition, tests during pregnancy, pain relief for childbirth, miscarriage, newborn screening and your new baby. Use our due date calculator, ovulation calculator and many other tools.
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Find out when you're most fertile
Read moreFind information on getting pregnant, fertility, pre-pregnancy nutrition, tests during pregnancy, pain relief for childbirth, miscarriage, newborn screening and your new baby. Use our due date calculator, ovulation calculator and many other tools.
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- Amniocentesis: what you need to know
- Animation: newborn baby's senses
- Baby's cot: making your baby's cot SIDS safe
- Baby's development in the womb
- Child development milestones
- Contraception: male sterilisation
- Epidurals
- Female reproductive organs
- Hydrocoeles
- Menstrual cycle: normal
- Ovulation testing
- Rhesus-negative blood and pregnancy
- Ultrasound
Latest News
- Breastfeeding mums ignore guidelines
- Pregnant women neglect asthma medicines
- Babies spurn antisocial behaviour
- Fibroid removal may reduce recurrent miscarriage
- Baby sling warning after death of newborn
- Contraception advice on missed pills changing
- Smoking in pregnancy may raise baby's future heart risk
- Epilepsy: newer medicines safer in pregnancy
- Crohn's medicine adalimumab in pregnancy may raise baby's infection risk
- Iodine deficiency still common in pregnant women
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Birth stories
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