Your Pregnancy

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Before having children, I would get very angry if anyone dared suggest that hormones were somehow in charge of my emotions or decisions or abilities, especially if it was a man who had ventured such an opinion out loud. My big brother once teased tha

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It’s less unusual, than in the time of our moms at least, to let some time pass – to live life kids-free for a bit, or become established in our careers – before having children. This has meant though that fertility experts are in demand to help us a

LESSON Change happens. We need to accept the things we cannot change. We can survive change and find happiness. “I felt ashamed. Sad. I didn’t want the fairytale life to end for my children. Overcoming this guilt was the hardest part of telling them,

And so, your child learns “One should make it easy and rewarding for a child to tell the truth,” Hettie says. Set a rule that when your child comes to you voluntarily to report damage, a mess or something she has lost, there will be no punishment, ju

Email your question for our experts to: sharing@ypbmagazine.com Please note that experts unfortunately cannot respond to each question personally. The answers provided on these pages should not replace the advice of your doctor. Q I’m 29 years old an

Unfortunately, there’s no way of preventing this from forming (it occurs in as much as 75 percent of pregnancies), and numerous topical treatments contain ingredients that are contraindicated during pregnancy. “Sunscreen is still the best topical app

An epidural is a form of local anaesthetic. An anaesthetist will administer an epidural by injecting a specific area of your spine, called the epidural space. It effectively blocks pain signals from reaching your brain, so you feel little or no pain

“What are you doing?!” This was the astounded question Manny Ranaka asked his wife, Lerato, when he got home from work one evening to find her standing on a ladder in their bedroom, gluing up wallpaper. Manny’s problem wasn’t with Lerato’s choice of

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The statistics for the development of the heart of a foetus will have any prospective mom beaming from ear to ear. Dr Marise Pretorius, a gynaecologist and obstetrician from Bloemfontein, says even though we can’t see it on a sonar, a foetus’ heart s