

Postnatal Instructions: the "Owner's Manual" to your New Baby
Top tips from a midwife on what to watch out for once you take your newborn home from the hospital. Most new parents report feeling one thing as they take their first baby home from the hospital: when do the grown-ups arrive who are going to keep this child alive? Many parents today have little or no experience at all with newborn babies right up to the moment we are handed our own and are expected to be fully responsible for him or her. We usually feel completely out of ou


15 things nobody tells you about recovering from childbirth
Top tips from a midwife on what to watch out for during your postnatal recovery. Having a baby is one of the most profound transformations a woman will ever go through--physically, hormonally, emotionally, and even on a cellular level. You have just been through a major physical feat of labor and/or a major abdominal surgery in order to birth your baby. Now you are being sent home with a baby, and here in the UAE there will not be a midwife checking up on you or a health vi