Labour/delivery Features

Babymooning

The baby is due in a few months, but you're yet to attend your ante-natal classes, let alone write a birth plan. There just aren't enough hours in the day and you're starting to panic. It's time to consider joining in the latest trend to be imported from America and go on a 'babymooning' weekend

Beating the baby blues

Helping yourself when you've got the baby blue

Birth plan? You're joking

Birth plans, according to Fiona Gibson don?t always go according to pla

Birth story: Born into my hands at home

When iVillager Debra Parker planned her home birth she didn't expect to deliver her baby alone, but that's exactly what happened

Birth story: induced labour

A quick, induced labour without painkillers following a stillbirth the year before

Birth story: Maire Devine

What it's like to give birth around Christmas

Breast performance

Do big breasts produce big amounts of milk

Bulging veins and other nasties

Natural remedies for treating varicose veins and haemorrhoids during pregnanc

Caesarean birth - no pain, no strain

The pros and cons of elective caesaria

Can I get HIV from giving birth in water?

Can women contract any diseases, like HIV, from giving birth in the water