Pregnant women have been issued with a new list of don’ts as senior doctors recommend they should consider cutting down on make-up and plastic-wrapped food, among other measures, despite having no evidence of their risks. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has today published guidelines that are already proving controversial among medical experts […]

A new anti-teen pregnancy campaign has been unveiled in the US this week, featuring pictures of pregnant boys. The new billboards — which have been rolled out in Chicago’s city centre, suburbs, buses and trains this week — show teen boys with bulging baby bumps alongside the slogan: “Unexpected? Most teen pregnancies are.” The Chicago […]

The head of anti-smoking authority Quit Victoria has echoed calls to breath-test pregnant women to check if they are smoking after Britain’s healthcare body successfully introduced the scheme. Carbon monoxide breath tests, enforced by Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, are proposed to be administered by midwives at antenatal appointments. The new measures […]

Would you serve a pregnant woman alcohol? If not, you’d be acting illegally and could be sued, as Triana O’Keefe discovered recently. Working in a bar I am often confronted with situations of which I’m going to describe as less than ideal. To be honest the job description should have read ‘Local bar seeks tender […]

Pregnant and proud – these celebs are flaunting their baby bumps as the excitedly await their newborn babies!

Sofia Vergara has revealed she is planning to use a surrogate to start a family with her fiance Nick Loeb.

Parents-to-be are no longer waiting until the 12-week mark to share their pregnancy news, with many telling family and friends just seven weeks after conception. Traditionally, women have been advised to wait until after their first trimester passes to tell people they are expecting because of the high risk of miscarriage in the first three […]

A girlfriend of mine recently gave birth in a private hospital. She had been fit and healthy throughout her pregnancy, with no complications. Her weight gain was average, her bump lovely, and she was expecting a little girl. A week before she was due, her obstetrician asked if she would “like to have the baby […]

When Halle Berry, 46, announced her pregnancy on Saturday, readers couldn’t wait to voice their disapproval at her “selfish” decision to have a child so late in life. Here, Zoe Arnold asks why we love to hate older women having babies. Last week Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry announced she was pregnant again. Beyond our fascination […]

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry is pregnant with her second child at age 46.