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Your baby is fussy at the breast, feeding every hour, and won’t settle no matter what you try. Somewhere between exhaustion and 3am panic-googling, a diagnosis starts to form in your head: not enough milk. Or maybe it’s tongue-tie. Or maybe you already gave one bottle of formula last week and now you’re convinced you’ve

There’s a specific kind of overwhelm that comes with being pregnant far from home. It’s not just the usual first-time-mother nerves, it’s googling “hospital vs clinic Abu Dhabi” at 11pm, wondering if your insurance actually covers a C-section, and realising your mum, who’d normally be three streets away with a casserole and a hundred opinions,

There’s a moment almost every family has, somewhere in the first weeks with a newborn: handing the baby over to a nanny for the first time and feeling that flicker of “does she actually know what she’s doing?” It’s not a lack of trust exactly, it’s the sudden, sharp realization that “great with kids” and

Somewhere around day four or five after birth, it hits, a wave of tearfulness that seems to come from nowhere, over something as small as your baby’s socks not matching. Everyone around you nods knowingly and says “ah, that’s just the baby blues.” And for most mothers, that’s exactly what it is: a wave that

Nobody warns you properly about this part. You spent months picturing the feeding itself as the easy bit, the labour was supposed to be the hard part, and then your baby latches on and it feels like glass. You grit your teeth through a feed, check the clock, dread the next one starting in two

Nobody warns you properly about this part. You spent months picturing the feeding itself as the easy bit, the labour was supposed to be the hard part, and then your baby latches on and it feels like glass. You grit your teeth through a feed, check the clock, dread the next one starting in two

You’ve just found out you’re pregnant, and within about twenty minutes of googling “next steps,” you’ve hit a wall of terminology that nobody stops to explain: OB/GYN, midwife, obstetrician, gynaecologist, sometimes all used as if they mean the same thing. Then someone in your mums’ WhatsApp group mentions their “independent midwife” like it’s an entirely

At some point in your pregnancy, usually in a WhatsApp group, a waiting room, or a well-meaning comment from someone who heard it from someone else, you’ll hear it: “did you know breastfeeding is actually the law here?” And if you’re anything like most new mothers in the UAE when they first hear it, that

There is a particular kind of quiet that fills a home in the first days after a baby arrives. It is not always a peaceful quiet. Sometimes it is the quiet of a mother sitting alone at 3 a.m., baby at her breast, wondering if she is doing this right. Sometimes it is the quiet

Few moments test a family like the arrival of a baby before they were ready to say hello. Premature birth is more common than many parents expect, and it can be frightening, confusing, and lonely. Understanding why babies are born too soon, and knowing what genuine support looks like, can make an enormous difference to

Imagine going through your entire pregnancy, your birth, and those overwhelming first weeks with a newborn, and having the same familiar midwife beside you the whole way. Not a rotating cast of strangers at every appointment, but one person who knows your history, your worries, and your hopes. That is the heart of caseload midwifery,

If you’ve just had a baby and something feels off, not tired-off, but a heavier, harder-to-name kind of off, you are not imagining it, and you are very far from alone. Postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of childbirth anywhere in the world, and Abu Dhabi is no exception. In fact, research

Ask any woman who has felt it, and she’ll tell you: the fear of childbirth is not “just nerves.” It is real, it can be overwhelming, and for some women it shapes decisions long before a pregnancy test ever turns positive. This intense fear has a name, tokophobia, and it deserves to be taken seriously