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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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