Maternity Health

24/12/2025

⛄A Little Message...⛄

24/12/2025

23/12/2025

🥰A Little Message...🥰

18/12/2025

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18/12/2025

⚠️Safe sleep & Xmas Alcohol...⚠️

Over the festive season, you might drink alcohol. And that's OK! You are allowed to celebrate and relax... BUT...
It’s so important that you and your partner do not co-sleep with your baby if either of you have had any amount of alcohol.
(Co-sleeping includes sharing a bed, sofa or chair with your baby to sleep).
There is an increased risk of your baby being accidently suffocated if you have had an alcoholic drink (or any drugs).

If you are staying away with family for instance, please make additional allowances & space for a separate safe place for your baby to sleep safely.
Use a cot or Moses basket so your baby is safe.

Studies have found that bed-sharing with your baby after drinking alcohol or using drugs has a very high risk of SIDS. Sleeping close to a smoker also greatly increases the chance of SIDS. Please dont take that risk.

Please access The Lullaby Trust for further information:
https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/baby-safety/safer-sleep-information/co-sleeping/

17/12/2025

🌟Pregnant & not drinking at Christmas🌟

Shhhhh! 😇

If you are in the early stages of pregnancy, and don’t feel quite ready to divulge your special news, here are some top tips to disguise the fact you are avoiding the bubbly this party season:
🍹Order Mocktails:
No one need know the alcohol has been skipped – there’s loads to sample!

(oops the forgotten spirit!..) Without tasting it, no one will be any the wiser that your vodka and coke is missing the vodka!

The good old “I’m taking antibiotics, so can’t have a drink” excuse..

Say you are still hungover from night before / saving yourself for night after / have a busy day ahead and need to be on top form – all valid reasons to be avoiding the Christmas bubbly.

Offer to be ‘Designated Driver’ this year: depending on where you are partying it might be quite reasonable to have chosen to drive to the event, safety first!

“Im Saving the Pennies”: Christmas can get expensive / Cost of Living Crisis – tell people you are choosing to have a cheap night and sticking to the Lemonade.

With just some minor alterations, Christmas + New Year + Bump can still be a special time! There are some positives in not drinking – NO HANGOVER!

Don’t feel like you are missing out, aswell as yummy mocktails, you can buy some really tasty alcohol free drinks now, so start sampling. This includes beer, cider, wines, gins and tasty cordials and juices.

Try:
🍸Christmas Mocktail: 4 cups Cranberry Juice, 2 cups Pineapple Juice, 2 cups orange juice, Ice, Sprite or sparkling water (optional) & Sugar (optional to decorate the glass rims)
🍹Banana Smoothie: 1 banana, a pinch of nutmeg, half a teaspoon of vanilla extract, a cup of milk and two cups of crushed ice. Put in a blender and whip up a deliciously thick smoothie.
🍷Cinderella: 2 shots of pineapple juice, orange juice, lemon juice, ice, soda water and a dash of grenadine creates a lovely Christmassy coloured mocktail. Garnish with a slice of pineapple or a cherry.

You can still have a great time at Christmas and the New Year and be pregnant!!