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Conception and early pregnancy :
Getting pregnant
Assisted conception
Discovering you're pregnant & telling other people
Symptoms and feelings in early weeks

Maternity care :
First contacts with services
Advice on health and lifestyle
Maternity care and antenatal visits
Antenatal classes and preparation for birth
Finding information and support

Physical and emotional aspects of pregnancy :
Emotions during pregnancy
Relationships and sex
Sickness and hyperemesis
Pain and discomfort
Bleeding and miscarriage
Other conditions in pregnancy
Rarer complications
Pregnancy with another condition or disability
When something is wrong with the baby

Reflecting on birth choices and experiences :
Thinking about where and how to give birth
Pain and pain relief
Looking back- vaginal birth
Looking back- caesarean birth
Twins and breech presentation
Looking back- preterm birth and special care
Stillbirth and neonatal death

The realities of being a parent :
Feeding and caring for the baby
Emotions and relationships in early parenthood

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Unplanned pregnancy after graduating from university. Supported by partner but felt a lack of institutional support for young, unmarried women. Looking forward to balancing motherhood with a career.

Pregnancy & children >> Pregnancy >> Age 25-30 >> Interview 10 >> It was easier to give up smoking when she became pregnant, and she has not started smoking again.

Unplanned but otherwise straightforward pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia and induction. Difficult labour without pain relief. Episiotomy.

Pregnancy & children >> Pregnancy >> Age 25-30 >> Interview 20 >> She noticed changes in her breasts in early pregnancy, and things began to taste strange. At first it felt like pre-menstrual symptoms which then disa

Single mother. First pregnancy miscarried. Second pregnancy was normal and straightforward. She planned to have a natural birth, but after a long labour chose to have a caesarean.

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