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Zoe APUK

Jan 25
3 min

Gestational Diabetes

Katie shares her experience of GD during her pregnancy. Trigger warnings: needles, hospital visits, blood mention, internalised fatphobia.

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Personal Account: Anxiety in the Third Trimester

Esther Whitney

Apr 4, 2022
1 min

Personal Account: Anxiety in the Third Trimester

Account and artwork by Esther Whitney (aka Doctor Doom) In the third trimester, I became all-consumed by anxiety about becoming a mother....

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Ruth Jenks

Jan 23, 2021
3 min

Know Your Birth Rights

[Video/audio reading available soon] Having knowledge about pregnancy and birth is important for reducing anxiety and becoming your own...

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Ruth Jenks

Jan 15, 2021
4 min

The First Trimester of Pregnancy

The first 12 weeks of pregnancy (counting from the first day of the last menstrual cycle) is called the first-trimester.

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