Your Pregnancy

GROWING CLOSER

BEFORE YOU WERE pregnant, you had no idea how a child “within” could consume you. For nine months, you and your baby are one – growing together and undergoing amazing changes. Your baby-to-be is your constant companion, not only in body, but also in thought.

This attachment does not only start at birth, but long before. There is so much you can do in order to prepare your baby for meeting you face to face.

A LIVING BEING

The bond between you and your baby starts the moment you know you’re pregnant. It continues when you feel the first stirrings of life inside you, and you realise there is something

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