The Real Reasons For Your Ultrasound Scans
Seeing your unborn baby on the screen is one of the most anticipated events during your pregnancy, especially for first-time parents. More than just to satisfy parents’ curiosity, these scans can also tell you a great deal about your bundle…
Pregnancy Superfood: Salmon
Being pregnant doesn’t equal to an indulgence-free, monotonous diet. With some creativity, your meals can be sumptuous yet healthy. This month, we feature the recipes for one of the pregnancy superfoods, salmon. Delectable Salmon Fresh, frozen, and canned salmon are…
Pregnancy Superfood: Sweet Potato
Sweet potato does not only make a great first food for your baby; it is also highly nutritious for mums-to-be. Nutritious Sweet Potato Sweet potatoes are tubers and different from potatoes, although they are distantly related. As a food source,…
12 ways to eat for two
Making a few simple changes to what you eat, instead of how much, helps you and baby get off to the healthiest start. Dietitian Catherine Kong shares how. Your Old Habit: Skipping your breakfast Switch To: Just a packet of…
Is it alright to tweet about the progress of your baby’s birth?
iPhones, Blackberrys and Androids. Times have changed where news sharing through social media is at our fingertips. Is it a step too far, or the perfect way to involve friends in your experience? NO It’s a private experience I wouldn’t…
What Makes An Ideal Birthing Environment?
With Caesarean sections on the rise, childbirth educator and lactation consultant Christine Choong talks about the contributing factors during labour that will encourage and lead to natural deliveries in hospitals. The key to a mother achieving a natural birth is…
Things You Wish You’d Known Before Trying To Conceive
“Creating a baby isn’t all about wham, bam, thank you ma’am, we’re having a baby in eight months.” If you are among those who couldn’t hit the jackpot after a few months of doing the horizontal dance, you probably wish…
Choosing The Sex Of Your Baby
Are you a mum to a brood of energetic boys, yearning for a break from all that testosterone? Or overwhelmed with pink ribbons, dresses and everything girlish, and secretly wishing for a baby boy? BabyTalk investigates the natural and high-tech…
Exercising During Pregnancy - Why Should You?
If you’re pregnant, this might seem to be the perfect time to sit back and relax owing to the fact that you’re carrying a baby. However, being too sedentary isn’t good for you either. Quite understandably, carrying that extra weight…
Getting around Morning Sickness
Morning sickness is the feeling of nausea that is usually experienced somewhere during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. This unpleasant feeling is often caused by hormonal changes in a pregnant woman’s body. Although not a serious issue, it can…
