Dear mums, if you’re anything like me you’ll never pass up an opportunity for free stuff! Bounty.com offers a bounty of FREE STUFF for mum and baby!

If you’ve been pregnant recently, you may remember receiving a bounty pack – perhaps at the hospital when your babs was born or even before that. Here’s the news: you are eligible for FIVE bounty packs with loads of free sample goodies in them.

The first is a Pregnancy Information Folder, then a Mum-To-Be pack, a Mum’s pack a Newborn pack and lastly a Family pack.

You should receive your packs from a Bounty Lady or health professional or you can collect them from Boots or Superdrug stores upon the presentation of a voucher code received in your first information pack.

The Bounty site explains how to claim packs and what to do if you did not receive yours.

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Losing those pounds left over from pregnancy can be a daunting task. Other than eating ‘right’ and engaging in simple activities like daily walks and 5-minute tummy crunches at home etc. you might feel that some social exercising or personal training is in order.

If so, pay a visit to Beezknees.co.uk – it’s all about prenatal and postnatal fitness and personal training. The site gives the low down on group classes and nutrition programmes. Meeting other mums who are also trying to keep healthy and shed a couple of pounds is an awesome way to help motivate fitness goals.

If you’d prefer to exercise in the comfort of your home (or garden), the prenatal and postnatal fitness site offers handy exercise tips – indoor and outdoor routines.

And for yoga enthusiasts; The Beez Knees fitness company and new Chiswick yoga studio, Yoga West have teamed up to develop an innovative prenatal and postnatal fitness programme combining cardiovascular training and yoga to help mums to be stay in shape.

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If you’re preggers and have decided to ditch caffeine or you’ve had your caffeine quota for the day but still need more tea to keep you sane, Mama Tea offers a caffeine free tea while pregnant range designed with mums-to-be in mind.

Mama Tea teas have been specifically blended to taste good by a Master Tea Blender and advised by a top Medical Herbalist. Rather than using a chemical process to remove the caffeine, the teas merely contain herbs that are caffeine-free.

All of the herbs used in the teas are totally safe to consume during pregnancy and whilst breastfeeding.

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First off, what is a Doula? I won’t assume you’re all knowing because I certainly wasn’t – I had never heard of such a thing until I was pregnant and a friend told me about her Doula mum.

So, in simple terms, a Doula is a birth coach; a non-medical labour assistant who provides support for a woman by encouraging her and explaining what’s going on in the delivery room.

My husband was my unofficial Doula, and he was totally awesome. Here’s a little FYI: Doula comes from a Greek word meaning ‘female servant or slave.’ My fabulous man certainly slaved to my every need and I love him all the more for it.

But back to business; why consider a professional Doula?

A recent survey carried out by Doula UK revealed that births with Doula support have more chance of successful breastfeeding and a lower chance of intervention during labour.

* 93 per cent of women interviewed attempted to breastfeed, with 70 per cent still exclusively breastfeeding after six weeks. (Compared to the latest stats from the Department of Health, where 74.1 per cent of new mums attempt breastfeeding with only 47 per cent still exclusively breastfeeding at six weeks.)

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Guess what ladies!? That horrid biological clock that ticks ever so loudly in the back of our minds, increasingly so with age, may hold no weight. It’s not yet entirely certain but research is promising.

In the latest breakthrough in fertility treatment, American scientists have used stem cells from human ovaries to produce lab-grown egg cells.

Women are born with a supply of egg cells that must last throughout life. But if these cells can be regenerated, then time is no issue. Our biological clocks will be rendered redundant.

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