Healthy Eating in Pregnancy
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Written by Sarah Barlow
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 A well balanced diet will give you and your baby the essential ingredients to have a happy and healthy pregnancy. Sometimes it can be a little confusing for expectant mums to know what to eat. So here is a simple guide.Vitamins and Minerals
Make sure that you eat your five portions of fruit or vegetables a
day. This will help ensure that you have enough vitamins and minerals
to feed your growing baby. At the start of pregnancy it is recommended
that you have extra folic acid to help prevent neural tube defects such
as spina bifida.
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Written by Sharon Watson
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 Why is it that we spend months encouraging our babies to walk, then, when they do master the art, we spend more time trying to stop them running riot? Parents of non-mobile babies have no idea how lucky they are – especially when the weather is bad outside. The winter months, and a fair chunk of spring and autumn as well – pose
a real challenge for parents of little dynamos. Where can we take our
kids to entertain them, let them run free and, let’s admit it, tire
them out?
The obvious venues – parks, beaches and outdoor play areas – can
lose a lot of appeal when the rain is tipping down, it’s minus five
degrees outside and it’s getting dark by teatime
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Advice from the tooth fairy
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Written by Jane Freeman
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 Healthy
teeth are essential to a healthy childhood. Not only do teeth help
children to chew, speak and smile but they also support the upper and
lower jaws. Our reporter Jane Freemen has been talking to Eva Tanner
and Dr Visser from Plewman House Kids Clinic to find out more.A baby
can begin strengthening the muscles surrounding his or her jaw
from as early as breastfeeding. The motion your baby uses if breastfed
helps to strengthen the muscles that shape their face. The support your
baby’s teeth provide to their jaws will help form their facial profile,
shape and function.
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Written by Sharon Watson
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 “Yes they’re cute now but wait till they hit the Terrible Twos, then you’ll know what parenting is all about”How many new parents have heard a version of the above? If I’d
believed all I’d been told and read about the Terrible Twos, when my
baby was born, I could be forgiven for thinking I’d given birth to the
children from the Omen and the Exorcist rolled into one.It’s like a ticking clock: your cute baby, who is no trouble at all,
overnight will turn into a screeching, tantrum-throwing monster, who
won’t take “no” for an answer and will constantly show you up in
public. But I am willing to stick my neck out here and say once and for
all: the Terrible Twos don’t exist – or at least they don’t have to.
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Written by Helen Holmes
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 Where are you planning to give birth? Home, Hospital or a Local birth centre? The place that you choose could make a big difference to the experience that you have. Helen Holmes looks into the options available to Hampshire parents. Once upon a time giving birth was something that women would do at
home, maybe with the help of a midwife, maybe not, and if there were
complications then the doctor would only be called if they could afford
his fees. With the introduction of the NHS and free healthcare for all,
birth became something that was brought within the medical
establishment, and most pregnant mothers today will themselves have
been born in a hospital.
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Sons and daughters of the earth
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Written by Lawerence McNeela
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 Lawerence McNeela shares his secrets on the best way to make seedlings grow into strong, healthy stock! Summer is here, and hopefully that means plenty of warm sunshine to
ripen the fruits and vegetables growing in our gardens and allotments. Nothing beats the taste of our own freshly-picked organic
produce and it is during these salad days of June, July and August that
we gardeners can sit back and enjoy the rewards of our hard work.
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