A committee for the European Parliament is now backing the move to extend full-paid maternity leave to 20 weeks, where current legislation allows for only 14.
Currently women in the UK are entitled to one year off work, the first six weeks paid at 90% and then 33 weeks on Statutory Maternity Pay, with remainder being [...]
Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man who was first brought to our attention when it came to light that he was pregnant with his first child, is pregnant for third time.
Thomas is a transgender man and chose to become pregnant when he and his wife found out that she was infertile. He later gave birth to [...]
New figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have shown that schoolgirls as young as 10 are getting pregnant.
The stats show that since 2002 there have been 15 pregnancies to ten year olds and a staggering 39 to eleven years olds in England and Wales, and the chances are that these figures could be [...]
According to a recent article in the Daily Mail one in three new mums on maternity leave has harmed her chances of promotion, and this comes from research from the Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
The figures add up to 32% of women, who feel that on their return to work after maternity leave they hit [...]
Some pregnancy myths are well known and well documented while others may be slightly more obscure. One myth that I came across recently which I was previously unaware of is that you should sleep on your side during pregnancy.
The basis for this myth is, apparently, that if you lie on your back during pregnancy it [...]
Following on from my last post I thought that today I would expose a few more of the countless pregnancy myths surrounding those precious nine months.
The first myth I want to talk about is that, apparently, sickness is worse with girls! Well…..
This one is generally considered untrue, although there is some evidence that women who [...]
I thought that today for a bit of fun I would run through a few of these familiar pregnancy myths and expose them for what they are – old wives tales!
Myth One – Shape of bump determines sex of baby
Everyone knows this one and the story goes that if you are carrying low then it [...]
Ok, so what I’m about to wite about is not ground breaking or earth shattering but it certainly tickled my funny bone!
According to an article in The Telegraph a new hospital has opened in Taiwan which is completely ‘Hello Kitty’ themed, with the aim of easing the stress of childbirth with images of the cartoon [...]
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking how Funkybump began and what the history behind it is so I thought I’d give a run down of our humble beginnings today.
In 2004 my husband and I were working for a major telecommunications company, me in telesales (sorry to anyone I plagued with sales calls) [...]
There seems to be quite a bit of confusion over whether Blooming Marvellous is in administration or not so I have taken the following statement directly from the front page of their website and I hope it goes some way to clear the issue up;
‘The affairs, business and assets of Blooming Marvellous Limited and The [...]
