On Monday 16th March, pregnant women were officially encompassed in a “vulnerable group” by the chief medical officer.

Daily movement is one of the most important things we can do to keep ourselves physically and mentally strong, and this especially rings true when we become a mother.

Bouncing back to your pre-pregnancy body may be your one wish post the birth. But while you may think celebrities do it magically, the truth is completely different.

Award-winning blogger and mum, Ruth Crilly, aka A Model Recommends, is here to help sleep deprived mums nationwide with her revolutionary new app The Night Feed. 

As mums we are surrounded with postpartum information and advice, and it can be so confusing to know what is actually true!

With figures suggesting that perinatal anxiety is an even bigger problem than postnatal depression, we sat down with TV presenter, counsellor and best-selling author of ‘Breaking Mad’, Anna Williamson, to get her top tips on managing anxiety and wellbeing in pregnancy and beyond. 

A long standing staple in Asian skin care, sheet masks are having somewhat of an ‘Insta mum’ moment with everyone from Victoria Beckham to Kim Kardashian-West posting snaps in full sheet mask glory.

It was around the 3 month mark following the birth of my second child, that it became apparent my anxieties had gone way beyond the levels of normal.

Ensuring you get enough vitamins and minerals is always a good idea, and never more so than during pregnancy. 

There’s nothing we detest more than ‘ugly mum’ accessories.

Ever since it first opened it’s doors way back 1998 (and well before HIIT become the no.1 buzz word on every fitness fanatics lips), Barry’s Bootcamp has set the standard for hard core, high intensity, bootcamp style workouts. 

Like most newborns, when my darling son came in to this world he did little more than eat, sleep and cry. Eating and crying were pretty much constants, sleep not so much.

Pregnancy and tired, swollen legs seem to be a package deal.

Why do we think nothing about popping to the gym to exercise the muscles in our legs, arms and core, but the mere mention of exercising our pelvic floor (perhaps the most important muscles us woman should exercise) and we flush with embarrassment?