One honest guide to the last weeks of pregnancy, birth and the first two weeks at home, with companion guides to your appointments, tests and vaccines, and your baby's checks to age two. Read the guide in an evening. Keep the rest for every appointment.
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The guide, plus three companion guides
You are not short of information. You have forty tabs open, an app that says one thing and a mother-in-law who says another. What you are short of is one person who has done it and will tell you straight.
86%
of pregnant women say they feel overwhelmed by the amount of information out there. Tommy's survey
Nine chapters in the order you'll meet things, then six one-page checklists for the fridge. Every list has tick boxes. Every red flag is boxed and never softened.
The nesting-versus-terror swing, "am I ready", not feeling a bond yet, the 3am wide-awake club, and why plans changing is fine.
Essential, nice-to-have and skip-it for sleep, feeding, nappies, bathing, clothes, the car seat and your own recovery.
The night station, the changing station, the feeding chair, your recovery station in the bathroom, the freezer, the visitor rules.
Packed by 36 weeks, in labelled pouches so your partner can find things. What I never used and what I wish I'd packed. UK and US differences.
By appointment, from 28 weeks to overdue. Pain relief trade-offs, induction, C-sections, cord clamping, group B strep, the ward rules.
Braxton Hicks versus the real thing, the 5-1-1 rule, waters, early labour at home, and the full "call now" list.
Every route is a real birth. Stages, coping, gas and air to epidural, the golden hour, a C-section step by step, and if it doesn't go to plan.
Written to your partner, not about them. Before, during and after. What to do, what to carry, and what not to say.
What's normal for you and for baby, day by day. Bleeding, milk coming in, the second night, jaundice, nappy counts, and a letter for the fridge.
The chapters are the story and the lists. These are the reference you'll open at every appointment, organised by country for the UK, US, all of Europe and the Middle East.
Eight pages to keep on your phone for the room itself: labour and pushing positions you can actually do, what changes with an epidural, the birth routes, pain relief you can change your mind about, what happens if baby is breech, and why a plan may change.
With the Guide, the Bundle and the Partner PlaybookEvery appointment, blood test, scan and screening from booking to the postnatal review, with what each one is for and what happens if you decline. Vaccines in pregnancy including whooping cough and RSV, the supplements that matter, and your care timeline after the birth, including your emotional health. Country directory with official sources.
With the Guide and the BundleFrom the first hours to the two-year review: newborn injections and tests, why each vaccine is offered and when, the UK and US schedules and a card for every European and Middle Eastern country, check-ups and development reviews, vitamins and feeding to age two, and the signs that mean urgent care. Space for your baby's appointment notes.
With the BundleThe companions are reference editions compiled from WHO, NHS, CDC and national programmes, dated so you can see what was checked and when. They're for preparing questions; your own team's current plan always wins.
Chapter 8 is written to them. It tells them what to do before, during and after, what to pack for themselves, how to be your voice in the room, and the phrases that help and the ones that really don't. You don't have to explain any of it.
Real pages from the guide, not mock-ups. It's a 6 by 9 inch book, so it reads comfortably on a phone.
The first time, I had forty tabs open, three apps that disagreed with each other and a drawer full of tiny clothes I didn't need. I knew the name of every pushchair on the market and had no idea what a contraction would actually feel like, what to say to the midwife, or what my partner was supposed to do while it was all happening.
The second time was different. Not because it was easier, but because I knew what was coming. I knew what to pack, what I'd want at 3am on the ward, which of the things everyone told me to buy would sit in a cupboard, and what to ask at each appointment.
This is the version of me who had done it once, sitting on the end of your bed and telling you everything. It isn't a course and it isn't a textbook. It's one honest read, with lists you can tick and a chapter you can hand straight over.
I'm a mum, not a midwife. Everything in here is what I learned, what helped, and what the NHS, Tommy's, the Lullaby Trust and ACOG say. Where they and I differ, they win.
Alex
Pick what you need. Every option is a PDF you get straight away, and you keep it forever.
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If it doesn't help, email within 30 days and you'll get your money back. No questions, no forms. Prices in pounds. You'll get the UK edition: the same guide with your region's spelling, emergency numbers and helplines.
No. Alex is a mum, not a midwife or doctor. The guide is her experience plus what the NHS, Tommy's, NCT, the Lullaby Trust, ACOG and the AAP recommend, with sources listed at the back. Red flags are always "call now". Your own care team wins on anything specific to you.
Yes. Choose UK, Europe, US or Australia at the top of the page. The US edition uses US spelling and words (mom, diapers, crib, labor) and Fahrenheit. Every edition has its own help page with the right emergency number and local helplines. Where hospitals differ, such as what the ward provides or how group B strep is handled, the chapters explain both. Safe sleep and car seat rules are the same everywhere that matters.
It's all in there, without judgement. Chapter 7 walks through a planned C-section step by step and what an unplanned one is like, and Chapter 5 gives you the questions to ask about induction. Every route is treated as a real birth, because it is.
Yes. The Mother's Guide and the Baby Guide have the UK and US schedules in full and a card for every European and Middle Eastern country, with the official source for each so you can check the current version. They tell you what each test or vaccine is for and what to ask; your own midwife or doctor confirms the timing for you.
Alex wrote it after her second, and the "second time round" boxes are for exactly that. If it's been a few years, the safe sleep guidance, car seat rules and the partner chapter alone are worth the read.
You pay, and the PDF is emailed to you and available to download straight away. It's a 6 by 9 inch book, so the text is comfortable on a phone. Every checklist has tick boxes you can mark up in your PDF app, or print the one-page versions and use a pen.
Email within 30 days and you'll get a refund. No questions asked.
