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Recovery after birth takes time. Yet for many women and birthing parents, structured healthcare support ends at six weeks. Our new research explores the gap between the care new mothers receive and the support they need, and why we're building Hesta differently. Pregnancy and birth are among the most significant physical and emotional transitions in a woman's life. During pregnancy, healthcare is structured around regular appointments, screening, monitoring and clear mileston

If you had gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy, you might have been told that it would resolve after birth. In lots of cases, that's true. However if you have GDM in pregnancy, you have up to a 10x fold risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes in later life, which is why it’s really important to have follow up One of the most important pieces of postnatal follow-up after you having GDM in pregnancy are some follow up blood tests. This test can either be a fasting glucose te

Somewhere between three and four months after birth, many mothers notice the same alarming thing: clumps of hair in the shower drain, on the pillow, in the hairbrush. For many, it feels sudden, and it can be genuinely distressing on top of everything else already changing. The most common cause: hormones During pregnancy, high oestrogen levels extend the growth phase of your hair, which is part of why pregnancy hair can often feel thicker and fuller than usual. After birth, o

Redness, a smell, a fever, blood clots: here's when "normal healing" becomes "get it checked" Recovering from birth involves a lot of healing at once. A caesarean scar. A perineal tear or episiotomy. The site where the placenta was attached inside your womb. Possibly a urinary catheter, or a bruise that's taking its time to fade. Most of this heals without anything going wrong. But it's not always obvious where "healing looks a bit dramatic" ends and "this needs looking at" b