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your guide to pregnancy, labour and birth

My pregnancy calendar

Our week-by-week pregnancy calendar charts exactly how you and your growing baby are changing, and gives handy tips to guide you through all the stages of pregnancy.

When am I due?

Convinced your missed period was one of the early signs of pregnancy? Try our easy-to-use due date calculator to work out when your baby’s due

Nutrition and health

Practical health advice including eating for a healthy pregnancy, foods to avoid, supplements, putting on weight, safe exercise, smoking and drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

Common health worries

Get advice about health worries throughout all the stages of pregnancy, including morning sickness, pregnancy pains, spotting, sore breasts and tiredness.

Labour & birth

We’ve got lots of advice to help you with every aspect of preparing for labour, from writing your birth plan and packing your hospital bag to recognising the first signs of labour and your pain relief options.

Practical info and advice

Find answers to your practical pregnancy questions about scans and tests, maternity rights, travelling, antenatal classes, preparing your home and much more!

Your emotions and relationships

Advice about unexpected pregnancy blues, mood swings and how you can involve your partner in your pregnancy.

Conception & the signs of pregnancy

Tips for conceiving a baby, including information about nutrition, ovulation and a guide to the early signs of pregnancy.

Closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics

The closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games began in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in north Beijing at 8 p.m. sharp on Sunday.

Hu, Rogge attend Olympics closing ceremony

President Hu and IOC President Jacques Rogge were ushered into the Presidential Box on the VIP stand of the National Stadium in Beijing Sunday night.

Iran is ready to restart its negotiations with the European Union (EU) over its nuclear enrichment program, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Tuesday.

"I would like to announce our readiness to restart immediately the negotiations with the EU 3 (Britain, France and Germany) to resolve the issue," Mottaki said.

Mottaki made the remarks at a news conference after the conclusion of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Coordinating Bureau (NAM-CoB) Ministerial Meeting in the Malaysian administrative center of Putrajaya.

Iran will respond to the call of the NAM and will resume negotiations on its nuclear enrichment program with other parties "without any preconditions", Mottaki told reporters.

Earlier, the NAM ministerial meeting released a statement, encouraging Iran to "urgently continue to cooperate actively and fully with the IAEA" in order to resolve the outstanding issue.

When asked whether Iran will resume direct talks with the United States, Mottaki attributed to the suspension to latter's "bad temperament"

"Iran might resume the direct talks over its nuclear program if Washington changed its behavior," said Mottaki.

Iran is a member country of the 45-year-old movement, which includes 116 members of the worldwide. Enditem

President Bush , left, listens as Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., who is Bush's choice to replace outgoing Treasury Secretary John Snow , speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House Tuesday, May 30, 2006 in Washington.

Clinton to release delegates to Obama (AP)

AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, hoping to unite the Democratic Party and cement her future in it, will gather her hard-won primary delegates Wednesday at a reception where she is expected to formally release them to Barack Obama.

Ready for the weekend
Young residents of Phnom Penh take advantage of a break in the rain and the last light of the day to play a game of badminton in Hun Sen Park, in front of the Independence Monument.


Election claims to be heard

SAM Rainsy Party officials said Thursday they doubted their election complaints would get a fair review as the Constitutional Council continued to examine the opposition's allegations of voter fraud

Kuwait to loan $546m for infrastructure

THE oil-rich gulf state of Kuwait on Thursday announced it would give Cambodia in excess of US$546 million in soft loans for an array of infrastructure projects, primarily in the agricultural sector

When roads become rivers

Shoddy construction means even Phnom Penh's newest roads flood, with excess water damaging road surfaces and making them

Prosecutors appeal Duch indictment

KHMER Rouge tribunal prosecutors are to appeal the indictment of S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, who stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying the court order did not repres

Trash pickers to get land in Kandal

Municipal authorities say they plan to build a new community for scavengers who will find themselves homeless after authorities close the Stung Meanchey dump at the end of the year

Brown plant hoppers spell ruin for rural rice paddies

A spike in the pest's numbers have caused devastation to farmers' crops in three provinces that border Vietnam.
BROWN plant hoppers are wreaking havoc across Cambodia's southeast as chemical fertilisers have nearly obliterated the insects' natural predators, allowing the population to expand.

Cambodia's emerging 'brain drain'

Young Cambodians from the provinces are flocking to Phnom Penh in increasing numbers to attend university in the capital, but the move is taking the best minds from the countryside
A MASS exodus of young people from the provinces is under way.
This is not the rural poor, flocking to staff the Kingdom's booming garment industry or find informal work on the fringes of the country's recent impressive economic growth. This is the rural middle class - young, ambitious Cambodians who are coming to Phnom Penh in search of a degree and a job.