Best pregnancy books to discover all you need to know as a mum-to-be

When you’re pregnant, you’ll find out that everyone has an opinion on your pregnancy, your body and what kinds of advice you need to hear. So, you might want to turn to an expert to tell you all you need to know about pregnancy, labour and birth.

In the past, women would have lived in extended family groups where someone was always on hand to chat about pregnancy. These days, many of us have never lived with another pregnant woman in the house and haven’t much experience of babies either. Our relatives don’t always feel they can pass on their own experiences about this exciting time of your life, especially as the philosophy around what you should and shouldn’t do in pregnancy always seems to be changing.

You may turn to the internet to help you make sense of the changes to your body and how your baby is growing. But there’s nothing like a good book to help you pick up some much-needed knowledge and understand what’s going on inside you.

It can be dipped into anywhere you go: the commute, the bath, or scanned in odd moments while you’re relaxing.