By month four your hormones have, for the most part, settled into their new levels. You may start experiencing a feeling of butterflies or bubbles in your abdomen. This is known as quickening. These are the first fetal movements. How exciting! There is a real and noticeable...
Your body finally starts to settle and adjust to the influx of pregnancy hormones it has been dealing with. Nausea levels will start to decrease. However, moodiness and food aversions might continue. Your energy levels will start to return to normal. A glimmer of your...
As your pregnancy hormone levels continue to adjust nausea, vomiting and your sensitivity to specific foods will continue to increase. This is known by most people as the dreaded morning sickness. Fatigue and moodiness are likely to increase. This can leave you with lower energy...
The first month of your pregnancy is generally uneventful for most expecting mothers. Some women only know that they are pregnant once they have missed their period or after they have done a pregnancy test that is positive. For most women, the hormone hCG, which...
This Jackfruit and Guacamole Tacos recipe was made by Amy van der Merwe of AnEarthenLife.com. My mister and I were between things last year and we decided to go on a working holiday around Asia for a few months. We worked in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia where...
This Quick Apple and Blueberry Crumble was made by Amy van der Merwe of AnEarthenLife.com. Sadly I do not own an oven yet so I do all my cooking on the stove top and sometimes you just want a cooked dessert. This is a super quick and easy apple and...
We’d been hiking in soft-but-steady rain for seven hours when our veneers of positivity started to crack. Morale had been high within our group of 12 hikers when we set off from the main gate of Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve, but now in the mountains, amidst...
Currently approximately 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year to make mostly single-use plastic products such as bags, straws, bottles and packaging. Only nine percent of these plastics end up being recycled, most cannot be recycled at all. The majority of this ends...
This Ontbijtkoek: Spiced Breakfast Cake is taken from the book ‘Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics’ by Catherine Barnhoorn. Cake for breakfast? Why not?! It’s delicious and nutritious – and with all the spices it’s a warming, immune boosting answer to the eternal question “What’s...
Shannon Goodman from @JourneyToZero_ shares two recipes with us, made using the amazing vegan milker; The Chufamix. The Chufamix is one of Faithful’s newest exclusive shopping additions; have a look at the product here, but as well as Shannon’s Chufamix-Made Chocolate Granola, using leftover nut pulp. INGREDIENTS 2/3 cup almonds/cashews...