Flo.health - #1 mobile product for women’s health • 22nd January 2023

Third-trimester pregnancy symptoms: What to expect - Flo

Understandably, with labor on the horizon, you might be more aware of every new twinge, pain, and rumble. It can be useful to read up on some of the that you might expect.

Flo.health - #1 mobile product for women’s health • 22nd January 2023

Second-trimester pregnancy symptoms: What to expect - Flo

You might be curious as to why you feel so different from your first to your second trimester. So let’s run through some of the most common second-trimester pregnancy symptoms and understand why they can happen.

Flo.health - #1 mobile product for women’s health • 22nd January 2023

First-trimester pregnancy symptoms: What to expect - Flo

Pregnancy symptoms can really vary from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy. There’s no way you can predict how your first trimester will leave you feeling.

Flo.health - #1 mobile product for women’s health • 16th January 2023

Implantation bleeding vs. period bleeding: The differences - Flo

You’ve spotted blood in your underwear, but is it implantation bleeding or your normal monthly period? While these types of bleeding are similar, there are a few differences to look out for, as a doctor explains.

Vice • 28th October 2022

Nostalgic Photos of Black British Music Scenes Over the Ages

In the endlessly reverberating words of Birdman, when you speak about Eddie Otchere you better put some respeck on his name.

Vice • 17th October 2022

What It Feels Like to Relearn Your Own Black British History

Most of us go to school on autopilot: attending lessons, polishing off assignments and sitting exams till we’re no longer obliged to. You implicitly trust the curriculum – it’s school, right? – and what your teachers drip feed into your malleable little mind.

Women's Health • 14th October 2022

Tokophobia: inside the extreme fear of childbirth we need to talk about

If, like most of the nation, your first exposure to childbirth looked like watching a woman scream in agony while clad in a pale blue hospital gown during a scene of Casualty, you'll understand a fear of labour.

HuffPost UK • 1st October 2022

The ‘Black Tax’ Is Bulldozing Our Finances

The risk of financial insecurity is looming over huge swathes of the nation, with around 46 million people reporting that their outgoings increased between March and June this year. The surging prices of fuel, food and energy mean people are spending less on non-essentials.

Metro • 30th September 2022

Why aren't ethnic minority women getting their smear tests?

If the thought of a complete stranger perched between your legs while using a brush to collect a sample of cells from your cervix doesn’t fill you with joy, you’re not alone.

Flo.health • 11th June 2022

What is co-sleeping: Positions for co-sleeping

Co-sleeping or sharing a bed with your baby has long split opinions. Below we explain what co-sleeping is, how to co-sleep more safely, and what comfortable co-sleeping positions you can try.

Women's Health • 2nd June 2022

'Giving birth during the pandemic left me with postnatal PTSD'

It’s the middle of the night and Karen is sitting in bed, bolt upright. Her heart is pounding as she struggles to get air looping in and out of her lungs. Her clothes, damp with sweat, cling to her body. In the darkness, she looks to her right, catching sight of her baby girl who is sound asleep.

Women's Health • 8th March 2022

Why Bridging the Gender Health Gap Requires an Intersectional Approach + The Women Doing Their Bit

Cast your mind back 100, even 50 years ago, and it’s easy to frame the trajectory of women’s health and wellbeing in the UK as an upward, positive one. But we’ve also got a gender health gap so cavernous that it’s the largest in the G20. (You know, the 20 countries with the world's biggest economies.)

Stylist • 24th February 2022

“If the pain was that bad you’d be screaming”: what women of colour go through when they’re sick

Last week the NHS Race and Health Observatory published its Ethnic Inequalities In Healthcare review. Created in 2020 when it emerged that a disproportionate number of people from ethnic minority groups were dying because of coronavirus, the observatory’s findings are damning.

Black Ballad • 18th January 2022

“Wokefishing” Doesn’t Stop At Dating, Employers Are Doing It Too

During the summer of 2020, amid the flurry of news coverage and debates surrounding the pandemic, lockdowns and race relations, both on home soil and internationally, a new term for a rising dating trend was brought to the fore. “What is wokefishing?”

Refinery29 • 27th October 2021

Black Introverts On Navigating The UK Workplace

Expanding on this notion during her Ted Talk, The Power of Introverts , Sarah Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking , explains that introversion is “different from being shy.

Flo.health - #1 mobile product for women’s health • 21st December 2019

Spotting during pregnancy: When to see a doctor - Flo

It’s normal to worry about spotting during pregnancy, but it happens in up to a quarter of pregnancies and doesn’t always mean anything bad. Here, a doctor explains what spotting can mean and when to seek medical advice.

Flo.health • 28th April 2019

Abnormal Pap smear: What happens next?

Receiving an abnormal Pap smear result can be scary, but it’s also very common and often nothing to worry about. Here, an OB-GYN explains how common abnormal Pap smears are, what causes them, and what happens next.

PHOENIX Magazine • 1st March 2018

Fifty Shades Of Beige: Exactly How Diverse Is The Beauty Industry’s Palette?

In the last quarter of 2017 there were some big diversity wins within the world of makeup. Rihanna sent fans into a frenzy with the launch of her now award-winning Fenty Beauty range, Cover FX hammered home the message that #NudeIsNotBeige, and it was announced that Insecure writer and actress Issa Rae had been welcomed into the CoverGirl family.

Broadly • 30th November 2017

The Black Entrepreneurs of the Booming Natural Hair Movement

Once upon a time, a black woman’s only option for wigs were silky straight weaves that mimicked European hair. But as the booming natural hair movement sees more women trading in chemical relaxers in favor of their own hair texture, kinky and coily hair extensions have exploded onto the market.

Refinery29 • 12th October 2017

All Work, No Play? Beat Your Work Addiction Before It Beats You

Even though it's been likened to some serious forms of addiction, workaholism is often a glamorised and celebrated part of our culture. People proudly wear the ‘workaholic’ title like a badge of honour without stopping to consider the adverse effects that inevitably come with an unhealthy attachment to work.