Birth Story; Intrauterine growth restriction; She had to be born early

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    I had a terrible pregnancy as I suffered from hypermesis gravidum, which isa severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. I also had bleeding from 6 weeks up until I was 12 weeks pregnant.I ended up having 15 scans in total. At 34 weeks + 2 days they broke the news to [...]

Birth Story; 15 Years Old With A 74 Hour Labour

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I had a fairly good pregnancy, morning sickness started at 7 weeks so in April 2008 I decided to take a test, it was positive. I was a shocked 15 year old but I was happy. He wasn’t planned but the thought of having an abortion or giving him up never came to my mind. [...]

I didn’t want to do a poo: A Birth Story

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A mum shares her birth story with you: I was 38 weeks pregnant, I starting to feel really wet down below with a few niggling pains but nothing major apart from one full blown contraction then nothing. I phoned my mum who took me out for lunch then onto my routine midwife appointment. I went [...]