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I found out I was pregnant a week after my 21st birthday, at first I panicked like mad. I had a 3 day bender for my 21st, not to Christmas and New Year were 2 weeks before and all the staff party’s where I had consumed a lot of alcohol in those first 7/8weeks I [...]
My story begins in December 2009 when I found out I was pregnant, I was only 17 years old, I met a fantastic bloke and within months we were expecting our first child. My pregnancy was straight forward with no serious complications only the constant water infections and being anaemic. My due date was originally [...]
A mum shares her birth story – Emma Laker Christopher William - born 10.5.08 On the 9th may 2008 already nine days over due, I was living in a hostel with my fiance we were sat in the garden with everyone else who lived there having a party with a delicious indian take away it was a [...]
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 [...]
I am terrified of the thought of a cesarean section, something about being cut open and a baby being removed from your insides scares me. It seems like something out of alien and although this operation (as hey come on that’s what it is is), is what I have feared most during my 6 pregnancies.
Increasing numbers of parents are considering having older children be present for the birth of a new sibling. Could this be a wonderful idea, that will allow siblings to bond more easily, or is childbirth a scary and private event that is not suitable for kids at all? Opinions are, predictably, divided on this. Many [...]
While browsing breastfeeding forums for news or discussions to share I came across a rather disturbing question: Are birthing and breastfeeding sexual?
I went into labour at 5am on the Wednesday morning and was told I was 2cm and to go home and take paracetamol and have a bath (like that does anything!) By the Thursday night I was sure that this was it, I couldn’t speak during a contraction and my mum said it looked like [...]
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