Prepare To Be Shocked, Reduced To Tears Yet Amazed & Inspired
To make sense of this story I will first give you a little background on my previous labours. My first baby was born ten weeks early as I was very ill and underweight, I had gas and air, pethidine, an epidural and forceps were used. My son was in the special care baby unit for [...]
On the Wednesday, I didn’t feel my son move that much defiantly less than 10 times. I waited till my partner came home from work and told him, he suggested drinking some juice, going on my exercise ball, walking up and down the stairs and nothing worked. I knew there was something wrong, I [...]
What is a Midwife? A midwife is a female or a male, but is often female, that is a medical professional hired by the mother-to-be to help her throughout the pregnancy and to help with the delivery of the baby. A midwife provides care to women during pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and may [...]
This post is an anonymous guest post After I gave birth to my daughter my partner told me that it was like I was giving birth to a bubble, he though it was my insides and told me it scared him, which to be fair he must have been pooping in his pants as [...]
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 [...]
Thought I’d send you a blog as such re my experience of midwives from the start of my pregnancy to the end and why I think there should be more support for mums. I would like to stay unknown please. When I first found out I was pregnant I went to my GP surgery and [...]
It was 2 days before my due date, it all started as I went for my final antenatal check up. I started having the odd twinges and really had high blood pressure. They decided to take me to the ward untill my blood pressure came down, by the evening it had so they sent me [...]
I just read a blog post about a lovely lady and her equally lovely husband who decided to make a garlic and rosemary pate out of the placenta of their first born. Now apparently her husband is a chef, so perhaps he has some tricks up his sleeve to make it palatable but I [...]
I had an elective c-section 3 years ago. not because I’m too posh to push, or because I’I lazy nor was it because I didn’t want down there ruined. Its because it was MY choice. I had to have check ups through out my pregnancy due to previous losses. At 32weeks a scan revealed that [...]
It’s mid August, I’m 18 and I find out I’m pregnant. I’m so excited and nervous but take another test just to be sure. The sickness, the tiredness and the appointments start. I get bored easily but know it’s for the best .I go for my first scan then tell everybody I’m expecting and they [...]
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