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Would You Be Happy With A Male Midwife? I was watching a convocation a few days ago about the care received during labour and one mum was speaking out about how great her midwife was and that the fact he was a man puzzled a few mums. I admit I have yet to see a [...]
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 [...]
I wrote a guest post about being pregnant and having severe synthesis pubis disorder, but I never followed up my story, so here it is. I was induced 2 weeks early because I had been put in a wheel chair. I was on a morphine patch, which Lilli became addicted to. They told me I’d [...]
Like any preganant woman, I was all prepared. I had endless bags of clothes, some new, some second hand, hundreds of nappies in and a cupboard full of wipes. I had planned to breastfeed my son but had bottles and a microwave steraliser ready for when I wanted to express milk.
Being pregnant doesn’t come easily! It’s like an open invitation for people to just walk up to me and molest my stomach asking “Why isn’t she kicking?” or “how far along are you?”.
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 [...]
I lay in bed and can’t move. I won’t move because I can feel and see my unborn baby kicking and it feels good. Life seems perfect; it is perfect! I check my phone and notice I have received two new messages. I put my phone back down thinking to myself, “it’s probably only facebook.” I go [...]
I gave birth to my son on 5th February 2010 in Stirling Royal. I understand you may find it bizarre I have waited this long to complain but I was upset and angry at what happened. On Monday 1st February I was in quite a bit of pain in my back, bottom and legs. On the [...]
I awoke at 1 am after my waters started leaking, I had very mild contractions, which with in 30mins became strong and quick. I went straight to hospital, I was left waiting to be assessed for what seamed like a life time. With my contractions one on top of the other I was in agony. However, [...]
I was 37 weeks pregnant with my 2nd successful pregnancy (after 4 miscarriages in 4years), and once again I was admitted to hospital following a routine midwife check up. Once again I was not happy with the check up my midwife did, and once again the hospital were waiting for me to pee so they [...]
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 [...]
Finding out I was pregnant was the happiest day of my life. Little did I know it would change my life forever, in more ways than just being a mother. I went to the midwife after having it confirmed 7 times that I was pregnant (I didn’t believe them!), and she arranged my scan. My weight [...]
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 was 17 when I fell pregnant with my first child. I wasnt in a good relationship, but I refused to abort my unborn child. I was at college studying BTEC level 2 health and social care. Before I had even missed my peroid, I was having signs of pregnancy, so I spoke to my [...]
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 [...]
All the way through my pregnancy with my daughter breastfeeding was something I wanted to do for her. Both myself & my partner read through all the leaflets & watched the DVD’s provided by the midwife and was told my every health care proffesional it was easy to do, apart from 1 – a [...]
I have been granted full permission to post this story on behalf of a mum who wanted to share her own experiences. At 36 weeks pregnant I woke up to a little gush of water. The water was green in colour so I instantly knew it contained meconium, thinking that my baby had pooped [...]
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