Prepare To Be Shocked, Reduced To Tears Yet Amazed & Inspired
This is hard for me to write but it’s something I want to share. It was the 12th of February 2011, I was 3 days overdue, I had a feeling I was going into labour back ache couldn’t settle ( my adopted mum who have now fell out with ad gone out but decided [...]
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 remember all to well the birthing plan/birth plan. That helpful useless part of your maternity notes. Oh how I enjoyed discussing all the options. I dreamed of a water birth and no pain relief on my 6th birth. I had kidney failure and was already in hospital for pain management when I went into [...]
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.
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