My Husband Missed The Birth As Midwives Didn’t Listen To Me

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  Let me start by saying that I know some women will read this and think I had an easy time, it was an easy labour and birth, what made it a bad experience was the fact that no one listened to me.  I had an awful pregnancy, morning sickness, 2 bleeds( one at 23 [...]

Giving Birth With SPD

Woman in hospital bed giving birth

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 [...]

Living with Health Issues

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I wake up and look out the velux window. I wonder what time it is as I know yet again it’s the middle of the night, I turn to look at the alarm clock and it’s 2.30am, not again I think. I try to move but my sciatica makes my back and right leg freeze [...]

SPD During Pregnancy Caused Me Devastation

SPD during pregnancy

I first had SPD  during pregnancy with baby number two, it started with swelling in my hips and pain whilst walking at about 20 weeks. I was seen by a physio and given a giant tubie grip to wrap round my hips and prescribed Dyhydrocodine. I managed quite well on that and had no complications [...]