A Birth Story Part 5 – The Day We Met You
In the last part of my birth story, I was 5cms, and then all of a sudden, I was pushing. ———— What? No. I’m only 5cms. Why do I need…
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A Birth Story Part 4 – Having my waters broken
In the previous part of my birth story, I felt increasingly frustrated at the ‘illusion’ of birth choice when you are on an “intervention path”, and after a four day…
Do I Want To Have Another Home Birth?
Ihad a home birth with Rory. As far as labour goes, this couldn’t have been the better option for me. I was far more at ease than I was…
Welcoming Rory – a Home Birth
I wrote most of this a few days after giving birth, when it was 100% fresh in my mind. I’ve not really edited it, preferring to keep my birth stories…
Baby 2 is here!
On Wednesday at 6.55pm, after a ten hour labour, a 9lbs 4oz baby boy was born at home. I was 40 plus 3. Arlo, on your last day as my…
Pregnancy Lowdown – 35 Weeks
We’re approaching that time where everything becomes unknown. It could be two weeks from now, it could be another seven weeks (!) I have been trying to give vague…
On making the decision to have a home birth
Earlier in this pregnancy, I wrote that I was strongly considering a home birth but was still not completely sold on the idea. And Sam was definitely not sold…
On birth photography
Sam’s style of shooting is click-before-you-think, quantity over quality. His method is to fire away at lightening speed and hope that there will be one shot out of one hundred…
Twenty minutes. In a taxi – How you can help raise awareness for Save the Children in just 20 seconds.
That’s how long it took me to get to the labour ward where I would shortly give birth to Arlo. How I was going to get to the hospital was…