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A Birth Story Part 5 – The Day We Met You

  • Posted on July 20, 2016May 15, 2017
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  • byChloe
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

  • Posted on July 19, 2016July 20, 2016
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  • byChloe
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…
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Do I Want To Have Another Home Birth?

  • Posted on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016
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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…
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Welcoming Rory – a Home Birth

  • Posted on June 12, 2013May 15, 2017
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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…
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Baby 2 is here!

  • Posted on May 27, 2013
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  • byChloe
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…
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Pregnancy Lowdown – 35 Weeks

  • Posted on April 16, 2013October 1, 2013
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  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…
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On making the decision to have a home birth

  • Posted on April 10, 2013October 1, 2013
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  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…
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On birth photography

  • Posted on February 19, 2013
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  • byChloe
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…
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Twenty minutes. In a taxi – How you can help raise awareness for Save the Children in just 20 seconds.

  • Posted on April 18, 2012November 17, 2015
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  • byChloe
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…
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When you can’t think of a baby name – Our experience

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  • Posted on November 20, 2016January 31, 2018
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A Birth Story Part 1 – Being diagnosed with Obstetric Cholestasis

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  • Posted on July 14, 2016April 1, 2019
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