A Birth Story Part 5 – The Day We Met You
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 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
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 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?
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]had 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
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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This time last year
I’m afraid that the ‘This time last year’s in the lead up to Arlo’s birth have started already. This uncharacteristic but wonderful October heatwave has set me off on a…
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