So after my first birth that left me with PTSD. I was 100% sure I was having a homebirth when I found out I was expecting baby 2. I swiftly got researching and planning and told my midwife at booking that I would be having a homebirth. No objections from her!
Fast forward to my 20 week scan. I was told I had vasa previa due to a bilobed placenta and velamentous cord insertion. This meant I had to have a caesarean birth. Or did I?
This is a lovely, reassuring guest blog post from one of the members of Home Birth Support Group UK around her change from planned home birth to positive hospital birth after a positive covid result. “I never got my home birth I wanted, but I had a positive experience at hospital. This was due to waiting for covid test results and as it turned out I was positive Second Time MumKnown boyDue date 23/10/20Born 24/10/20 Read more…
The home birth of Beauden, our rainbow baby after stillbirth and loss. Baby number 6.
I fully endorse that no-one needs to listen until that information is being passed on in a fully evidence based manner, giving the pros and cons of all suggested pathways as required by moral, ethical and legal standpoints.
Absolutely hilarious, raw, honest, home birth after caesarean blog from “the biggest wimp in the world”.
Top 6 tips on getting the birth you want and have the right to.
The healing home birth of Poppy Jayne after a previously traumatic induction.
Told by a doctor that my baby was 7lb 9oz at this stage and would be at high risk of shoulder dystocia by my due date. She said that babies put on at least a pound a week in the last few weeks so seemed to be suggesting my baby would around 11lb 9oz by 40 weeks.
: : Birth story of Jessie 💖Baby no1001/04/20207.27pm7lb 4ozBBA, HBAC, Grand Multip I’ve had 3 previous homebirths with babies 3, 4 and 9 so there was no doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t give birth at home this time either. (Baby number 9 Joey’s birth story can be read HERE). I’d declined consultant care again, as I just find them stressful and not relevant to me. I also declined a GTT (gestational diabetes test) Read more…
Samantha Gadsden, works as a national virtual doula, supporting in person across South Wales and the South West.
She walks with women on their journey's through life. She is a feminist, a birth educator and listener, a doula, a believer in and supporter of women and lives living just outside Caerphilly in the South Wales Valleys with her husband Eddie and her 3 younger children.