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Breech In Labour Caesarean Birth
The decision to move from home birth to positive induction at Peterborough City Hospital meant that Sophie and her partner were able to share a magical waterbirth together.
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Positive Home Birth Turned Premature Birth
The decision to move from home birth to positive induction at Peterborough City Hospital meant that Sophie and her partner were able to share a magical waterbirth together.
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Home Birth Support Group UK
I have with a friend, set up the Home Birth Support Group UK on Facebook. It is a busy, lively group for anyone who has had, or is interested in having a home birth. All of our members births are very important to us. The group is for women planning Read more…
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The Amazing Home Birth of Lawrence – 10 pound 4 ounces.
This is a guest blog post from Katy Gearing from our Home Birth Support Group UK. Katy runs Jenni Bean Sling Consultancy CIC and the Thame Sling and Nappy Library. It is the story of her home birth with her predicted ENORMOUS baby and possible gestational diabetes. Birth story of Read more…
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Life With Lois – Positive About Downs Syndrome
Many thanks to Therese for sharing her conception, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and life story with her beautiful daughter Lois. At the time I discovered my pregnancy, I had just turned 42 although I felt I was 25 still, I had a 13 year old daughter from a previous marriage, a Read more…
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All About Placentas
When should I store my placenta, can I encapsulate it if ………, what else can I do with it.
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Feeding on the Floor
Feeding on the Floor Outside Door 3 of Harrods to be Precise. Like a vagrant, people walked past me and stepped over me without a second glance, me and my invisible child, the 2 doormen there blindly refused to acknowledge my existence. But “Oh, the shoes!”. It an was an Read more…
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An overnight guest of the most lovely variety – wet nursing and tandem feeding
These photos popped up on my newsfeed this week and brought back some lovely memories which I thought I would share. I have discussed in the past, would I feed another mothers baby, yes I thought. On this particular day, I got to my phone to missed calls from a Read more…
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The Beautiful Home Birth With Gestational Diabetes of Regina Yujia Bai
This is a guest blog post from Regina Yujia Bai. It tells the story of her beautiful home birth after a diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes and of tandem nursing her new born and toddler. It is very unusual to hear Home Birth and Gestation Diabetes in the same sentence, so Read more…
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A Doula’s Journey 2017
Thank you from this Doula – 2017 has been an incredible ride. I began 2017 intending to take a break – being on call 24/7 for up to 5 weeks at a time is an intense commitment, it is hard on you, on your family and also on your extended Read more…