I have set up a donation based Freebirth and Emergency Childbirth Support Group UK. I set it up in response to the number of freebirth queries I have had, it also supports women who want to know what to do if they birth their babies at home, a birth before Read more…
More and more I find myself wondering what has happened to kindness, loving support and doulaing the doula, in the birth world. I see angry page, angry post, angry blog, after angry page, angry post, angry blog and more and more this anger is beginning to be aimed at each Read more…
The potential for a bleed or haemorrhage is something we are asked about a lot in our Home Birth Support Group UK. When this birth story, which took place at home and was followed by a significant bleed and transfer in hospital, was posted I asked if I could share Read more…
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.
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.
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.
This was supposed to be a light hearted look at the reasons women are given not to homebirth – instead it paints a very sad, emotive, coercive picture in the words of the women these things were said to.
If you need intervention at home, that necessitates transfer, you can be sure you would have needed that intervention if you had been in hospital for the whole birth.
These birth stories are so important to share. Induction is not always positive and that is because it comes from a lack of informed consent. Cara* had the support of our Home Birth Support Group UK and her doula and knew and understood the induction process and her rights to informed choice and to wait. She also had the full support of her husband which is vital.Stories of empowered women and families, who have remained in control of their own births and made their own decisions carry such weight. This is the story of Cara’s* birth, not a medical procedure.
National and local birth pool and tens machine hire. I am thrilled to be a representative of the Birth Partnership – https://www.thebirthpartnership.co.uk/ a national birth pool hire company with local representatives. Supplying birth pool and tens machine hire throughout the UK, covering Wales, Scotland England and Northern Ireland. I can also Read more…