Most women have a straightforward pregnancy and labour, and 8 out of 10 women give birth vaginally. Whilst some people know they want to use all available pain relief from the minute they find out that they are pregnant whilst it is becoming more common for women to chose a natural child birth. Once you’ve [...]
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I have been coming across the term ‘hypnobirthing’ more and more frequently, and curiosity finally got the better of me so I’ve had a look into it to learn more about it. Hypnobirthing is not what it sounds – no-one stands over you with a swinging pocket watch so you can give birth while mimicking [...]
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After my last post about bleeding in pregnancy I decided to highlight some other issues that may occur in pregnancy, and would need to be checked out by your Doctor/Midwife. Vaginal Bleeding or spotting. While spotting is a fairly common experience during the early stages of pregnancy, it can defiantly leave you feeling a little [...]
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Aside from all the usual pregnancy worries, I had additional worries in my second pregnancy. Towards the end of my third trimester, the realisation that this new child would soon be in our lives, started to scare the hell of me. I worried that my daughter wouldn’t like her little brother. I had a greater [...]
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Whilst being pregnant I was faced with an overwhelming amount of information to process due to reading so many books and magazines. I found myself getting very annoyed by some of the things I was reading (and stupidly this did not stop me from doing so). While it’s great to have some idea of what [...]
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