Maternity Notes

Packing Your Hospital Bag

As you can tell this blog is in no particular order and is quite random. So i’m moving on to packing your hospital back. They recommend that you have it packed from around 36 weeks – which will give you time to pack and unpack it hundreds of times when you think you have forgotten [...]

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Antenatal Notes (Part 2)

Are you ready for part 2? Well here goes…. Relation of PP to brim: - Your midwife will measure how much of your baby’s head/bottom can be felt above the brim of your pelvis as fifths: 5/5 means that the head is not engaged; 0/5 means that the head is fully engaged. Eng/E: Engaged - Head engaged. [...]

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Antenatal Notes (Part 1)

Antenatal notes can look like a foreign language and if you’re anything like me you’ll come home from your appointments and read them whilst self diagnosing yourself with allsorts!! So i’ve done a little research to find out what it all means. NAD/nil or a tick: No abnormality detected in urine sample. PGO: Protein, glucose, [...]

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