These tips for recovery after perineal trauma have been gathered from other antenatal teachers, doulas and mums. Please click here to tweet this! FORCEPS/VENTOUSE DELIVERY Before you go into labour have a water bottle with a squirty “sport” top in your labour bag. Why? Read on. Also a pack of high fibre cereal and some [...] Read more »
Caesarean Birth Recovery Tips
These are some ideas on how to cope with your CAESAREAN BIRTH that I have borrowed from other NCT teachers and from women who have shared with me ideas which helped them. Take pain relief when you need it. Some mothers prefer to cope with smaller amounts during the day but take bigger doses at [...] Read more »
#inamayquote
For the past few weeks I have been tweeting a short daily quotation from one of Ina May Gaskin’s books. Today’s was “Remember you have a real, live baby in there. Sometimes it’s such an intense trip having a baby that you forget what it’s for” It’s from Spiritual Midwifery, and it’s one of a [...] Read more »
Childbirth as horror: Ten Twilight-Related Facts About Childbirth
I doubt I will be seeing the final film in the “Twilight” trilogy unless by accident. I didn’t see the other two. The relative hotness of R-Patz and Taylor Lautner does not fire me (though as the mother of two pallid West London schoolboys I feel a slight patriotic pride to see girls swooning over [...] Read more »
That moment when you feel you can’t go on…
With all my own labours there was a moment when I thought, What WAS I thinking? Why am I doing this? I want to stop! Now! I want to give up and start again tomorrow! Likewise virtually all my birth clients have had a “dark night of the soul” moment when they felt they could [...] Read more »
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