This is an article that has been a long time coming. What does being a midwife mean to me? It seems obvious that I’d want to write about why I became a midwife and what doing this job for the [...]
Giving birth after a loss is a subject that’s very seldom spoken about. Whether you’ve experienced a miscarriage, a still birth or the loss of an infant, being pregnant after tragedy is often a [...]
What is a natural birth? A lot of women associate natural births with vaginal deliveries but there are actually two sorts of natural births. Physiological ones, where you give birth completely [...]
Your identity goes through a lot of changes in the 9 months it takes to grow a baby. Suddenly your life is in transition as you go from being simply ‘you’, to being an expectant mother. Pregnancy [...]
Managing labour pain gets a lot of attention in the antenatal classes and pregnancy textbooks but what about the pushing part? Often very little time is devoted to that last hurdle of childbirth [...]
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