Expectations of Antenatal Education
As an antenatal Hypnobirthing teacher and postnatal trauma practitioner, one of the things I notice is that a lot rests on antenatal...
Antenatal Expectations
This is the 2nd in a 3 part series from Make Birth Better Network member Sakina Ballard. Here, Sakina talks about how antenatal...
Expectations of Birth
If you were planning to run the Marathon, you would start by applying for a place the usual way You might be lucky and get one straight...
The Pitfalls of 'Going with the Flow' in Birth
This is a blog post copied with permission from the Birth Trauma Truths website. Debby Gould and Melissa Bruijn are founders of...
A Positive First Birth
Before I was pregnant I had always assumed that I would want to give birth in a hospital with as much medical assistance and pain relief...
Birth preferences
I think one of the things that really helped me was to think of my birth plan as birth preferences instead. This made it feel like it was...
Failed expectations
I was 31 and am quite short with a petite frame. Pretty uneventful pregnancy apart from having SPD. A note of it was made on my record...
The power of broken expectations
I was the fainter at school. Injections, check. Biology lessons, check. Always flat on my face, and always resulting in chipping my front...
No one was there
Everyone said I'd be early. Especially people with absolutely no medical/obstetrics experience. By the time I got to 10 days passed my...
Stretched midwives
My eldest was born via emergency c-section. My youngest was born via elective c section which unfortunately then turned into an emergency...
