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 support
I'm about to have a birth reflection appointment to find out why we had so little support during my labour. I suspect it was...
Preparing for a C section
I had an emergency C section and despite being prepped enough to put a c section part in my birth plan (just in case), I wasn't really...
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...
A Healing Second Birth
Thought it would be interesting to send my two birth stories as they are very different! My waters broke with my first baby at 35 weeks...
A Positive, difficult birth
The birth experience was epic, it didn't go exactly to plan but it was still incredible, so glad I did hypnobirthing! My waters broke...
'It seemed barbaric'
This is a traumatic story of loss. Please read with care. My first baby was stillborn at 39+2 in June 2015. We found out she had died and...
Time
Time. Everything felt so rushed. I saw 7 different midwives and it took hours to get pain relief. I think if midwives have the time to...
It left a few 'footprints'
Being given some effective local anaesthetic when my vaginal tear was stitched would have #madebirthbetter - that was with my first...11...
