We made it all the way to 40 weeks!!! It was the night before my 40 week appointment and I felt a huge movement in the night that woke me and took my breathe away. I’d felt something similar with my first birth the night I’d had my ECV to turn the baby head down so immediately I thought...

I woke around 3am with mild, period type 'pains' and knew this was it...my labour was starting! I called the hospital in the morning and they advised me to come straight in when the sensations became more intense - I'd had a relatively quick labour with my daughter and they were concerned my labour...

Settle in…it’s a long one! I was fortunate to have a pretty straightforward pregnancy and had always considered completing a hypnobirthing course. As a midwife, I have supported several women using hypnobirthing techniques for their own labours and had seen how effective it could be....

When we got pregnant I was so excited. We were very fortunate to fall pregnant quickly. However, I began to have a reoccurrence of my anxiety due to previous negative experience as a student midwife. I felt anxious at antenatal appointments and my heart rate would go through the roof.  This is...

Hi Shelley, thank you so much for your kind words. I think I must have manifested the homebirth because I was due to be induced on Saturday 4th. My goal was to have a spontaneous birth, I was advised by the midwife to book an induction on day 12 - I could refuse it if I wanted to. So I called up on...

So, baby Sam was born at 13:53 by elective c section on 11th Oct at 42+2. 4.93kg and 54cm long with a 38cm head circumference.  He'd measured 90th centile most of the pregnancy but this had jumped up to 97th on a scan at 40 weeks and suspected 4.2kg baby. The consultant offered IOL (induction...