National Homebirth Day

HOMEBIRTH SAFETY The biggest question for most people when thinking about home birth is ‘is it safe’? Generally birth is safe in this country, especially if you’re low-risk in pregnancy. For a first-time mother the chances of an adverse outcome (stillbirth, neonatal death and some severe conditions) is 9.3 in every 1000 when birthing at…

Birth Plans (and Flow Charts)

Crack open your coloured pens, your pretty notebook and your laptop and make a start on your birth plan! Laminating is entirely optional 😉 I’m still pretty furious that one of my clients this week was told she wasn’t allowed to write her birth plan yet. Errrr 🤨 <— my actual face. Birth plans aren’t something that you…

Due Dates in Pregnancy

Here I am, talking about dates again. This time not of the eating variety though 💁‍♀️ Pretty much as soon as you find out you're pregnant you're on google trying to work out when your baby will arrive (no judgement, been there 😉 ), this will be confirmed at your booking in appointment based on your last menstrual…

Home Births

It’s interesting that this blog post popped up this morning as I had a little chat with my current class about home births yesterday. Thanks to Chilled Mama for sharing so I can pass on and Live, Love & Birth for writing. The number one reason I hear about not wanting a home birth from those who…

Dates in Labour

When you're pregnant you (hopefully!) get given loads of information about things you can do or things that might be offered to you to help the baby on their way earthside.   But rarely do people get told about the humble date.   As well as being utterly yum, dates have special qualities which can…