NICE home birth guidelines, midwives and money.
If you’re a follower in any capacity you will know I had a home birth with number two. I’m not going to go into the experience you can read that here > homebirth what I want to talk about it how…
The Children's Air Ambulance
What is yellow and green and could save your newborn’s life? The Children’s Air Ambulance. Not much of a punch line, I know. The sentiment is however true. They have completed 58 patient and clinical team transfers since the team…
Third Birth – The one where I didn’t want to go to hospital.
If you have stuck with me through the pregnancy – most of you lovely people have – you will know that from week nine (yes, the book in) my Midwife had me down for a hospital birth. I had said…
Are we nearly there yet? No. Fuck off. (not a travel post).
You know when you’re the size of a house. You have a heavy vag, bum, hips, boob and belly. You are casually pottering about, doing your normal things as much as possible, counting down the days to the day the…
Expressing Colostrum & a letter to my boobies.
I mentioned a few times on twitter and in a previous post that we have been working on expressing colostrum before baby arrives. The deal is that three times a day I makes sure to hand express or gently pump…
Nearly birth time!
Well, I can’t believe it is coming around already. Just a few short and sweet weeks and we will have an extra addition. Not only that but we are moving house too! I keep running the birth of Eldest around…
Pregnancy dreams
It’s a strange old thing when I start to get a bigger bump my dreams also seem to grow with it.I’ve had a few really morbid crazy ones, where they dropped the new addition on the floor and I had…
