Well, HE arrived! At 41 weeks gestation exactly our son arrived. A baby brother to 3 very excited big sisters. We decided to call him James, but Jimmy suits him well. Who of you guessed the gender correctly? My tightening’s started as niggles at 2pm on Saturday 30th of September as we were sat in …
I’m ‘over-due’, a phase I use loosely. 5 days ‘over-due’ and things are starting to get a little crap. Not so much with the pregnancy but the public property my cervix has become. Did you know that a pregnancy is considered term from anywhere between 37 weeks and 42 weeks gestation? That’s a whole 5 …
It’s pretty set that I get to finally have a home birth. After 2 high risk pregnancies, that both went completely problem free and our 3rd birth being a beautiful and quick water birth, we have finally decided to get the home birth that we want. It’s time to write our home birth, birth plan. …
Todays guest blog post comes from a personal friend and placenta magician Beverly Gazy. A week in the life of a placenta remedies consultant, sounds long winded but in a nutshell I help women who wish to consume their own placenta after they have birthed their baby’s. I have been helping women as a Doula (Birth companion) for …
I finally got to keep my placenta! Yay! With Willow, I had these amazing plans to keep the placenta and bury it with a Willow tree in our garden. Of course we got distracted, and forgot to pick it up from the hospital. With Olive, I had to have my placenta removed after the …
We did it!!!! We brought a new little baby girl into this world on Sunday, and her name is Ivy. Say ‘Hello’ Ivy! She arrived very fast, and is our smallest delivery yet at just 6lb 8oz. She flew out! Here is the low down… I had planned a birthday party for Willow on Sunday …
Childbirth. A woman, laying on her back, legs in stirrups up in the air, she is screaming in pain with beads of sweat and tears rolling down her forehead. A panicked husband stood by her side, or is that him passed out on the floor? So many doctors and midwives, maybe even a surgeon. Utensils …
It’s National Poetry Day today (2/10/14) and even though I am ABSOLUTELY rubbish at writing poems, I thought I would give it a go! We will always remember the day we discovered, A day of surprise, sickness and blubbers. Are we ready for another tiny person? With hands all sticky, touching everything they shouldn’t. We …
So as most of you know by now through the powers of social media, we are expecting baby number 3! I am 16 weeks and doing really well (except for those horrible pregnancy niggles that most women experience- think tiredness, puking and feeling like I my chest is on fire. em>) and our scan showed …
As a pre warning, this post will be quite graphic…. And my language colourful. But its informative (I hope!) Here is the story of Olive Georgina Newhouse’s arrival. I tried to keep it as brief but informative as possible. On Thursday 13th of June at 9:52pm, was when our second baby girl arrived into this …
Parents to be wishing for a more natural birth have now taken ‘Lotus Births’ into consideration. A lotus birth is where the baby is delivered, followed by the placenta…. still attached to the baby! The umbilical cord and placenta are kept together until they detach themselves, which can take from 2-3 days or even up to a …
Firstly, Sorry I have not written for a few days, had a really busy weekend, doing some exciting stuff. I am up to the letter N- Newborns, and how they look when they first come out. When a baby first enters this world, they can have a slightly shocking appearence, that some people are not …
Now, some people are really grossed out when it comes to the subject of placentas. When Willow was born, the midwives at Bedford hospital asked what we would like to do with our placenta. As legally it belonged to us, the decision to throw it or keep it was also down to us. We decided to …
My letter for today is ‘I’ and I am going to write about Inducton of Labour. This shall mostly be about my experience of a labour induction. I had read a little about the induction of labour when I was pregnant with Willow, and it came to no suprise when I was told that I …
