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Tweet I’ve read various articles about whether home birth or hospital birth is the ‘best choice’ recently. Moving on from the fact that the choice of birth location differs from woman to woman and from birth to birth, what has deeply concerned me is that so many articles state , as Jenny McCartney did recently, [...] Tweet I know the plural of anecdote isn’t evidence – sadly most of the people commenting on the latest negative homebirth article don’t appear to have got that far in their thinking – each seems to need to say about how their neighbour’s friend’s brother’s wife had a terrible homebirth or that their second cousin’s [...] Tweet You know what, I am utterly sick of being told that my super fast labours are the easy option. I’m sick of having people tell me that they’d rather have that than their experience. I’m sick of having to bite my tongue when I’m told that its far easier than whatever they have been [...] Tweet I hate being unable to stop something I see as inevitable, not least in a week when I read that a third of women don’t feel they were treated with respect whilst birthing their child. I’m all for allowing people to control their own destiny but I hate that I can’t help them when [...] Tweet I’ve finally got around to watching One Born Every Minute which is a fabulous documentary following the labour ward at Southampton Hospital. And to be honest watching it makes me INCREDIBLY glad that I had both my births at home. I didn’t have to deal with receptionists, tick box checks and must dos before [...] Tweet > I spent the day at a consultation for our local midwife led birth unit today and was incredibly struck by the huge divide between how health care professionals view birth experiences and how women live with those birth experiences. Because for those in the ‘industry’ birth is a process that they deal with [...] Tweet >Labour is not a competition, right? That said, the next person that tells me that a very short labour is ‘easy’ or ‘wow I’d like that’ or ‘lucky you’ is going to be lucky to escape physical violence. Just a few things I’d like to point out Firstly they don’t tell you when you [...] Tweet After all that had gone on with the pregnancy, its probably fitting that it ended rather dramatically! Yes, despite having planned for hospital, we ended up with another fast birth and Babygirl arriving at home. In the interests of seeing if we could persuade Baby2 to make an appearance I had some acupuncture [...] Tweet >More to follow soon but in short, Babygirl Muddling arrived VERY quickly at home at 6.45am today. Weighing in at a very respectable 6 lbs 9 ozs. We’re all doing very well, if a little shocked by the speed of things – our lovely midwife only arrived 7 minutes before she did! We’re now [...] Tweet > We had a good meeting with the consultant yesterday. I’ve been told to get over my bow tie aversion (why oh why haven’t the fashion police stepped in and done something about bow ties as day wear ?) and that it shows he’s a bit more open than some others. Long story short [...]  |
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