Fathers’ Home Birth Handbook
This book has just been published and I think it is so well written and will fill a much-needed void in the information available for Fathers. It is written by the lovely Leah Hazard, a doula colleague...
View ArticleDo We Need Antibiotics for Premature Rupture of Membranes?
Articles The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9646, Pages 1310 – 1318, 11 October 2008 Editors’ note: In 2001, the ORACLE I trial showed that in women with premature rupture of the fetal membranes, but no...
View ArticleFathers’ role in childbirth
Fathers have a role in childbirth that has been carved out for them by hospitals and doctors so this film is incredibly important in helping dads to truly accompany their partners through birth. On the...
View ArticleSpoilt For Choice?
Ahhh CHOICE, what an emotive word. We live in a world full of it and I sometimes wonder if there is’t too much of it – especially when I’m in a supermarket or am flicking through my 100+ TV channels....
View ArticleWhy Just One Day?
This post is dedicated to all the amazing doulas I know who ‘mother the mother’, to every breastfeeding support worker I know and to every single mother I have ever supported – you are all incredible....
View ArticlePlanning a Wedding!
This is a guest blog post from my dear, imaginary friend Janet. She wrote me a letter recently with the happy news that she is expecting to get married in the spring. It is copied here verbatum. “Dear...
View ArticleTwin Birth – How it CAN Be
A very special, very strong, determined and wonderful client has given me permission to share her story here. After a homebirth first time round, she had implicit faith in her body’s ability to grow...
View Article“In Yer Basket!”, or, the cult of the baby-trainer
I don’t think it ever seriously occurred to me that what I had just pushed out of my body wasn’t a human being. I was definitely completely certain it wasn’t a puppy (despite my strange pregnancy...
View ArticleTHE ‘C’ WORDS – Part 1: Choice
Choice in Childbirth. What is it, what does it mean and why is it so important? As doulas, we talk about choice all the time, sometimes in a rather casual, throw-away kind of way. We all know about...
View ArticleThe first days of breastfeeding
Babies are usually born with a jolly good covering of brown fat. This is to sustain them in the early days. They don’t really need ‘feeding’ as such in the first few days, in fact, their tummies are so...
View ArticleArticle 6
Love what this woman can do – take a look at this: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11866448 Wonderful for educating children – maybe preparing older siblings for being at a homebirth?...
View ArticleWhy we need to make informed choices about the drugs we take while breastfeeding
I wasn’t aware til recently quite how much an effect codeine can have on us and our newborns when we’re breastfeeding. I’ve recently been supporting a mother who was very sleepy and extremely...
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