birth stories

A birth

induction hook

labour room excitement paperwork hooks on trays, look away unpacking: book/lipbalm/water bottle kissing four faces goodbye nervous tears lonely waiting cannula, oops try again try again medical guinea pig monitoring swish-swish of a heartbeat reading staring out of the window missing four faces waiting excitement hungry HUNGRY food, relief doctor, introductions touching my feet but, [...]

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Thirteen weeks pregnant: birth stories

I’m all ‘booked in’, the phrase used by the midwives here to get you into the system and under the care of the midwife team. An hour long visit by the midwife covered all my medical history and the pregnancies and births so far. ‘Harry was forceps, William was an emergency C-section and although Ben’s [...]

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A birth story

My newborn is now ten weeks old. I haven’t posted the birth story yet because I wanted to get a little distance from it so I could write objectively about it. So I can say completely objectively, it. was. awful. I’m probably breaking some mothers’ code about not saying how awful childbirth can be but, [...]

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A birth story: how the horse and I bonded

Warning, you may not want to read this if you are about to have a baby. Or even if you think you might one day have a baby. Or if you are at all squeamish. So, fed up of unpacking yesterday, we decided to visit my sister and brother-in-law at their stud farm where a [...]

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