Home birth safer than hospital birth for healthy low risk women
A new recommendation by NICE says mums are better off giving birth in the comfort of their own home than in hospitals.
- Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife
Being present, as a protective “force-field” of loving kindness is your job
Men: when the woman you love is being taken over by an oxytocin fuelled trip, you are going to become an adrenalin factory! Why? Because when we were hunter gathers she needed protecting. She still DOES!
- Published in Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife, Working with UKBC
Almost all modern women acquire a due date early in pregnancy and understand that this date signifies an optimum time frame during which human pregnancy should end. However researchers have challenged received wisdom around the notion of the average length of pregnancy (Mittendorf et al1990, 1993, Mittendorf & Williams 1991, van der Kooy 1994).
- Published in Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife
Birth is a piece of cake
I am loving the current series of “The British Bake Off” and seeing all those amazing cakes puts me in mind of a birth I attended at home!
- Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth