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I have just been looking through my birth register and reading back over the births I have been at Such lovely memories Its interesting to see how many women just use a pool and hypnobirthing in labour Its also very interesting to see only a handful were laying on their backs to give bi ...

Rally is confirmed Brush up on your placard waving skills and campaining voices NCT AIMS ARM IM UKand Albany Mums are proud to present The 'Reclaiming Birth Rally' Sunday March 7th 2010 at 1pm meeting at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park Lambeth Road SE1 4EQ and then marching to Whitehall to ...

The Essex Midwifery midwives had a get together with our clients present and past It was lovely to see our mums and catch up with all the lovely babies We had a little 3 week old to a nearly 3 year old and ages in between It is so fantastic for us to see the children growing and to hea ...

We see our clients up to a month or more before discharge with the Health Visitor introducing herself at about two weeks post birth They are available for women after the midwife discharges and will give information regarding child immunisation whichstarts from 8 weeks old Our clients some ...

I went to an APEC Action on PreEclampsiastudy day yesterday at Kings College London which was extremely informative Professor Chris Redman who is a world renowned authority on the subject gave a brilliant lecture PreEclampsia is an illness arising only in pregnancy which can affect the mot ...

I was introduced to 'The Mother' magazine by a midwife friend who lives and works in Glastonbury She was so impressed with the magazine that she had bought all the back copies I spent a long weekend with her soaking up the magic of Glastonbury walking several times up the Tor and pawing th ...

The Essex Midwifery Practice had one of our social get togethers today We have regular 'meet ups' with our clients both past and present Its a really good opportunity for us to catch up with how 'our' babies are doing and to socialise more with our current clients We really believe that by ...

This was in the BBc news today and thought it made interesting readingHome births 'as safe as hospital'There have been few comprehensive studies into home birthsThe largest study of its kind has found that for lowrisk women giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a mid ...

The Essex Midwifery Practice has been successfully running since 2006 and I thought we would share our impressive statistics with you79% of our women have had a normal vaginal birth61% of these women had their babies at home61% of our women exclusively breastfed beyond 6 weeks87% of women ...

It was 13 years ago today that I gave birth to my daughter at home It was a very memorable night and the feelings of euphoria achievement and empowerment will never leave me My labour was just 3 hours long but very intense and I spent much of it crawling around on my bed I had had a waterb ...