Estimated Due Date Did you know that only 4-6% of Babies birth on their estimated due date. I want to explore your ‘Estimated due date’. Due dates can cause so much stress. Almost all expectant couples etch their date in their mind. In the UK a pregnancy due date is when mum is 40 weeks…
Estimated Due Date
Gas and Air
What is Gas and Air? Gas and Air is also known as Entonox. It has no colour and no odour. It is typically made up of 50% oxygen and 50% nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas. Entonox does not block the discomfort but it tends to take the edge off. Entonox is available in…
Vaginal Examination
Vaginal Examinations Explained Let me reassure you that a health professional MUST obtain verbal consent from YOU prior to performing a vaginal examination or often referred to as a VE. How are Vaginal Examinations performed? A Midwife or health professional will help you to lie down in a private place and when you are ready…
Delayed Cord Clamping
What is Delayed Cord Clamping? I have been finding in class that not many expectant parents have heard of the phrase ‘delayed cord clamping’. I feel that this is such an important topic to understand so I have decided to write a bite-size expectant parent blog on delayed cord clamping to help you understand what…
Mummy Friends
How amazing is this?! Best mummy friends for life! I’m so glad you all signed up to Talking Babies! I’m glad the classes helped you all achieve a positive birth and helped you to find each other. Thank you these photos are priceless and makes me so happy that you have each other because…
Your Midwife Visit Post Birth.
I’ve been very lucky to have been welcomed into so many different homes post birth as a friend and as a Midwife. It is such a special time and I feel honoured to have been able to watch new parents as they give everything they have to their new love, their beautiful baby. I am…
Your Baby’s Heart Beat
Hearing your baby’s heart beat is perhaps one of the most wonderful moments in pregnancy. I remember longing to hear the beautiful galloping sound of my little one’s heart. When you can hear it it is only natural to want to share this moment with others. However, it is really, really important that if ever…
The Little, Big Gush When Your Waters Break
Here is some bite-size information about what to expect when your waters break. (or to a Midwife ‘your membranes have ruptured’) Did you know that your waters can break at any moment? Before labour, during labour and not at all. That’s right, some babies are born in their amniotic sack also known as the caul! When they…