Posts tagged birth plan
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18 Jun
All about hypnobirthing
I met Juliet Hollingsworth on Twitter. I knew from her tweets that she was a HypnoBirthing teacher, so when I decided that James and I should explore it, she was my first port of call. We started the course a…
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15 Jun
Preggo book round-up: Third Trimester
In the third trimester, I was still keeping Amazon in business with my knowledge-buying habit. At this point, I was interested in finding out more specific information about the kind of birth I wanted to have (water birth using hypnobirthing…
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31 May
My birth story: part 3
After spending so much time thinking about what to pack in our hospital bag, I had no desire to partake in any of the entertainment we had loaded onto our various Apple products. I didn’t want to watch Mad Men…
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30 May
My birth story: part 2
I’ve heard mums say that they don’t remember the pain of birth. Even now, on her first weekiversary after the big event, it’s hard to recall the details, past the fact that I now have a beautiful baby girl. But…
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28 May
My birth story: part 1
Apologies for the long delay in more postings, but we’ve been getting used to life with baby. Hopefully, now that the grandparents have vacated the house and James and I are bonding with Baby as a family, I’ll have a…
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04 May
Writing our birth plan (or options)
Now that the big day is getting closer, it’s time to put together the infamous Birth Plan, or Birth Options as our NCT instructor liked to call them, because the birth rarely goes to plan. Since watching the Water Babies…