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Reaching your due date
Pregnancy is normal if it lasts anything from 37 weeks to 42 weeks. The trouble with being given a due date is that you and your partner and all your friends become focused on one particular day of the year rather than on the one or two weeks around that date. In fact, only around five per cent…
Home birth: your rights
Even though you have decided on a home birth, you may find that family, friends and some medical staff are against the idea so it’s worth knowing just what your rights are, how to convince others that you actually really do know what you want and, if all else fails, what options you’re left with…
Induction
Stimulating labour naturally You’ll come across loads of suggestions for different things that you can do to try and start labour off yourself. These include: Having sex because semen contains prostaglandin, which can help soften the cervix. A few studies have shown that having sex at term may decrease the need for labour induction, but…
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Going overdue
Your due date Research suggests that the placenta can start to function a little less well for a very small number of women after 41 weeks of pregnancy and that this decline can accelerate after 42 weeks. This is why many hospitals offer to induce women when they are between 41 and 42 weeks gestation.…
