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The waiting game
So my due date came and went yesterday with not even a twinge in womb region. I think the most frustrating thing about this waiting is the constant barrage of calls, texts and Facebook messages asking me if I’ve had the baby yet. Trust me folks, when I do, you’ll know about it. I continue…
Doulas work to reduce fear during labour
A study into labour has found that between five and 20% of women have a fear of childbirth and that those women will labour on average for an hour and 32 minutes longer than those who don’t feel afraid as well as experiencing more intervention during birth. “It is unsurprising that women who feel frightened…
Posted in Labour and Birth, News Tagged charity, Childbirth, Doula, Doula UK, Fear, Labour, labour and birth, News, oxytocin, pain Leave a comment
Does becoming a mum make you smarter?
It’s official: motherhood does make you smarter. Sam Pope talked to US journalist, author and mother Katherine Ellison about her ground-breaking book The Mommy Brain to find out why your brain doesn’t turn to mush during motherhood. Did people joke about your ‘diminishing’ brain capacity when you became a mum? I think I probably made the most self-deprecating…
Posted in Post natal-pregnancy Tagged Brain, Family, Katherine Ellison, Mother, Motherhood, Mum, Neuropeptides, oxytocin, Pregnancy, Smart Leave a comment
Glossary of pregnancy terms: O
Obstetric cholestatis A liver disease which causes a pregnant women to experience widespread and severe itching. Other symptoms can include pale or white stools, dark urine, stomach pain and jaundice. A blood test can be used to help identify the condition. It is usual to delivery the baby early as the risk of stillbirth is…
Induction
The decision to start labour artificially – to have an induction – is a joint one made by you and your midwife/doctor. If your midwife/doctor is suggesting an induction, and you’d prefer not to have one, you can decline it if you want to, and wait a bit longer for labour to start by itself.…
Posted in Birth choices, Labour and Birth, Online antenatal classes Tagged antenatal class, Artificial rupture of membranes, babyworld online antenatal class, Caesarean section, class 7, Forceps, Induction, labour and birth, overdue, oxytocin, pessaries, Pre-eclampsia, Prostaglandin, stretch and sweep, syntocinon, Ventouse Leave a comment
Pregnancy hormones : mean, moody and magnificent
Feeling sluggish How you might feel: Sluggish… constipated… swollen ankles. Eeek! The culprit: Progesterone As soon as ovulation occurs, progesterone levels climb and its main role is to keep the lining of the womb ready to receive the newly-fertilised egg. Why it’s good: Progesterone is essential for keeping your pregnancy going-it stops your womb from contracting too soon and…
Posted in Pregnancy Tagged Hormone, hormone levels, Labour, oxytocin, pain, Pelvis, Pregnancy, Progesterone, Prolactin Leave a comment
Stimulating labour naturally
Stimulating labour the natural way. There are a few simple ways you can try to encourage labour to begin: Make love. When the cervix or neck of the womb is ready for labour to begin, it has the same texture as your lips and is described as being ripe. An unripe cervix is long and hard, rather…
Posted in Labour and Birth Tagged Cervix, contractions, encourage, Labour, natural remedies, Nipple, Orgasm, oxytocin, Pregnancy Leave a comment
Hypnotherapy for labour
Incredible but true … some women don’t want artificial pain relief to get through labour. But before you dismiss them as, at best – mad, at worst – superhuman, check out hypnobirthing – a natural form of pain management during childbirth. What is hypnobirthing? Increasingly, hypnotherapy is gaining credence in mainstream medicine for its powerful and beneficial effects at…
Assisted labour
All labours are different, and they all proceed at their own rate but sometimes assisted labour is necessary. So it’s impossible to say exactly how long any one labour will, or should be. Some doctors believe that there’s a minimum ideal rate of progress and that if labour is going more slowly than that, things…
Painkillers used during labour may influence bonding
How well mothers initially bond with their newborn child may be influenced by some painkillers taken during labour, new research suggests. A team of researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studied the births of a group of babies, using video recordings to capture the whole process. They analysed the way in which babies started bonding with their mums –…
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