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UK Mums favour pain relievers
UK mothers stand out across Europe, favouring pain relievers as one of their first responses to child illness Insight from a new independent study on European temperature taking commissioned by Kaz Europe SA, the manufacturer of Braun thermometers, shows that 57.6% of UK mothers give their children pain relievers upon the onset of illness compared…
Posted in A-Z of Childhood illnesses, Baby Health, News, Toddler
Tagged child, fever, illness, News, pain, pain relief, sick, Temperature, temperature/fever, Thermometer
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Aromatherapy in labour
Aromatherapy massage can provide relaxation and relief to women in the first stage of labour, according to the results of a long-term study of more than 8000 expectant mums. Along with more conventional forms of pain relief, women in the first stage of labour were offered essential oils, dropped onto a slip of paper or…
Common forms of pain relief during labour
There are several choices to make regarding medical forms of pain relief, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. Talk through your options with your midwife. The right choice will depend in part on how far into labour you are, and how quickly labour is progressing. Your midwife will do an internal examination to see how dilated your cervix…
Advantages of waterbirths
Immersion in warm water is an excellent form of pain relief. Some women feel the relief as soon as they lower themselves into the pool, for others it takes 10-15 minutes to get the full benefit The depth of the water gives support and makes it easier to try different positions The warm water is a natural…
Posted in Labour and Birth, Water birth
Tagged Baby, benefits, contractions, Entonox, gas and air, labour and birth, pain relief, Relaxation, Water birth
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Pain relief for a home birth
Probably since you decided on a home birth, most people will have asked what you’ll do without an epidural. Well, while it’s true that you cannot have an epidural at a home birth, not every hospital birth has an epidural either! It also doesn’t mean that you have to go through your whole labour without any form of pain…
When should I write my birth plan?
By half way into your pregnancy, you’ll probably start giving some thought into how you want to give birth. Do you want an epidural or a water birth? At home or in hospital? Would you like your baby delivered straight onto your tummy, even if he’s bloody, or would you like him cleaned up first?…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Labour and Birth
Tagged Baby, birth plan, Hospital, labour and birth, Midwife, pain relief, Pregnancy, when
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Care after a caesarean
It is important for you to have excellent pain relief for the first few days after your operation. This may mean: Topping up the epidural that was used for the Caesarean Injections of strong drugs such as pethidine, omnopon or diamorphine Voltarol suppositories which are absorbed through the back passage to give very good pain relief Don’t…
Making a birth plan
Although it is impossible to know ahead what sort of a birth you will have, it is worth thinking about some of the options you might face in labour. You can make some decisions in advance about what you want to do during labour, and how you want to be cared for. Making a plan…
Birth plan: examples
How you write your plan will depend on how strongly you feel about any specific areas. It can be quite short and simple, as these examples show. Birth plan one I hope to keep as active and mobile as possible in labour with the help of my partner Paul. I would appreciate your help and…
Elective caesarean birth plan
If they know they’re having a caesarean, some women like to make a caesarean birth plan so that their carers know what they would prefer. Even if you’re not having a planned caesarean, you might like to think about what you would like if it were to happen. Here are some suggestions Pick and choose…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Caesarean section, Labour and Birth, Online antenatal classes
Tagged antenatal class, babyworld online antenatal class, birth plan, breastfeed, Caesarean section, class 8, Elective caesarean section, Epidural, general anaesthetic, labour and birth, pain relief
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