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posts related to: Water birth
Heidi and Jasmin share their swimming fun!
Mum of two, Heidi Speed, from Bridport in Dorset, believes that having water births and attending regular baby swimming classes have resulted in her children being more happy, confident and relaxed in the water. Heidi first took her daughter Jasmin to baby swimming classes when she was 7 months old. Now almost a year later…
Posted in Baby, Child Development, Physical activities, Water birth
Tagged baby swimming, Case study, swimming, Swimming pool, Water birth
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Choosing a waterbirth
Waterbirth tends to create a special atmosphere and can be done at home, in birthing centres and maternity units. You might balk at the idea of giving birth in a tub and feel it is the preserve of hippy chicks and earth mothers – it’s not! Research has confirmed that using a birthing pool can really help you cope…
Posted in Labour and Birth, Water birth
Tagged Birth, birthing pool, Labour, Water birth
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Ideas for your birth plan
Your birth plan is ideal if there are certain things that you really do or do not want to happen during your labour. Like some women, you may have individual preferences totally unique to you, but the following is a list of more general considerations. You may know exactly how you want your birth experience to be but…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Labour and Birth, Online antenatal classes
Tagged antenatal class, babyworld online antenatal class, Birth, birth plan, Caesarean section, Childbirth, class 5, Doula, first stage of labour, Labour, Midwife, Placenta, second stage of labour, Third stage of labour, Vitamin K, Water birth
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Can you buy a better birth?
Your own personal midwife, therapists to treat you during labour, a private room and hired help afterwards… can paying for your baby’s birth make a difference? Melanie Deeprose investigates Countless thousands of women have given birth on the NHS and been extremely happy with the care they received. But in today’s cash-starved health service, you…
Waterbirth – contacts
The Active Birth Centre offers advice, antenatal classes and hires out pools: Active Birth Centre 25 Bickerton Road London N19 5JT Tel: 020 7281 6760 Fax: 020 7263 8098 Shop tel: 020 7263 8098 Email: info@activebirthcentre.com www.activebirthcentre.com Having trouble organising a waterbirth in hospital? You might consider hiring the services of an independent midwife who will be…
Posted in Labour and Birth, Water birth
Tagged Active Birth Centre, Baby, birth pool, hire, Home birth, independent midwife, organise, Water birth
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How to organise a waterbirth
First of all discuss the matter with your midwife. She might be happy to support you in labour, or to give you the name of another midwife who has more experience of waterbirth. If she cannot help you, get in touch with the supervisor of midwives at your hospital. If you are planning a home birth, you may…
Hypnotherapy for labour: Jessica’s story
If someone told you that labour and birth could be painless and even enjoyable you might think they were pulling your leg, but if you prepare well and approach the whole process with the right mindset then this is the opportunity that using hypnosis offers. Here Jessica Warren describes how after a difficult first birth she was determined to…
Posted in Hypnobirthing
Tagged Case study, Childbirth, Doula, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy in childbirth, labour and birth, Midwife, Water birth
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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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When waterbirth is not suitable
Practices in different hospitals vary, but if there are factors which complicate the birth in any way, midwives will probably advise caution in the use of the pool. In certain circumstances they might be happy to support a woman labouring in water, but then help her out of the pool for the delivery. This could be the case…
Posted in Labour and Birth, Water birth
Tagged breech, Multiple birth, Pre-eclampsia, premature labour, Water birth
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Birth centre experiences
Find out what sort of experiences the following babyworld members had of birth centres. “It epitomised all that I believe a lovely calm birth should be” “I gave birth to my third beautiful daughter – Georgia Eve – on 1 December 2005 at a midwife-led unit… and it was the most wonderful, positive experience ever!…
Posted in Birth choices, Community, Labour and Birth
Tagged birth centre, Childbirth, community midwife, labour and birth, Midwife, Water birth
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