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Jo, Jon & Baby Frankie
I was 10 days overdue and really starting to get stressed that my baby would never arrive. I’d had so many phone calls from friends and family asking how I was doing, and although I can look back now and see how lovely those phone calls were, at the time they were just reminders that I hadn’t had my baby yet and still was waddling around waiting for something to happen! I couldn’t complain too much, although I had a few aches and pains, and bad heart burn near the end, I had had a fantastic pregnancy, not even any morning sickness! I had... Read full article
Sally, Paul, Gracie and Gabriel
So, here we are having an early pregnancy scan! I am 7 weeks pregnant and want to make sure all is alright. When the stenographer looks at Paul and then myself and says “ There’s one heartbeat and here is the other!” TWINS. We just sat looking at each other “Twins”, “Yes, Twins!” It took a while to sink in and then he says “We had better go and look at buggies. We need to test drive them.” Not my first instinct, but let’s go shopping. Over the next few weeks it took a while to just stop saying “Twins!” 2 babies, then reality kicked in and our... Read full article
Seph, Pete and Charlie
My work as a pregnancy massage therapist had given me great insight into the wonders of pregnancy and birth but feedback I got from the majority of my clients regarding the continuity of care they received through the nhs due to the low midwife numbers in the West country had led me to decide to book the services of an independent midwife, and as luck would have it the wonderful services of Amanda Bellenger... Read full article
Mandy, Chris, Jacob and Baby Solomon
My first son (Jacob) was born 2 ½ years ago, 2 weeks overdue, a 72 hour labour ending by induction at hospital which naturally lent itself to a whole host of intervention including everything on offer bar a c-section. After his birth I dealt with the after effects of a highly medicalised birth as best I could with a fractious baby, exhausted mummy, breast-feeding issues and a damaged pelvic floor. I am a... Read full article
Chris, Claire and baby Harry
Harry was due to be born on Sunday 8th February 2009 so when he hadn’t arrived a week later I began to get a little concerned. This was mainly due to the fact that Chris and I had our hearts set on going to Okehampton Maternity Unit for the birth as Chris would be allowed to stay with Harry and I and we would be able to stay until we felt ready to ‘go it alone’! At 11 days past my due date I had an... Read full article
