Birth Archive

  • The right book can be a real source of support and help you feel confident in your choices, but reading the wrong ones can make you feel frustrated and a bit of a failure. As every parent and baby is different you need to take what works for you, and supports you. Here are books that have inspired other parents.

    Inspirational books

    The right book can be a real source of support and help you feel confident in your choices, but reading the wrong ones can make you feel frustrated and a bit of a failure. As every parent and baby is different you need to take what works for you, and supports you. Here are books that have inspired other parents.

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  • New Research Shows “Kangaroo Mother Care” Reduces Newborn Deaths More than 50 Percent, Proven to be More Effective than Incubators for Stable Preterm Babies. A new meta-analysis led by Dr. […]

    Kangaroo care reduces newborn deaths by more than 50 percent

    New Research Shows “Kangaroo Mother Care” Reduces Newborn Deaths More than 50 Percent, Proven to be More Effective than Incubators for Stable Preterm Babies. A new meta-analysis led by Dr. […]

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  • Born at home, 10:38am, weighing 3.74kg. After a long, tiring hospital labour, first in Watford’s ABC and culminating in an unnecessary panicky trip to delivery suite, with our first child […]

    My hypnobirth

    Born at home, 10:38am, weighing 3.74kg. After a long, tiring hospital labour, first in Watford’s ABC and culminating in an unnecessary panicky trip to delivery suite, with our first child […]

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  • In search of an easier birth we are trying hypnobirthing this time round. The theory being that if the body is relaxed and there is no expectation of pain childbirth […]

    Hypnobirthing

    In search of an easier birth we are trying hypnobirthing this time round. The theory being that if the body is relaxed and there is no expectation of pain childbirth […]

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