Importance of Preparing Your Perineum for Delivery: A Comprehensive Guide
By incorporating perineal massage into your prenatal routine, you’re taking a crucial step toward a smoother, less traumatic delivery experience.
labour & birth
7 Birth Injuries Affecting Families in 2023
When these seven birth injuries occur, they can lead families to file birth injury lawsuits against the responsible parties:
Top Things Every New Mum Should Know Before Giving Birth
We’ll provide you with some of the most valuable tips for expecting mothers like yourself so that you can go into labour confident about what lies ahead; We’ll address topics such as familiarizing yourself with childbirth terminologies . . .
An experienced Mum’s impression of #Bumpfest
Rather like Supermodels who don’t get out of bed for some ridiculous sum of money, I don’t usually get out of bed before 6.30am if I can help it (since the night feeds stopped) but the lure of a child-free day out in London was just too much temptation for me so my alarm was … Read more
Elastolabo®: New product launched to help prevent perineal trauma during childbirth
Every year, up to 55% of women (approximately 330,000) suffer from perineal trauma, damage to the area between the vagina and anus, during childbirth. The statistics around this incredibly common and painful side effect of childbirth aren’t widely discussed but a medical product does exist for pregnant women to help prevent tearing or the need … Read more
Jelly Bean’s Birth Story
It’s hard to believe that Jelly Bean has been here over three weeks already and yet in some ways it’s hard to imagine the days before he arrived, it just feels normal to have him here. My readers will not be surprised to learn that I was getting a little impatient towards the end of … Read more
This time last year . . .
This time last year was my due date for our eagerly awaited baby boy and I still looked like this . . . This time last year I had woken up thinking “he won’t come today”. This time last year I had spent the afternoon in the maternity unit hooked up to monitors to listen … Read more
I’m in labour!!
About 5 minutes after my post this morning “Where are you baby?” I popped to the loo to “spend a penny” and ended up getting more than I bargained for. My first thought was “have I just wet myself” but bearing in mind I’d just had a wee, I thought that was a very unlikely … Read more
This is going to hurt . . . .
I look at my bump and see how big it has become in the last nine months, I feel and prod around to work out just how big my baby is, and I have to say, he doesn’t feel small, and I know this is going to hurt like hell.