Guest blogger Sarah Buchanan reviews 'Rediscovering Birth' by Sheila Kitzinger. Giving birth is a shared experience by women all over the world and no matter your experience, age or societal status it is a unifying act. However, the physical and spiritual methods of how the world’s different and diverse cultures give birth is fascinatingly complex ...
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Diary of a free range pregnancy: What is free range care?
Understanding Husband took a slightly weary sigh when I announced that I wanted to have another home birth, no scans, minimal engagement with the NHS and to ask a Dear Friend (who is an Independent Midwife) to care for me. The point of compromise was that I would have the anomaly scan (between ...
How reliable is ultrasound in detecing big babies?
Being told you have a big baby is a serious concern for many women. It often sets in motion a stream of suggestions that mother and baby are monitored and restrictions are put on options around birth, invariably that the mother has to be in a hospital if not on an operating table. American ...