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What is VBAC?
By Laura Lee Davies on 16/02/2009 00:05:56
A 'natural birth' when you have previously has a caesarian is called Vaginal Birth After Caesarian, but what are the risks?
mothers will probably find that the fetal heart-rate is more closely monitored during labour, than for mothers having routine births.Health professionals have mixed views on whether a VBAC is acceptable in a home birth, though some believe it is preferable
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New wireless foetal monitor could improve birth
By Susie Boone on 18/02/2011 13:25:12
US approves monitor that could allow greater movement during labour and delivery
of your baby while you’re having contractions, to check on the health of your unborn baby.Being wireless, the monitor has no uncomfortable wires or belt, and so means mums in labour can move round and get into effective birth positions.This is particularly
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Turning a breech baby
By Laura Lee Davies on 07/07/2009 00:59:30
If you find out that your baby is breech, it can often be 'turned around' so that it's in a better position for labour, but how is this done?
will be advised about aftercare, in order to ensure that bleeding or discomfort do not signal any danger for you and your child. However, in most cases a mother will go home and safely await the normal labour and birth procedure which may follow even weeks later
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Birth Positions
By Louise Rogers on 22/01/2007 01:38:53
Medics may have positively encouraged Western women to labour on their backs – let’s face it, it’s easier for them to see what’s going on – but that’s not how it always was, or indeed how it should necessarily be.
Medics may have positively encouraged Western women to labour on their backs – let’s face it, it’s easier for them to see what’s going on – but that’s not how it always was, or indeed how it should necessarily be. Upright birth is still the norm
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Questionnaire: What birth option is right for you?
By Debra Stottor on 04/11/2009 01:37:22
Try the ThinkBaby Birth Questionnaire to see what kind of birthing options you should be thinking about
’t necessarily right for you. So if you’re not sure whether you want to go for a home birth, a water birth or all-available-pain-relief-please birth, our light-hearted questionnaire might just point you in the right direction. Just bear in mind that what happens
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The home birthing option
By Maria Muennich on 17/06/2009 01:32:58
The government plans to make home birth an option to all mums in two years' time, but is it worth the fuss?
your heart on a home birth it's important to bear in mind that there's no guarantee it will give you the birth experience you are hoping for, or even that a labour that starts off at home will end with a home birth. While you do have a higher chance of
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Turning a breech baby
By ThinkBaby on 11/10/2009 01:10:35
Although babies usually move to be head downwards, ready for the birth, during the last few weeks of pregnancy, can they be 'turned' if they presenting in a breech position?
turning there might be.Your midwife or specialist might begin to the discuss the need for a hospital birth if you were hoping to have your baby at home.As the due date nears, if the baby still cannot be turned or has not turned itself, and is not in one
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Will my baby be low-birthweight?
By Laura Lee Davies on 03/03/2008 01:42:41
Having a baby who is under 5lb 8oz at birth can signal long term health problems, but is there anything you can do to reduce the risk of a low birthweight?
Although in cases of premature birth, there is not a great deal you can do about a baby being born underweight, there are quite a few things you can do about helping to ensure your baby is a good weight if he is born at full-term.What is a 'low
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Why music is so important when you're giving birth
By Rachel Beckett on 21/09/2011 09:32:16
iPod at the ready! Plan your soundtrack for delivering your baby and you could have a smoother birth
that music ‘got them through’. In the same way it’s worth thinking about the benefits that music can bring to labour and birth and the ways in which it can help you on your big day.Listening to music during labour and birth is not a new idea, however
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Laura's birth story
By Laura Davis on 23/05/2005 09:27:51
A timely appearance from baby Theo
impending labour, it suddenly occurs to you that the things you think you know are as follows:that the birth will happen on almost any date other than the one you have been given that the duration of your labour will be indeterminate, but prolonged
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