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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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Moving to London 2 months before due date
8
Confused about my birth options? Epidural or ELCS?
15
Unscientific survey: What was your successful VBAC like?
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Giving birth alone
7
What checks before discharge from hospital?
5
Vbac after 11 years?
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Anyone else due this week WAITING & keen to get going ?!!
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Has anyone given birth at Homerton hospital recently?
16
Planned c-section - don't want Mother in law to know the date - am I being unreasonable?
17
what were your first signs of labour?
14
Coccyx Damage Childbirth
5
Bleeding 39 weeks anyone had this, and what was the outcome?
8
Second birth advice,
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28 hours of irregular contractions.
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How many people are terrified in the third trimester??
6
Birthing Ball
4
39 weeks pink waters
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Remedies to heal marks/sore skin on tummy
5
Debriefing of labour anyone?
2
How soon after birth did your periods start?
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DD is now 16 weeks- C-Section site is constantly itchy and overhangs terribly.
12
ELCS Tomorrow
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is this the start of something?
8
How long can fathers stay post delivery
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When do 'period-like cramps' stop being just that and count as actual contractions?
11
The first 6 weeks - how did you cope?
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Sweeps and induction
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Can you request a particular consultant to perform an elcs?
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Ridiculously achy leg(s)
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Did your dc's sense when your next baby was on its way?
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Placenta Encapsulation - how do doctors/midwives etc react to the request?
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fathers absent from the beginning
5
Earlyish induction for first timer, bad idea?
10
Home vbac - any experiences?
24
What Pain did you experience after a 3rd Degree Tear? TMI Warning!
8
Time of admittance for ELCS
30
Strange q alert! Emcs scar and hair removal
7
2nd-time ELCS - what are your experiences?
9
How quickly were you discharged after a c/s?
37
Potentially in Consultant Led Unit..... Again.
10
Afterpains!
13
VBAC 13 months after previous c-section?
4
Being refused an elective caesarean section - help?
15
Succenturiate lobe and ELCS
12
Mucus plug
10
Sex after childbirth
13
GD 36 weeks Induction
2
Back pain 2 years after epidural?
3
Positive c section stories please :)
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