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Childbirth

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

Is it much easier to get 'the birth experience you want' if it's something the midwives like?
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ELCS - can you eat night before? and other silly questions
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What did you do with your children during labour?
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Outdoor homebirth?
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Giving birth with SPD/PGP
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SWEEPs!
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I just want to point out that episiotomies are NOT routine birth practice.
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anasthetist wrote early epidural on notes what does it actually mean?
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Is second labour really easier?
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Ladies who had traumatic births. . . .ever feel like this???
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Being induced when already 3cm, could I still have a waterbirth?
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Post-childbirth effects on body
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Labour the second time around
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Oh dear, I really need some wise words here.
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Cheer up a grumpy overdue woman with stories of spontaneous labour and coping strategies please 
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I spent hours having contractions and was only 1cm dilated, why?
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Silly c-section question
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Doc said will need to induce early, can I do anything to 'help' go naturally early?
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Failure to progress
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How many weeks do you generally have your ELCS?
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Anyone not remember stretches of time AFTER delivery?
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Even sillier CS question
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Returning to exercise - am I always going to have alluringly bulgy pants?
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Walthamstow maternity choices, homerton, whittington or UCLH
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'push, come on, push' a OBEM question
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Scared mum with gestational diabetes + big baby
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chances of being induced after a Spon Ceph first delivery?
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Requesting a c-section: has anyone done it?
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MLU or hospital birth?
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Help! Friend works in maternity theatre in hospital where I'm giving birth... WWYD??
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Signs of labour 2nd time
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LLETZ (cervix op) causing problems with future births?
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Haywire emotions a sign of prelabour?
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Do you think it is possible to think yourself out of a spontaneous labour?
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Could do with some advice. ELCS or VB after traumatic first birth?
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mucus plug + c-section
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Lochia - is this normal?? (TMI!!)
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Induction - any advice and what's involved?
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What stops women in pain from ripping out the induction drip?
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OBEM tonight!
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Echogenic Bowel & Early Induction
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Maybe I was traumatised by childbirth after all
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ELCS - what to expect and what to pack?
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How much can you feel the spinal for a section?
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Eek - labour?
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Being sterilised after ELCS - thoughts anyone?
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Support thread for those attempting VBAC soon?
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Water birth- are you allowed any drugs other than G&A?!
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Hospital bag essentials
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Normal vaginal birth with breech baby?
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