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What Every Birth Partner Needs to Know Before Labour Begins. One of the biggest myths about birth is that the pregnant woman is the only person who needs to prepare. In reality, birth is very much a team effort.

Preparing for Birth Means Preparing for Recovery Too. When most women think about preparing for birth, they often focus on labour itself. Will contractions start naturally? What will birth feel like? Should I write a birth plan? Will I need pain relief? These are all important questions. But during a recent episode of the Midwife Pip Podcast with specialist pelvic health physiotherapist Aby Tobin, we explored a topic that deserves far more attention during pregnancy. P

When I recently welcomed Davina McCall onto the Midwife Pip Podcast, I knew we would have an honest conversation about pregnancy, birth and women's health. What I didn't expect was just how many important themes emerged that I hear every single day in my work as a Midwife. We talked about trusting your body, making informed choices, positive birth experiences, birth trauma, pelvic health and why women deserve to feel seen, heard and supported throughout pregnancy and labo

Biomechanics for Birth teaching women how to creating space and balance for a smoother labour and birth.

Like so many people, I’d imagined a spontaneous labour and relaxing water birth. I hadn’t done a course, but I’d read a good book about...

From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I knew I wanted to try to have a home birth. Both my sisters have had their babies at home,...

I should have twigged what lay in store later that night when at 2pm, six days into my maternity leave, I got a sudden urge to paint a...

The day before my due date (Easter Sunday!), I woke up at around 6am, feeling irregular but definite tightening sensations. I wasn’t...

On the night of Monday 16 January I thought I could feel my waters slowly start to trickle, but it was hard to tell.Waking up in the...

My journey started with fertility difficulties and, after a failed first round of IVF, we were successful on round two! We had been...

The female body is incredible. I ended up in the first stage of labour for circa 36 hours which was fairly long but manageable as we did...

It was the heatwave of 2020 lockdown and, quite frankly, I was desperate to get this baby out, but of course my due date went by without...

If I told you the day I had major abdominal surgery was the best day of my entire life, would you believe me? Not only because we got to...

Forceps Birth * Trigger warning- shoulder dystocia happened at this birth Oliver, 8lb 11, 1st Jan 2022 On 29th December I had an...

NICOLA'S BIRTH STORY- ELECTIVE CAESAREAN SECTION I delivered by elective c section on Friday 13th January 2023 but in order to explain...

REBECCA'S BIRTH STORY- ELECTIVE CAESAREAN SECTION I had a relatively straightforward pregnancy, i did have a lot of sickness which...

Chelsea's Positive Birth Story It was 4am on Thursday 16th February and I woke to go for one of my many night time pees but this time...

What a whirlwind. NB: Long birth story- original pref VBAC actual birth emergency c-section. I was up for 4 hours with very manageable...

I was fortunate that I had a smooth, uncomplicated pregnancy and remained low-risk. I had to have a GDD test because my dad is diabetic...

After a lovely Sunday morning walk to try to encourage my little one to arrive (I was a week over my EDD and was booked into speak about...