Birth & Baby Blog

Where knowledge, experience and insight meet to give you the pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey you deserve.

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Let’s talk about stretch & sweeps…

"I am booked in for a sweep on my due date!" is a common pregnancy milestone in the UK... but what are they? do they work? why would you want one?

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Four things I’d tell my first-time-mum self…

Pregnancy is hard. Parenting is hard. Why do we make it harder for ourselves by not sharing the knowledge we have?

These four knowledge nuggets won’t take away the hard, but they’ll help to prepare you for it.

Read time: 8 mins

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‘Bounce back’ expectations are bollocks.

Am I ‘back to normal’, since having my baby? Of all the things I hear that are complete bullshit, that takes the biscuit.

Four simply steps to take to replace the idea of bounce-back with transformation.

Read time: 9 mins

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