22 June 2021
The Big Baby Trial is being run by the University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. The researchers obtained over two and a half million pounds ...
27 May 2021
25 April 2021
23 February 2021
To paraphrase (or perhaps, with apologies, to butcher) Jane Austin, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman or person who is pregnant, must be in want of antenatal education”....
27 January 2021
Becoming an antenatal class teacher with The Real Birth Company means that you’ll be part of one of the most important positive influences on the birth outcomes of the parents that you support
21 January 2021
Freebirth can be a controversial topic, some people find it a difficult one to discuss with antenatal class clients. People often hold strong opinions either way, finding out what really is legal and what isn’t can be tricky.
20 December 2020
For years, requests have popped up on social media, on posters in antenatal waiting rooms and via the Knitting Networks. “Volunteers needed to knit baby hats for newborns in the maternity unit”...
7 September 2020
There is a failing in our school system, and it is that despite all of the sex education and reproductive biology that we may have all had to giggle through, there is nothing – and I mean nothing – on birth itself, beyond the fact that the baby comes out
6 August 2020
The Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries (OASI) Bundle is a group of interventions which aims to reduce the number of injuries up to and into the anal sphincter which can happen during a vaginal birth.