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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 ...
17 June 2021
The NHS has said that everyone in the UK should have the right to have four choices of birth place: their own home, an alongside midwifery unit, a freestanding ....
17 June 2021
After you have birthed your baby, your next task is to birth your placenta! You can read more about the placenta in The Real Birth Company’s What’s What article, here.
16 June 2021
Read or listen to almost everyone’s birth story and it will include a measurement in centimetres. “I was 5cm when the midwife arrived.
9 June 2021
Antenatal classes are a wonderful way for you and your partner, if you have one, to prepare for your baby’s birth, and the early days of parenting.
27 May 2021
17 May 2021
You’ve got your positive pregnancy test – now what happens?
Firstly, congratulations on your pregnancy!
11 May 2021
There is so much to consider when planning a vaginal birth! Whether you’d accept vaginal examinations, labour and birth positions, pain relief ….
30 April 2021
Congratulations! You’ve got that positive pregnancy test and you’re starting on a new journey together with your growing baby. What happens now? What should you expect in the early days of pregnancy?
25 April 2021
22 April 2021
Everyone bleeds from their vagina after they have given birth, no matter how they gave birth. But what is this blood, how long should it go on for and when ....
22 April 2021
The most that many of us think about our baby’s amniotic fluid – our ‘waters’ – is whether they will break in bed and ruin the mattress, or in the middle of the supermarket ....
21 April 2021
You’re reaching the end of your pregnancy! You can’t wait to meet your baby – and maybe you’re a little anxious, too!
18 March 2021
With induction rates running at around 40% in some hospitals, chances are that as you reach the end of your pregnancy you’ll be offered an induction for one reason or another.
16 March 2021
During your pregnancy you will be offered at least two ultrasound scans, and possibly more. This article and the article in the second trimester section explain ....
16 March 2021
The second routine scan that you will be offered is around 18-21 weeks of pregnancy and this is commonly called the anomaly scan. It doesn’t really sound particularly comforting!
3 March 2021
The breastfeeding bubble…sounds lovely! It is the powerful interaction of hormones that are produced and released when a woman breastfeeds her baby.
24 February 2021
The word placenta comes from a Latin and Greek word meaning type of cake, the placenta cake was not a placenta cake at all, it was a flat cake made up ....
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