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Matt’s Birth Story – A Dads perspective 💥
This story made me ball like a baby 😭 What a tribute to his wife & new baby girl. Thanks for sharing your story with us Matt 🦸🏻♂️🦸🏻♀️ A birth story……..From a first time Father 💥 After my partner had started having contractions on Friday night she gave birth to...
Baby’s Movements
💥Baby’s Movement 💥 💥Home Dopplers are dangerous. Period. If you listen in to baby’s heart rate and you hear a nice normal heart rate sound because you’ve googled a normal heart rate for a baby, you may get false reassurance from this. There are many things that we...
What is Hypnobirthing? Facts or Fantasy.
If you’ve landed on this page then I’m sure you’ve heard this term thrown around many times ... I’m sure you have heard it talked about amongst those positive birth stories but wonder whether it is all too good to be true. A good birth is something that only happens...
The Birth Chapter
Birth Story Gestational Diabetes
This positive birth story with gestational diabetes, was written by Beth, midwife & founder of The Bump to Baby Chapter.
Fran’s Positive Cesarean Birth
Love reading positive birth stories, you're in the right place.... This positive birth story by Fran was a high risk pregnancy due to gestational hypertension, 3 episodes of reduced movement and a GBS carrier. Fran's story includes an induction and a positive cesarean...
Positive Birth Stories: Jessica- Big Baby
Positive birth stories big baby…. This birth story is Jessica’s 3rd baby, a big baby. She used breathing techniques, hypnobirthing and had a waterbirth.
The Baby Chapter
Things To Celebrate From 2019
2019 was my third year doing The Bump to Baby Chapter and it was a wild one. Wild like in this above photo wild, surviving the nights, managing 2 young children at home, writing blogs and scheduling emails at 2am with a baby on my boob, or walking around with her on...
What we can learn from the 3 Wise Men about visiting after a baby.
Managing visitors after having a baby... Christmas time is a time for lots of family and friends to visit. Having a baby brings even more reasons for visitors as everyone wants to meet your new arrival, plus you want to show off the new tiny, beautiful human that...
Breaking Dad
As I lie on the floor trying to write this, with my 7 month year old daughter crawling all over me, clawing at my note pad, shrieking in my ear and doing her best to be impossibly cute, I’m ashamed to admit to how I’ve felt before;...