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I always think that vaginal tears is a perfect exa

I always think that vaginal tears is a perfect example of showing how.. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER trumps IGNORANCE IS BLISS…. All. Day. Long 💪🏼 You can stack the odds in your favour to reduce the chance of tearing or lessen the tear. If you’re feeling anxious about tearing then these little tips & tricks are GAME CHANGING 💥 You can feel prepared 💪🏼 , reduce your anxieties 🤯 and reduce your chances of tearing…. It’s a no brainer. It is though, important to remember that it’s about STACKING THE ODDS IN YOUR FAVOUR and it is not a guarantee. You can do everything you possibly can but still have a tear. This is not your fault, you are not to blame. Birth is a 2 way street. Sometimes a tear can happen from things that are out of your control … an instrumental birth or a baby that’s coming out with her hand up like a superhero 🦸‍♀️ And in the situations where you have a tear to recover from, ‘knowledge is power’ moto comes back again! 💥 Knowing how to make the recovery process a smooth one can make all the difference when you have a newborn to care for as well as yourself. So, how the online Birth & Baby courses can help, -Knowing what you can do to reduce a vaginal tear will lessen the chances of this happening.
-Reduce your anxieties in pregnancy about tearing.
If you do tear, you’ll have all your techniques to keep yourself calm during sutures.
-You’ll have the mindset to know that you controlled what you could, and let go of what you couldn’t.
-The Baby course session with physio Helen will help with your after care for tears by explaining what to do for a smooth recovery.
-The post-natal physio pelvic floor exercises will continue to help with your recovery which will help you in the short term, but also for your long term pelvic health. If you have found the info on vaginal tears and recovery helpful this week. If it has made you feel more confident for birth and prepared for the recovery. Then think how much more confident you would feel after knowing about the other 34 videos on the online birth course & 45 plus videos on the online baby course. Remember, knowledge is power 💪🏼 📷 @alexafayebirthstories #birthprep #hypnobirthing

Candle Breath - For birthing baby 🕯. You can us

Candle Breath - For birthing baby 🕯. You can use this breath so baby is born really SLOWLY… This is where you would want to breeeathe baby out. Usually this breath is only used for one contraction, maybe 2 where baby’s head is being born. Who used this blowing breath/candle breath when their baby was born? 🎂 #birthtips #antenatalclasses #antenatalclassesonline #midwifeled #midwife #midwifelife #hypnobirthing #knowledgeispower #birthprep #hypnobirthingonline #breathework #breathebabyout #breathingtechniques #breathingtechniquesforbirth #birthpreparation #antenatalclass #antenataleducation

Ok ok I get it.. it’s not the most nicest of sub

Ok ok I get it.. it’s not the most nicest of subjects to talk about and I’m sure you’re all crossing your legs as you read this 😵. But rather than focusing on how horrid this may be or worse still sticking your head in the sand, start thinking about what YOU are going to do about it!!! Because there’s lots of things that have been shown to lessen the tear, and with around 90% of first time mums having a tear that needs sutures, the more you know the more you can do to help reduce them. Knowledge is power after all. One of the biggest fears expectant mamas have about birth is vaginal tears so I thought I’d do a post on a few things that you can do to stack the odds in your favour to reduce tearing. 1. A warm compress. Having a midwife support the area with a warm compress can reduce tears.
2. Position. Pushing on your left side, all fours, kneeling or semi- recumbent have been shown to have the lesser tears. Although being semi recumbent isn’t always the best position for birth for other reasons.
3. Communication- Blow and don’t push when the midwife says. This is so baby’s head can be born SLOWLY. At a specific point when baby is just being born. Your midwife will tell you to blow …. like you’re blowing out individual candles one after another, this is for after a minute, maybe even less, and will mean that baby’s head will be born nice and slow which definitely reduces tears.
4. Hands on approach. Having a midwife support your perineum again, especially with a warm compress. Your midwife will pop her hands, on baby’s head and on your perineum as baby is being born, this has been shown to reduce tears. You can write on your birth preferences if you’d like this, or not.
5. Did I mention…S-L-O-W-L-Y
6. Perineal massage- Massaging the perineum with your thumbs (or getting your partner to do it) from 34 weeks with some oil/lube has been shown to lessen any tears in first time mums.. For second time Mums it hasn’t been shown to make a difference but tears are less likely to occur anyway in second time Mums compared to first. 📷 @brittanitaylorphotography #birthtips #midwife

Anyone see what’s wrong with this photo?? Or may

Anyone see what’s wrong with this photo?? Or maybe (for the Dads) what’s right with it! 🤣 Dads aren’t allowed to use the gas and air, although from what you can see in this photo I suspect they do when the midwife is out the room. Plus, when we come back into the room and you’re all giggly saying... “Mrs Midwife, you’re so wonderful” we do have our suspicions. Any Dads took a cheeky puff when your midwife left the room? I personally, as a Mum in labour would have fought my partner if he tried to take it away from me 🤣🤣. 📷 @badassbirthphotography

Fill in the blank… We’d love for that adjecti

Fill in the blank… We’d love for that adjective to be “excited” or “pumped” but we totally understand the reality of how you might ACTUALLY feeling deep down ❤️ We understand you, we hear you Mama and we can help you to feel all those positive feelings ❤️ xxx #Pregnancy #Birth #PositiveBirth #FirstTrimester #SecondTrimester #ThirdTrimester #YouveGotThisMama #BumpToBabyChapter

👑Control the things you can, let go of the thin

👑Control the things you can, let go of the things you can’t. 👑 One thing about birth that we need to remember is that it’s a 2 way street. You can be as upright and active in labour as you planned but there’s a chance your baby may be in a not so optimum position in your pelvis. You can be as calm and relaxed as you’d dreamt but your baby may be showing signs of distress. You may feel as fit as a fiddle but your body may be reacting to pregnancy in a different way (pre- eclampsia, obstetric choleostasis, gestational diabetes.) This is not your fault. Your body is not to blame. It doesn’t mean things are going wrong. ‘Knowledge is power’... if you make a decision to have a cesarean because your baby is showing signs of distress that’s you taking control and making a positive choice for your baby. If you go with the advice and choose induction because you have obstetric choleostasis that’s again you making a positive choice. Your birth can be just as fabulous as you ever thought even with intervention because you stayed in control of the things you could and let go of the things you couldn’t. Making choices from a place of knowledge, positivity and feeling calm rather than fear is the key to an amazing birth... so much more so than if your baby was birthed out of your vagina or your abdomen. 👑 Want to know how to make choices in your pregnancy and birth? Have techniques to keep yourself calm rather than fear? How to make sure that in all birth situations you know what to do to create a relaxed birth environment? All this is covered in midwife, Beth’s antenatal and hypnobirthing online course. All this for just £34 🌟 Link in bio. 📷 @skyehitchcock #impregnant #pregnancyannouncement #birthplan #thirdtrimester #hypnobirthing #positivebirth #birthstories #secondtrimester #20weekscan #bunintheoven #birthprep #hypnobirthingonline #supportsmallwithstace

Words from @mymidwivesuk ❤️ “My name is She

Words from @mymidwivesuk ❤️ “My name is Sheridan, I am pregnant and I am a midwife and I’m currently one of the people who NICE would recommend has induction of labour at 39 weeks.
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I am at a 3 fold increased risk of dying during or just after my pregnancy.
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But I will tell you one thing.
My blackness is not something to be “fixed”with induction.
It’s not me, or people like me, that is the issue here.
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The new draft NICE guideline offering induction of labour at 39 weeks to ALL Black and Brown women and birthing people regardless, of if they have a healthy pregnancy, as a response to the increased mortality and morbidity rates amongst Black and Brown families and their babies. .
It took me a while to summon up the emotional capacity to create a response to the NICE draft guideline. I’ve had a difficult pregnancy, I have experienced first hand the racism of our maternity system, I have been made to feel that my body is faulty, I have been ignored, my pain invalidated, my concerns not escalated. There have been scary times, and dark times.
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This recommendation is another blow. It is harmful, racist, and calls for zero accountability for the root cause of the racial disparities to be addressed. There is no evidence base for this recommendation, the statistics are a result of systemic racism; and to offer such a serious intervention based on skin colour has the potential to widen the gap between people of different ethnicities and in all honesty has a vibe that is very similar to eugenics, it’s a very damaging and dangerous slope.
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We have until the 6th of July to respond to the recommendations. Do it.
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I can speak from my postgraduate research and from personal experience that it’s not the physiology of Black or Brown people that is the risk… it is the system that is meant to care for us that puts our bodies at risk.
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Black and Brown people’s bodies are not broken. So no thank you, I don’t want your routine induction at 39 weeks because I am not broken.
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Please head over to the amazing @abueladoula to hear her speak on this. Or to @drsarawickham or @_aliciaburnett for more information. #notsonice” 📷 & caption @mymidwivesuk

The indescribable feeling of that first bite. It b

The indescribable feeling of that first bite. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about the love in that room. The love for my new born baby, the love for my partner, my midwife, for my amazing body and most amazingly, for that undervalued piece of toast. A toast to the life we have brought into the world, a toast of the very best kind. Something so simple has never ever been so good. Day to day we take toast (and our bodies) for granted, but not on this day… this day EVERYTHING is different ❤️ and we can’t wait to share this journey with you. Xx Let’s hear your appreciation for that humble toast right here 👊🏼⤵️ topping of choice? @hovisbakery or @warburtonsuk 😂😂 #toastafterbirthisthebesttoastonearth

What a capture of this mamas waters breaking 😮

What a capture of this mamas waters breaking 😮 🤩 🌊 🌊 Did anyone else have a wave of waters when they popped ?? Does everyone know that this isn’t always the case? Here’s a couple of interesting things to know about waters breaking… 1. Opposed to popular belief, waters don’t have to pop for you to be in labour. Babies can, in fact, be born with their waters still complete and still be in their sac 🏡 (it’s called en caul). So if you’re contracting regularly at home, don’t wait for your waters to go before you call your midwife/hospital. 2. Equally , your waters can break but that also doesn’t mean that you ARE in labour. Sometimes waters break and contractions don’t start (sometimes down to adrenaline). An induction would be advised after 24 hours. Antibiotics may be offered after 48hours, (edited to add, or more recently in some hospitals not if there are no other indications that antibiotics are necessary.) 3. For many babies, they are not swimming in a giant balloon of amniotic fluid. Sometimes, the membranes are very close to the baby’s head. If you then imagine that baby’s head tightly in a pelvis acting as a plug - you can see why some women second guess themselves on whether baby’s waters have gone or is it just a little bit of pee. Sometimes the waters trickle out, which NEVER happens in the movies, right?! Don’t always expect a flood gate (like in this photo) and always call in if you suspect your waters have gone. Two of my babies have been born with waters still intact when their heads were born. It was like giving birth to a little astronaut 👩‍🚀 Has anyone got an interesting story to share on their waters breaking? Check stories for more fun facts on waters breaking too 🤓 📸 @marymoonphotography.birthstory
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