Heartbeats Birth & Beyond

13/10/2023

Offered an induction of labour?
Here is a great resource on questions to ask and what to do with the answers given.

What are the best questions to ask if you're offered induction of labour?

As a midwife who has researched and written about induction of labour for more than two decades, I get asked that quite a bit.

Especially as I have a fundamental belief that there is no one 'right' path for everyone.

Twenty years before anyone hashtagged , I was promoting that very idea to women and families.

One size doesn't fit all.

You need to decide what's right for you.

And in order to do that, you might need to ask some questions.

So I have put together this guide to the five best questions that you can ask in order to get more information and make the decisions that are right for you.

I'm also going to tell you what can you learn from the answers you are given.

You can find my blog post at https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/five-questions-to-ask-if-youre-offered-induction-of-labour/

There's a link to my website in my bio as well.

I hope you'll find it useful.

03/08/2023

Love this from my fellow Calmbirth colleague. It’s so true.

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•y o u r • b i r t h • y o u r • c h o i c e •⁣
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Or worse…allowing someone else to convince ourselves we can’t give birth.

If there are two important things to understand with child birth first it’s the power of the mind and equally the power of the body.

Understand birth - be proactive, be educated and become empowered. Trust and surrender to your bodies natural processes.⁣
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26/07/2023

Dr Sara Wickham shares and unpacks four commonly-seen vitamin K myths, explaining why some information sources have got it wrong.

28/10/2022