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Language and words affect expecting women so much so that it affects the way their labour and birth.Pregnant women are exposed to many stories and many opinions throughout their whole pregnancy.Unfortunately most of what women hear are the horror stories. The horror stories are seen on social media, negative birth stories re-told by family, friends and work colleagues. Perhaps the obstetiric …

Ash is a:First time Mum• Planned water birth at home through public hospital Midwifery Group Practice program• IVF/ICSI pregnancy• Used hypnobirthing techniques• Unplanned public hospital admission (instrumental and medicated delivery)• Didn't know sex of baby before birth• Two midwifery students present (one known to/assigned to me; the other was with my midwife that day and I allowed them to com …

We had such a lovely experience with the water birth of our second son. With quite a short labour this time around (just under 4hrs), it was quite intense! Once we realised how quickly things were progressing, my husband raced to fill the birth pool and it was such a beautiful sensation to be able to clamber in and calmly birth our baby under the comforting warm water just like we'd hoped, right …

Labour TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) machines are supportive during labour for several reasons. The main reason i find that women wish to use them is because they want to have a natural vaginal delivery. TENS machine is a main pain relief tool in labour, supporting women to avoid pharmaceutical intervention which often leads to the cascade of interventions.Reason to use a TENS …

Last year when I delivered my 3rd bub, I had to get induced (yay). I had the balloon inserted at 3pm the day before.From then until 11pm I was contracting every 5-7 minutes until the balloon finally fell out which meant it was time to go to the hospital! Arrived at the ward around 5am, started the induction straight away & the contractions were hitting real hard! But thank goodness for the tens ma …