When you have a new baby, you’re sent home from hospital with a stack of leaflets and booklets to read on everything from exercising your pelvic floor, to breastfeeding advice, to what temperature your baby’s room should be at night. I diligently read through most of these and there was one that really stuck in […]

A big part of me doesn’t want to write this post, but another part of me is coaxing me on, telling me it’s an important event in Little I’s life that I need to document, before the raw memories fade. Maybe I should begin with the biggest lesson we are taking away from this incredibly […]

Every mother-to-be, in England and Wales, will soon be given the right to have her baby by caesarean section on the NHS, even if there is no medical need. Under new guidelines recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), women will be given the right to choose whether they would prefer […]