Birth Story Series: My third birth - 2026, part 2
As Haylie was leaving home at 2:40 she messaged me to ask if contractions had started getting closer together, as she was trying to decide whether to call the second midwife yet or not. At that stage I told her they were mostly 3.5-4 minutes apart and lasting 50-70 seconds, although I had just had a spacing of 5 minutes, so there was still definitely some variation and irregularity. Dilation is rarely a perfectly linear process!
Birth Story Series: My third birth - 2026, part 1
At the end of pregnancy you just take one day at a time. Always knowing the birth could be any time, but also that you may still have a while to wait. That was how it was this time, in my longest pregnancy to date. But the day always comes in the end!
41 Weeks Pregnant - when baby is posterior
My baby is posterior! What does that mean? Is it a problem? Should I be worried?
Posterior simply means baby has his or her back towards mum’s spine. It is entirely normal during pregnancy, even though a position with their spine towards mum’s belly is considered more ideal approaching birth. This is because an “anterior” baby has less rotation to do during labour…
38 Weeks Pregnant - nesting, here we come!
You hear a lot about pregnant women’s “nesting instinct” as they get ready for the arrival of their baby. There are some stereotypes about the nesting mum who cleans every tiny corner of the house and polishes up things that she would never even think of needing to clean at any other time in life! I can’t say it’s hit me to that extreme, but I have certainly gone all in on the preparations I still wanted to make for baby’s arrival and for postpartum. This has looked like…