Photographer shares intimate images of labor to ‘demystify’ experience | Mail Online
This article shows some beautiful photos of a home birth, showing how labour can be
28
Oct
Monthly Archives: October 2013
24
Oct
Read all about it! Dad books and preparing for fatherhood | Dad’s the way I like it
Really interesting blog by a dad giving his thoughts on pregnancy books
Read all about it! Dad books and preparing for fatherhood | Dad’s the way I like it.
23
Oct
Five things I wish I’d known before I became a dad
Really nice article about becoming a new dad on the website of a great charity supporting families
Care For The Family | New parents | Five things I wish I’d known before I became a dad.
15
Oct
Women Who Fear Childbirth Spend More Time in Labor | TIME.com
Interesting research on the effect of fear on labour – many thanks to Marcie for passing on and for her comment “ your classes were amazing and helped no end not to have the fear! Cannot recommend enough.”
Why Women Who Fear Childbirth Spend More Time in Labor | TIME.com.
02
Oct
Fathers keep out!
I know that not everyone will have access to it but there is a great article by Caroline Flint in the Oct Practising Midwife. Couple of quotes ” First labour is one of the longest and most demanding experiences a couple may ever share… During this intense period the father is usually physically very close, he strokes the labouring woman, he whispers encouragement into her ear, supports her when she needs to walk to the loo and helps her when she gets there, holds her, soothes her, kisses her and is generally the other half of her body.” “… those hospitals who do allow men to take up residence in their postnatal wards find them very helpful, … Men can help their partners to the loo, can pick up and their baby to her, make her a cup of tea, even make the midwives a cup of tea. A man around the house (or postnatal ward) can be invaluable … feeling really useful to his partner, being given time to bond (fall in love) with his baby, being treated as pat of the team by the midwives can do nothing but good.”