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Also known as breast-feeding I usually drone on about getting your baby out. Preferably loudly expressing its utter disdain about the indignity of being born. If they can voice their objection, they are hale and hearty! Once the placenta is delivered, once our baby has recovered from the shock of birth, and following a golden…
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But sometimes the baby has other plans I asked Chatgpt my first question yesterday. Because I thought I was getting a bit institutionalised in my old age. See, I used to be a home birth midwife. Now I’m a hospital one. And much as I love a water birth on our Midwifery Led Unit, I’m…
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How do we choose our kids’ names? meaning, significance, etymology, etc. I’m reading a really great book. It’s called The Names, by Florence Knapp. In a nutshell, it’s about how the life of a child unfurls in three different realities in which the one variable is his name. You should read it. It got me…
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Everything you never realised you really wanted to know… I give blood regularly. As a midwife, I’ve seen how quickly and devastatingly a woman can lose half her circulating volume. Plus I have great veins which you can see from space, and iron levels so good it’s amazing I can ever get through airport security…
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It’s not me, it’s the computer gremlins I consider myself a mostly reasonable and rational person. I don’t have a problem living with my black cat, she’s crossed my path a gazillion times; I’ve walked under many ladders without fear of mishap; I’ve sat at tables of 13 without incurring catastrophes; I have never felt the…
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How depleted oestrogen levels allow us to reset unattainably high Christmas standards to something more achievable It’s December. Again. Christmas is around the corner and my ageing, menopausal brain is slowly and unwillingly kicking into seasonal action. Luckily years of practice and a tried-and-tested spreadsheet means I’ll be ok. I feel kinda smug because I…
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Here’s what you actually need to know… From a midwife who has your back. It has ever been the case that women have been watched, judged, and found wanting. But it’s next level big-brothering for pregnant women. Look, I know it mostly comes from a good place. Because we care. And it’s true that when…
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Become good friends Halloween just came and went! Firstborn Son and Middle Child are too old for trick-or-treating but Only Daughter is not. We spent a companiable evening gutting and carving five pumpkins the night before. On the day, she applied ghoulish face paint and went around the neighbourhood begging for sweets. I illuminated our…
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I just wrote a new post for my blog, Midwifemotherme.com I’m a French mid-life, midwife, brought up in London, mother to three kids (affectionately known in my posts as Firstborn Son, Middle Child, and Only Daughter) I try to make sense of the world drawing on my 25 years of midwifery and motherhood. I definitely…
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