At 4:43am I felt uncomfortable from my sleep (standard), and rolled myself over from my right to left in bed. I then heard the oddest noise – no joke, the sound was what you hear as the bath or sink has almost emptied itself. I thought, gosh, I know my tummy often growls at me,…
Waters broke at 5:30am when I sat up in bed as heard my first son shouting for mummy! I called triage to let them know. They said see how you get on with contractions. New community midwives would start their shift at 8am so we were aiming for sending them after then! I was naive…
Sebastian’s Birth. November 2023 I woke up around 3.30am and felt constipated, but I didn’t consider at the time that this could be the start of labour. The feeling seemed to come and go and I was up and down, in and out of bed until 5.30am when I woke my husband. He suggested that…
This was my second pregnancy, and it was very different from my first. With Henry, I was practically Mother Earth, with minimal symptoms and an easygoing pregnancy. For both births, we decided to keep the gender a surprise, and motivator for the big day. This time around, I was far less earthly—I had nausea in…