Pregnant, Now What? How To Prepare For Birth!
Tips for preparing for birth, from choosing a hospital to be mentally ready.
Midwife Tips: Pre Labour/Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM)
The moment your waters break is usually a signal for women that they will get to meet their baby soon. But sometimes baby doesn’t come straight away or it happens before full term. Our midwife, Caroline May, explains what PROM and PPROM are, and what you can expect if you experience it.
Does a breech birth mean a caesarean? Midwife tips
Finding out your baby is in a breech position can be frightening and, for some women, disappointing as it means they have to have a caesarean delivery – or do they? Midwife Caroline May explains why many breech babies are delivered by caesar and whether vaginal delivery can remain as one of your options.
Midwife Tips: Breech babies
Babies are meant to turn themselves head down in the latter part of a pregnancy, but not all do with approximately 4-5% staying upright. Midwife Caroline May discusses some of the options available for mums to encourage their breech bub to turn.
Midwife Tips: Bringing on Labour At Home
One of the most common questions asked on the Baby Hints and Tips Facebook page concerns how to bring on labour, and advice given usually ranges from sex and nipple stimulation to bouncing on a fit ball, castor oil and hot curries. The question is however, is there any evidence that any of these things actually work?
Home birth – midwife tips
Home birth has always been a contentious issue in Australia, largely fuelled by the media and the medical profession. The biggest fears surrounding home birth usually boil down to one question, is it safe?
Medically inducing labour – midwife tips
There are many questions related to induction of labour but for this issue I will concentrate on medical ways of inducing.
Midwife Tips: Co-Sleeping
An introduction to co-sleeping, and why it isn’t necessarily ‘bed sharing’.
Midwife Tips: Choosing where to give Birth
When it comes to choosing where to birth your baby there are many things to think about and it can be quite overwhelming, but choosing the right place for you can have an enormous impact on your pregnancy, birthing and post partum experience and it is not quite as simple as public vs private.
Breastfeeding tips
Breastfeeding is natural so it should be easy right? For some women it does come very naturally but for the majority it is a skill that needs to be learned. Not so much by the baby as it is instinctive to them, but by the mother.
Preparing for labour
Midwife Caroline May shares her top five tips for not only surviving, but getting the most out of your labour experience (for you and bub).