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We Need to Talk About: Your First Week as a Mum
I’d read about lochia and imagined this to be like a period. Yes, if Tarantino was directing your period maybe.
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Healing After a Traumatic Birth
If I were to paraphrase, I would say it was a shitstorm from beginning to end. There was no worst part for me. It was all horrific.
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Maternal Mental Health: The Postnatal Illnesses Nobody Talks About
It came to a head after my second son was born. I was bathing him and I lost my grip slightly and yet I carried it around in my head for the rest of the day.
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The Best Laid Plans: Having an Emergency Caesarean
I felt like I had dreamed my whole life of the moment that slippery little person would emerge into the world and be placed on my skin. The reality was not quite the dream.
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Pre-eclampsia: Knowledge is Power
None of this was how I envisaged the end of my pregnancy. I wasn’t prepared. I didn’t truly understand what was going on. I had pre-eclampsia.
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A Life or Death Decision
A specialist heart centre in Leicestershire could see the end of its life-saving surgical unit for children born with heart defects. Mum Becky explains why she thinks it is crucial...