Birth Diaries

'I Gave Birth In The Bath Alone. It Was Easy'

Corinne Card was in the bath when she reached down and felt what she thought was her baby's head...
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'I Had My Waters Broken And Went Into Shock'

Kat Clark recalls how she went from feeling barely anything to experiencing racehorse surges: "It felt like I’d stolen a Ferrari and gone from 0-100 in five seconds without any warm-up."
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'I Tested Positive During Labour' – 9 Pandemic Birth Stories

Nine women tell HuffPost UK what it was like to give birth during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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'I Spent 4 Hours In A Birthing Pool Breathing, And Don't Remember A Thing'

Birth Diaries: "My midwife and I were holding hands doing squats together. It was like a workout!"
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'I Was Too Scared To Look At My Daughter When I Gave Birth To Her'

Birth Diaries: "When my daughter came out, I was exhausted. I felt like I was having an out of body experience."
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I've Delivered Babies For 10 Years. But Giving Birth Myself Was Surreal

Birth Diaries: "I’ve been in midwifery for over a decade, so I’ve seen a lot. Beautiful births, peaceful births at home, all the way to very traumatic births."
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'My Baby Was So High Up, She Got Stuck In My Pelvis'

Birth Diaries: 'It’s exactly what I didn’t want, but the whole team was so calm and reassuring. I had an all-female team in theatre!'
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'I Had Two Completely Different Births In The Space Of 20 Minutes'

Birth Diaries: 'I went into labour early – at six months, 27 weeks and four days to be precise.'
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'My Waters Didn't Break. That's Where Things Started To Go Wrong'

Birth Diaries: "I had a pill up my bum, three drips from each arm, and my adrenaline was high."
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'My Painful Headache After Giving Birth Was Actually A Spinal Bleed'

Birth Diaries: "My head was killing me. I’d stayed in hospital that night and it was unbearable the next day."
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