Baby due over the Platinum Jubilee long weekend 2 - 6 June? What are your chances of baby arriving on its EDD? Actually only 5% of 1st babies do with 81% go past that. So, enjoy your celebrations - the distraction, laughter and street dancing will all shorten your...
1st photo of Princess Elizabeth with her mother the Duchess of York. Princess Elizabeth was born 96 years ago in her maternal grandparents London home. Yes, the then Duchess of York had a home birth! Pain relief available was chloroform which made the mother at least...
Aug 2021. Jo's identical twins arrive after a 45 minute labour May 2022. Nine months old and sharing the joy https://birth-wise.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Baby-twins-at-9-months-old.mov Jackie Whitford
Up until the 1960s around 40% of births were home births – you’ve seen Call the Midwife! From the 1960s onwards, community midwifery services were run down and nearly all babies were born in hospital as births started to become medicalised. In the last 20 years home...