Step by step instructions to do perineal massage 

What sort of monitoring should you have in labour? A look at pinnards, dopplers, CTG, FSC and Telemetry monitoring.

Information and resources for women diagnosed with GBS

Things moving slowly? Stopping and starting? What to do?

How do you decide what position to be in during labour?

If you’ve had a very quick birth before (or even if you haven’t), this post has some helpful ideas of how you might prepare for a quicker than expected labour.

Read this any time of the year, about how to help bring labour on!

I’ve spoken before about the words I’d love to ban using around birth and pregnancy (namely ‘allowed’ and ‘have to’), but this one always gets me! 

Hands up anyone who’s been told their baby is ‘too big’ so they ‘have’ to be induced? I want to share a direct quote from the NICE guidelines (that should be followed by all hospitals) to clear this up!

One of the biggest fears of women about to give birth is tearing. Here are TONS of tips of how to reduce the chances or severity of tearing in birth.