Alison Brown has been a midwife for around 17 years. Prior to this, she was a nanny and a nurse.
Alison loves working in all areas of midwifery, from shifts on the labour ward to antenatal assessment and helping woman breastfeed. Her areas of expertise lie in postnatal care, antenatal care, breastfeeding and all aspects of infant feeding.
Alison has three children, Imogen, Henry and William, and she had them all at home.
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Plenty of women go on to have natural births after a c-section and plenty have repeat caesareans. It all depends on you, your Obstetrician who will probably see you a few times during your antenatal checks and your midwife. Once you fell pregnant and see your midwife for the booking-in visit, mention your desire to have another c-section. Each maternity unit will have different policies and you will be advised on what yours is. Most maternity units will try to accommodate mum's wishes especially if they are based on a bad experience with a previous birth.
I have heard there are a few ways to bring on labour...
I am 37 weeks pregnant and having been having contractions lately, both painful and non painful.. also get a feeling like soemone is prodding pins into my pelvis.. :-S
me and my bf tried having sex the other day but it didnt do anything.. and i read pineapple can help soften the cervix, so i just ate a whole pineapple.. and am starting to get more painful contractions.. and my back is aching!
Just wondered if any of these methods have worked for anyone else???
I want my baby here now!!!! im so impatient!
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Hiya,just thought i'd let you all know that yesterday my baby girl Madison Hope was born at 2:10am!! weighing in at a tiny 3lb 10oz!! she is perfect,but is in the special care baby unit,she doing very well and breathin on her own,taking 3 hourly feeds from a bottle as my milk hasn't come in yet!
My waters broke wednesday night at 10:45pm,3 and half hours later,madison popped out with only the help of gas and air - didn't get my planned c-section after all!!
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Im really worried about peeing and pooing during labour. I was horrified when my fiance told me this happens! Does this always happen and is there any way of preventing it?! x
last night I was at my aunties and I felt like I was peeing myself slightly but I couldn't control it, it was only a little bit though so I thought I'd better go to the toilet and c what it was, when I looked at my underwear they were a bit wet, there wasn't loads there just 2 wet patches I smelt it to see if it was urine but it deffo wasn't I haven't had anything since though so I thought I'd phone my midwife this morning and tell her to c what she says, she said if it was my waters they would keep breaking constantly and my underwear would be soaking she said it cant just start, then a little bit then a little bit later its all at once and she said it was probably urine but it didn't even smell, I know she is a midwife and knows best but it just doesn't seem right to me lol.
Hi Ladies, Your help please. Im currently 35+1 weeks. All my pregnancy I've being toying with the idea of breastfeeding. And with only a few weeks to go I'm still not decided. My mum and sister never breastfed. And I honestly know no one who has brestfed successfully. Every day I swing between being really positive and focused about the experience and then negative and not wanting to even try it. Just wondering could you give me the cold hard facts. Most books I read on breastfeeding are very one sided. So could you all if you don't mind give me your experiences of your time choosing to breast or bottle feed. Lola x
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