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Maternity Matters – My Birth Story
Today, for the first time, I published my birth story on our new site, Maternity Matters. I’d like to post it here as this is my personal blog and it just feels right to have a record of it along with...
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Maternity Matters Newsletter
It’s been a week since Susanne and I launched Maternity Matters and I don’t think we could have asked for a better response than the one we’ve had. We’re overwhelmed with the comments, tweets and...
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Through my work with Maternity Matters and involvement with the Birth Trauma Association, I read a lot of stuff by women who’ve suffered similar trauma and disappointment to what my family went through...
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Sometimes, Breast Is NOT Always Best
I promised myself I wasn’t going to chime in on this debate, it’s one of those subjects on which people will never agree and I completely respect the right of any woman to make the decision she wants...
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A Healing Birth
If you’ve read Sausage’s birth story before, you’ll know that it didn’t go at all to plan. The whole thing was a disaster, right up until the surgeon pulled her from my body in under a minute, saving...
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The Return of Maternity Matters
When I started blogging in the Autumn of 2010, a large part of my need to get my thoughts out of my head was because of the birth trauma I’d suffered whilst having Sausage in August 2008. Skip forward...
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Maternity Matters Linky – Week One
So, here it is, the first ever #MaternityMatters link up and I couldn’t be more excited about it! Susanne and I cannot wait to read all of your posts and shared articles, as well as helping and...
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#MaternityMatters – Week Two
It’s a fortnight since Susanne and I launched the Maternity Matters linky and we had some absolutely amazing posts linked up in that time. Reading about everyone’s experiences reminds us exactly why we...
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Maternity Matters Linky Week 3 – #MaternityMatters
One thing that Susanne and I set out to do when we started Maternity Matters was give parents a voice, regardless of how difficult the subject they’re talking about might seem, which is why in the past...
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Maternity Matters Week 4 #maternitymatters
I can’t quite believe this is the fourth Maternity Matters linky already! We really hope you’re enjoying the process of sharing and reading so many great posts as much as we are. Seeing how pregnancy...
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