All posts tagged: Induction

Labour & Birth Challenges

An online birth workshop to provide effective birth preparation with a foundation of robust knowledge, strategies and skills you can rely on. This is about focusing on the issues that could impact your labour and birth decisions, how you can manage these challenges and what your options are: Position of your baby A long labour Feeling overwhelmed A fast labour Being Induced With resources to read and use at home. You will benefit from working with an experienced birth practitioner to provide you with essential information and options and the opportunity to ask questions as you prepare well for the birth of your baby. In addition, you will also have the opportunity to:*develop your own birth plan with questions and strategies*think about what you might need and what you can do*know what questions to ask*know more about potential challenges and how to manage them*have resources to reflect on the birth of your baby The online birth workshops feature as part of membership to the Mother Cuppa Community… The birth workshops run over Zoom and we …

induction tips

12 ways to make a difference to your induction of labour

Induction tips are essential because they encourage you to focus on and think about what could make a difference to you. Induction needs to be prepared for in a slightly different way to a spontaneous labour, as there a few different things to consider and your options may change. Induction can be needed for a number of reasons: for conditions such as gestational diabetes or obstetric cholestasis or because a baby becomes ‘overdue’. Induction currently sits at about 32% so its a common intervention which can be controversial and which women do choose to decline depending on why it is suggested. I work with a lot of new mums so conversation about birth is frequent – induction can work well for some women, their body just needs a little encouragement to get going but, for others, it is a slog, trying to convince their body to do something it just isn’t quite ready for. Using these induction tips… The reality is that induction can be a tough process but knowing what to expect and how …