The World of Midwifery by Katrin O'Malley
We are expecting a baby next march. Bam….I said it out loud.Our second baby. I saw this little baby via ultrasound. My/ our little baby. Only 6 cm long, but everything is visible. KRASS, a very german word…but all I could think. This will change my life, our life once again. Our privat life, my…
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I started this blog and didn’t knew where I was going. I enjoyed writing but I didn’t have a real plan with what I wanted to achieve. Since I can remember and since I offer english birth preparation classes,10 years next year,my work has always been about not needing to be fearfull about the birth…
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All weekend classes take place at the Hebammenpraxis Bauchraum, Chorinerstr.31, 10435 Berlin,Prenzlauer Berg. They start at 10.00 o’clock and finish around 17.00 o’clock. There will be tea breaks and a lunch break. My classes are partner classes, meaning the partners are present during all times.
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My personal thoughts as a midwife.A gardener earns more…
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My taste and favour for coffee is completely gone and I do pitty myself. I just bough a new, kind of expensive coffee machine and now I do not even like the stuff. A nightmare. It is not the smell, more the feeling it leaves me with. And I so not grave any like I…
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I have changed this post after some response and it will be interesting to see what the feedback is. And I do not think there is a wrong or right to it. This is written in my opinion, and opinions do change. So here is my second version. First step Finding a midwife A midwife…
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I called my midwife when I was 5 weeks pregnant and I felt pretty silly. The test had just shown I was pregnant 2 days earlier and I was contemplating if I was going nuts with wanting to call the midwife so early. I went with my instinct rather than my head and the only thing…
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If you are planning on going home straight after delivery or if you give birth at home/ at a birthing house,in my opinion one of the best things that are definitely worth a thought.
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My ideas on troubled breastfeeding.
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A dear friend of mine, who is expecting her second baby, and I were having dinner and at some point we discussed what we or now she would be doing differently with the second baby to come. I guess, everybody who is raising a child has this thought at some point. Are there things I’d do differently?…
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Is it really important to join an antenatal class? Yes, in my opinion, it is. This is my short answer. So I sat down and put a few points together which shall explain to you why it is a good idea to join an antenatal class. ( Antenatal class is the medical term for Birth…
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