Anna's New Parent Pages

Pregnancy and Birth

"Birth is an everyday miracle."

Articles on my personal experience of pregnancy, planning a birth and giving birth, plus coping with severe newborn jaundice.

Contents

  • Asthma in pregnancy:
    Planning for your birth and some birth stories
  • Planning your birth:
  • How to write a birth plan:
    issues to think about when writing a birthplan.
  • Example birth plan:
    my actual birth plan written before the birth of my second child.
  • My birth stories:
  • Birth of Emma:
    a low-tech hospital birth of our first child.
  • Birth of Alice:
    an easy home-birth of our second child.
  • Birth of Sam:
    another home-birth and our last child.
  • Emergency labour bag:
    What to pack "just in case".
  • A jaundiced newborn:
    The story of what happened when our second child was found to be severely jaundiced a week after birth.
  • Pregnancy, Birth & Breastfeeding Resources
    Links and recommended reading.

  • Compiled by Anna Hayward (c) 1996.
    Disclaimer: This document has not been compiled by a medical professional. Any opinions expressed are personal and should not be construed as medical advice. I am not a representative of any of the companies discussed, nor do I receive any form of commission.