Stories

Stories provide a way to share experience and discuss some of the day-to-day realities of practice. In the 'My experience' pages you will find six of positive birth stories for you to consider and debate with colleagues. These stories were collected from midwives to represent some of the issues we face when practising normal birth.

Most importantly we are always looking for new stories so that our knowledge and skills can be shared. Please send us any stories that you have so your experience can help others.

We do link the topics or issues raised through the stories with research or articles and some of those wou will either find the link in the end of the story or on the research or practice section.

This can guide us to resource research or evidence you think is relevant to normal birth practice.

Have a look if you can relate to any of the stories currently available.

On the crest of a wave She came in, in quite advanced labour, saying that she was going to practise yoga and didn't want to be disturbed.
Where's the doctor? Her previous three children had been delivered in the United States. And this one would have, too, had her labour not started early while she was visiting relatives in this country.
Do as you would be done by The midwife insisted the baby was breech. However the obstetrician would not accept this judgment, drawn from many years of experience.
If at first... I was looking after a woman who was having her first child. I'd attended her right from the beginning of her pregnancy...
Taxi for North End Road It had been a long and exhausting labour, slowed even more by the effects of the epidural.
Sixteenth floor On the face of it, it wasn't an ideal place for a homebirth. Mari lived on the sixteenth floor of a tower block.

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