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Liz: Second Birth, Positive NHS Birth Centre Water Birth, Midwife Led Unit, Fast Labour, Gas and Air, No Vaginal Examinations, Fetal Ejection Reflex, No Tear After Second Degree Tear, Subchorionic Haematoma, Postnatal Anxiety
In today's episode Liz is back to share the birth of her daughter at her local NHS birth centre. After two and a half years of trying for her son, she went into her second pregnancy thinking what will be will be, and fell pregnant in six months with exactly the same due date as her son. A subchorionic haematoma caused big bleeds at six and nine weeks again, but it had gone by 12 weeks and she stayed low risk.
Liz was a candidate for a home birth, but with a toddler at home she chose the midwife led unit. Her birth plan said no just in case cannula and no continuous monitoring. At 40+2 her…
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