Which areas of Luton and Dunstable have the most home births? Three of my babies were born at home with midwives from Luton and Dunstable Hospital. This picture is the first of those. I’ve also been at lots of home births in the area as a doula. I have always found the community midwives to be very supportive of home birth, with the odd exception.

The movie Hamnet has three births: in the woods, on hands and knees, and on a birth stool. Here I review how these reflect on what it was like to give birth in 16th century Britain, and what the movie reflects our modern perspectives of childbirth.

This is a question I have just had in my inbox. And the short answer is yes! A lot of people think it is not possible, including...

It's my #4's 16th birthday. Here's his birth story. I was fed up. It was my due date. All of my previous three babies had come well before their EDD. I was hot. It was a gorgeous August day. The birth pool had been up for three weeks. It was a rigid pool that had to be bolted together. For the past three weeks I had several hours of surges every day, so we had kept it up. I thought, "Sod it! It's hot; let's all get in the pool." So I filled the pool and the children and I do