EXPERIENCE

As a doula and a mother I have encountered the following during pregnancy and birth:

Pregnancy:

· High blood pressure/ Severe Pre-eclampsia
· Gestational Diabetes
· Group B Strep
· Premature labour (1 stopped naturally the other with treatment)
· Premature Rupture of Membranes
· Fibroids
· Endometriosis

Labour:

· Induction
· Occiput Posterior Presentation ‘Back Labour’
· Foetal Blood Sampling
· Birth Pool/Bath for pain relief
· Natal Hypnotherapy (similar to Hypno-birthing)
· Epidural
· Augmentation (with oxytocin drip)
· Successful turn around in ‘Failure to Progress’(dilation)

Birth:

· Completely Natural Physiological Birth
· Water-birth
· VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean)
· Elective and Emergency Caesarean Section
· Physiological and Managed Third Stage
· Forceps & Ventouse
· Shoulder Dystocia

Hospitals:

· Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Birthing Unit & Labour Ward
· Edgware Birth Centre
· Ealing Hospital
· Kingston, Labour Ward and Birth Centre
· Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Labour Ward & Birth Centre
· St Mary’s – Lindo Wing, Private Patients Wing
· St Thomas’s Hospital
· Tooting Birth Centre