Amber Marshall defends bigger mums on Daybreak vs Liz Fraser ‘one of the UK’s best known and respected parenting writers and broadcasters‘ (her PR, not our assessment of her). https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/daybreak/21-05-2013 (8:10am, or 1:51:25 through the iPlayer clip) Clearly a 10 minute slot isn’t anywhere near enough to discuss the issues posed by the British Nutrition
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Shoulder dystocia is a popular reason given for restricting the choices in how and where we give birth as bigger women. But is this fair? The potential consequences aren’t great, and as bigger mums we’re told that we have a 3 or 4 times greater risk. But a look at the evidence, as usual, is
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Fair play to Angelina Jolie. She has divulged the news that she decided to have a double mastectomy in order to protect herself (and her family) from the estimated 87% risk of her developing breast cancer due to a faulty gene. Of course, she could probably have kept this quiet, but says she has gone
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Occasionally, the question arises; “Is it selfish to focus on YOUR birth experience?”. What prompted my musing on this today was the following article on an American site. ***(Update 2023) Sadly the website no longer exists. But the text remains, thanks to The Wayback Machine, and it’s still relevant! It makes some good, thought provoking
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