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I struggled to read that without getting mad. I am currently 27 weeks pregnant and have not had one doctors appointment, I am planning a free birth so I can just close out the noise and listen to my intuition. If I need them, I know where they are. My first pregnancy the dating scan was way out. I told them it was impossible that I conceived at that time because my partner and I were a few thousand miles apart. I was travelling in India alone. They said their technology was rarely wrong and refused to change the date. They took their machines calculations over my own knowledge which of course lead to pressure and coercion to be induced when I didnt need it. I refused.

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Oooo so much came to mind whilst reading this - all currently on my radar... I recently read a novel about a ‘man midwife’ in 19th century Edinburgh - gruesome and a mix of obstetricians version of history and midwives but a good story - The Way of all Flesh by (husband and wife pseudonym) Ambrose Parry - husband is writer wife doctor (I think) - anyway - a book that holds truth about allopathic medicine that is fabulous is Green Pharmacy by Barbara Griggs. And... the whole issue of ‘all that matters is a healthy baby’ once again reinforced by another celebrity birth (Richard and Judy’s daughter) in OK magazine (I only stumbled on on YouTube) - struck home with me as I was once on Richard and Judy’s show as an Independent Midwife and bless them they were so on the side of midwives and natural birth - the irony of their granddaughter’s birth a CS. As for intuition (obviously it’s real...IMO) I’ve been reading about Morphic Resonance from Rupert Sheldrake - which isn’t that far from the idea of intuition - but as a man and a scientist is all about theories and research...;) oh - and I have next to me a book I’m reviewing - written by Robbie Davis-Floyd (she’s written so many fabulous anthropology books on birth) but she actually wrote ‘Intuition: the inside story’ - how’s that for a bit of synchronicity? I’m enjoying your blog Milli - I guess that’s obvious...

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