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Courtney with theatre gown and cap, ECG pads, and a blood pressure cuff holding her newborn baby Adam Gordon

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Positive C-Section Birth Story

My baby boy Adam Gordon was born via a scheduled c-section. He was breech and I feel like I tried everything to flip him, including yoga, handstands in the lake, accupuncture, and chiropractic. I went in for an ECV around 36 weeks and it was unsafe to try as his bum was very low in [...]

Emma Gasking

Founder of The Parent Education Company

3 minutes

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Dave’s Birth Story

As a male this situation is very passive (in my opinion) as you are there to support your partner as she brings your child into the world that she carried for both of you for so long. During this time, you feel hopeless, useless, wrong, incompetent… Need I go on? LOL. For my daughter’s mother [...]

Emma Gasking

Founder of The Parent Education Company

10 mins

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Charlotte’s Birth Story

I had the birth I always dreamt of, and this is my story… I made very clear throughout my pregnancy that I wanted to have as natural a birth as possible. After all, this is what my body was made to do; I grew my baby without intervention, why should her journey into the world [...]

Emma Gasking

Founder of The Parent Education Company

5 mins

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