Back in October 2006 - have I really been a doula all this time? I noted with interest in this blog a midwife discussing the phenomenon of the cervix "weeping" a few days (5-7) before going into labour.
Well whaddyaknow, my current birth client seems to have had that exact experience last night, at 38 weeks exactly. It was so noticeable, with a distinct "gush" of clear fluid, that she thought it might be her waters breaking and we were on the QV all night.
A childbirth educator and doula's scrapbook of birth wisdom, information, media links, research, birth stories - and some of the truly daft things people say and write about birth and babies. Sarah Johnson is a doula and HypnoBirthing practitioner in London, UK. She is also a journalist and author
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