Hand Mirror

A hand mirror is definately a item i would seriously recomend you putting in your hospital bag when preparing for your birth, not to apply your make up as you will probably not care about doing this but to actually be able to see your baby being born. I used one with my daughter and it was the best thing ever to be able to see my babys head appear at the exit of the birth canal, to watch her little head as she was on her way out, see her hair and her little scrunched up face and most funny of all was at this point my contraction stopped and back in her little head went untill i could not see her face any more with the next contraction her head came out ...

A hand mirror is also a good thing to take if you are having a planned caesarean. I found that I could not see my incision because my stomach was still so big it was in the way. The midwife had told me to take off the adhesive strips (plasters) on it after getting out of the shower but there was no way I was doing that unless I could see where they were. Also I was somewhat curious to know how the scar was looking and how well it was healing. ...

They have babies like shelling peas in my family you know. They have short, relatively pain-free labours you know. When I first got pregnant they all told me what lucky genes I have. It would be easy, giving birth - just like shelling peas. I’ve never shelled any peas – mine are ‘just as fresh as when the pod went pop’, thank you very much. I’m lazy. I don’t like work or exercise or anything nasty like that either, thank you very much. Quite enough activity went into getting pregnant in the first place, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Still, I felt reasonably confident. What with my lucky genes and the pain relief available I thought ...