Twins – and by far the best birth experience!

April 3, 2018 By

On Saturday 10th March 18 I woke up at 6.45 am having a few niggly pains. I asked hubby to take the girls downstairs so I could have time alone to see what came of them. I was 40+8 and hour later I knew this was definitely labour. Hubby took kids to grandmas and I […]

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Dedicated, professional and compassionate

August 21, 2017 By
Beanie

Almost exactly a year since I met the Yorkshire Storks, I am the proud parent of an 8 1/2 month old who is crawling at speed, still breastfeeding (finally cracked it at 20 weeks and now pain free – hurrah), has six teeth, and isn’t even beginning to think about sleeping through the night. Although […]

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My lucky number 3

October 7, 2016 By

My third pregnancy. I remember the day I found out about you. I made daddy go down to the shop below the flat and buy a test! I didn’t need to really, I knew. I showed it to Daddy, I looked into his eyes and the reality covered me. I cried. Not because I didn’t […]

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My HBAC birth after a preemie!

August 28, 2016 By
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Originally Posted by Sarah on her blog I’m absolutely over the moon to be able to share with you my birth story for my second baby, beautiful Freddie, who was born on a beautiful and warm Thursday evening in June. A month ago to be exact: Thursday 9th June 2016 @ 8:32pm. According to my dating […]

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More like family members than midwives

August 24, 2016 By

When we became pregnant with our second baby, we wanted to have a non-medicalised homebirth. We explored local NHS options but didn’t feel confident that our birth wishes would be supported, so we contacted Yorkshire Storks. From the initial meeting we had with the team we felt perfectly at ease with the Storks team, and […]

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