There is no alternative? Don't you believe it...
I am - finally - properly back to work this week. I have written a review of a book about maternity activism for AIMS (look out for it in...
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Charlotte Edun
- Jun 28, 2022
- 4 min
The repeal of Roe vs Wade: an urgent call to return to the fundamentals of women's right
For most of the last 2 years I’ve been thinking about, reading about, and interrogating the concepts of choice and control in relation to...
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Charlotte Edun
- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
Should your birth preferences really be the 'cherry on the birthing cake'?
The pandemic really laid bare the role that 'woman centered care' plays in the NHS - the institution that most of us have our babies in....
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Charlotte Edun
- Mar 29, 2021
- 5 min
Take back your glorious body
At Edun Towers March began – as it did for many mothers – with an excited countdown towards the return to school. March 8th made my...
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Charlotte Edun
- Dec 7, 2020
- 6 min
Why is it so hard to believe birth will be ok?
2020 is a shitstorm, so I’m going to offer you the chance to take a moment and rewind to 2010. It was a simpler time. Fewer pandemics,...
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Charlotte Edun
- Apr 7, 2020
- 3 min
Can Hypnobirthing help me during the Coronavirus pandemic?
Right. Let’s be honest. If you’re due to have your baby any time before June, the last few weeks have been dreadful. In fact, if you’re due
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Charlotte Edun
- Mar 24, 2020
- 3 min
3 Quick Ways to Alleviate Your Anxiety this Week.
I want to reassure you that while this is indeed the most extreme health crisis we're witnessed in our lifetimes, Covid does not trump your
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Charlotte Edun
- Oct 10, 2019
- 4 min
Why 'I wish I'd met you before I had my children...' means more than you think it might.
It's not just new mothers of tiny babies, with the agonies of birth fresh in their minds. I'm equally likely to hear it from women who are w
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Charlotte Edun
- Oct 2, 2019
- 3 min
Tess's story of Ada's birth
What a wild ride, getting exactly what I wanted but with the exact opposite route I wanted to take.
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Charlotte Edun
- Aug 22, 2019
- 3 min
How this placenta prompted some honesty.
So you don't have to eat it. You don't have to encapsulate it. You don't have to bury it, or paint with it or photograph it. But please. Don
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