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 20, 2022
- 7 min
3 problems with birth plans (and why you should write one anyway)
Why do birth plans have such a bad reputation, and why do we keep writing them?
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Charlotte Edun
- Jun 29, 2021
- 4 min
6 things I loved about this week’s birth
I’m a doula not because I’m a birth junkie, and not because I’m soppy about babies. I’m a doula because birth has the potential to be...
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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
- Sep 5, 2019
- 1 min
Why the Hypno doesn't Help
Honestly. I LOVE hypnobirthing - it's a fantastic tool.... However, it can feel a bit disempowering when you have Every Damn Thing You Need.
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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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Charlotte Edun
- Aug 13, 2019
- 3 min
What I think about birth should have NO effect on you at all!
This SHOULD be tub-thumping, political stuff. Context is King, and the current context for birth is pretty dire, unless you take matters int
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