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Have you given birth to a big baby?
We would love to publish your birth story, the more positive the better! please send your story, along with a photograph if possible to editor@bigbaby.org.uk
We would love to publish your birth story, the more positive the better! please send your story, along with a photograph if possible to editor@bigbaby.org.uk
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| About this website This website is the baby of Sarah Ockwell-Smith. Sarah is a mother of four from Essex, UK. In 2002, when pregnant with her first child, Sarah, never imagined her baby would be big. She was only 7lb herself at birth, wore a size 12 and was only 5ft 1 "tall". Her son Sebastian then surprised everybody when he was born weighing 10lbs (4.54kg). Her second son Flynn followed in 2003, induced because of pre-eclampsia (and possibly therefore "growth restricted"), Flynn narrowly missed the Macrosomia label by 3ozs, weighing only 9lb 12oz, both boys were born in hospital with labour augmentation (syntocinon) and epidurals, it was presumed their difficult births were because of their size making them "difficult to birth". In 2005 Sarah gave birth to another little boy, Rafferty (pictured above 2 minutes after his birth). Rafferty was born at home in a four hour, drug free labour, he weighed 11lb 3oz. In 2007, baby Violet was born, she weighed 11lbs (5kg) like her brother she was born at home in less than hour, with no drugs and no stitches either. Perhaps big babies aren't so hard to give birth to after all? Since the birth of her children Sarah has been interviewed for numerous national newspapers and magazines including The Times, The Guardian, Pregnancy & Birth, Mother & Baby, The Green Parent, Prima Baby and many more, she is always happy to speak to the media on the topic of big babies and her own birth stories, with one proviso - that she can help to set the record straight concerning the "big baby = difficult birth" theory perpetuated so much. Sarah is passionate about reducing society's fear of "big babies" and is especially annoyed by the freakshow aspect seen on recent television programmes relating to macrosomia. Sarah is also a doula & HypnoBirthing practitioner and is extremely interested in natural childbirth. She believes that all women have the innate ability to birth their babies - no matter their size - and through this website she hopes to be able to help the women of the UK who find themselves in the position she found herself in back in 2002.  http://www.bigbaby.org.uk/ is still in its infancy, it is your site - do you have a story or any information which you feel should be on this site? if so please email editor@bigbaby.org.uk |
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