Debbie Garrod

Midwife, childbirth educator, researcher, baker, walker, openwater swimmer, mum, granny. Doctoral research on midwife-father communication during childbirth

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@CoyleDebbie Sending much love dear Debbie as you honour the life of your beautiful son Rick 💖

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@SoVeryBritish A tin of baked beans, cold and straight from the tin, on a crowded train. Followed by a tin of tomatoes and a small tin of butter beans.

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@Lisabacon15 I’m going to check mine tomorrow…😳

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@KitzingerCelia Sheila’s books gave me confidence during my pregnancies & births. She inspired me to become an NCT teacher, a midwife & to undertake an ethnographic doctoral study into midwife-father communication during birth. Privileged to meet her, a beautiful, generous, inspirational woman

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@msbpgce @doc_bipolar From English teacher to midwife, aged 35

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@Anna202184 Couldn’t agree more! Recently visited a woman who was 5’ 10” with BMI of 24 and she’d had a planned CS for ‘big baby’ who weighed 8lb 5oz!

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@JaneyGodley Susan Hill’s Simon Serailler series

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@Joanna__Hardy Paracetamol suppositories, available from GP. May help because sometimes during a migraine medication isn’t absorbed into the bloodstream via the stomach lining.

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@corden1326 @sheena_byrom @ACBmidwife I was involved in a 3-year caseholding project in the late 1990s where ‘low risk’ women decided during labour whether to birth at home or go into hospital. Result = 20% home birth rate

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Wed 12 Oct 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Lips Choir Presents: The ApocaLIPS https://t.co/Qy5oiiLi2k

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@PygottSandra @SarahJJoyce1 Congratulations Sarah! Look forward to reading your findings

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Congratulations dear Kathryn @Sanctummid and wishing you a very happy successful term as our RCM President