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Birth
There are lots of decisions to make about how and where to give birth. NCT offers information for you to make up your own mind and make the choices you feel most comfortable with.
Read below for NCT information on home birth, hospital births, water birth, birthing centres, midwives and the stages of labour.
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NCT's guide to what happens in labour and what you can expect. Click below to read our articles on each of the stages.
This section has information on home birth that may help you weigh up home birth vs hospital birth or other alternatives.
The choice you have about where to have your baby will depend on your wishes, any needs for clinical support you may have and, to some extent, on where you live. Wherever you choose, the place should feel right for you.
These pages give you more information about the different positions the baby can be in, and what you can do to encourage the baby into the right position.