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'Best' baby positions for birth
The way in which your baby lies in your pelvis can affect how smoothly your labour progresses. This page looks at ways that will encourage your baby into the best position, prior to birth.
Caesarean birth
This page provides information about caesarean birth.
Choosing an independent midwife
This page explains the role and status of independent midwives.
Going past your due date
Only a small percentage of babies – about five per cent – are born on their ‘due’ date. This page looks at the options if you go past your due date.
Group B Streptococcus (GBS)
Information about Group B Streptococcus (GBS).
Having a premature baby
This page looks at parents' feelings when their baby is born prematurely, and what services are available to help parents cope at this difficult and demanding time.
Home Birth
This NCT Information Sheet looks at questions and answers to help you decide if home birth is for you.
Home birth: all you need to know
The text on this page is taken from the NCT's booklet 'Home birth: all you need to know'; this information aims to help you decide whether giving birth at home may be right for you, and includes practical suggestions for organising a home birth.
Induction and acceleration (augmentation)
This page provides information on starting labour artificially (induction) and accelerating labour (augmentation).
Making a decision
Making a decision
Swine flu - your questions answered
This document provides pregnant women, their partners, and parents of babies and young children with information about how pandemic swine flu might affect their pregnancy, the health of their baby, or their own health.
The role of a midwife
This page provides information on the role of a midwife, how they work, and what you can expect from them.
Using water in labour and birth
This NCT Information Sheet looks at helping you decide whether to use a birthing pool during labour.
Vaginal birth after a caesarean
This NCT Information Sheet looks at questions and answers for women who have had a caesarean and are pregnant again.
Where will my baby be born?
Where you have your baby is important not only for the kind of birth you have but also for how you manage during the first weeks of being a mother. To help you in this decision-making process, this page looks at what the various options each has to offer.