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Home birth? Birth Centre? Hospital? Wherever you plan to give birth, talking about it can help you to prepare for a positive birth experience.
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Hello and welcome to the Exeter Homebirth Support Group.

We are a group of volunteers that hold meetings every second Tuesday of the month at The Baby Room in Exeter for people interested in talking about homebirth.

We are not medically trained and don't give medical advice, but help you explore options and meet other people interested in home birthing.

Booking is essential for our groups. To find out more please either send us a message using our contact form or join our Facebook group to stay up to date.

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Our Homebirth support group is open to all parents who are thinking about planning a home birth, whether you are undecided and wanting to explore your birth choices or already feeling that home birth is for you.

Exeter Homebirth Group do not condone or encourage unassisted birth or freebirthing. We believe in maintaining the safety of mother and baby at all times. We encourage women and their families to make informed decisions and we respect their decisions.

We welcome birth stories at Homebirth Groups and we don't feel it is appropriate to censor their telling. We feel it is as important to share stories where homebirths were not achieved, as when they are, as this is the reality. What we hope to hear are stories where women have positive experiences, where they felt well supported and felt involved in any decision-making. When women and their families do not feel they have had a positive experience we aim to signpost them to appropriate professionals.

The following listing shows the date, time and venue for our forthcoming meetings. If you require any further information please contact us using the contact us page.

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We have inflatable birth pools available for hire. They are all professional pools by Birth Pool In a Box/The Good Birth Company and you can find more information and the dimensions of pools on their website. We have regular and mini pools available for hire. We charge £30 hire for the pool and inflate/deflate pump to cover our costs, but you will also need to buy a sterile liner from The Good Birth Company. We have a discount code which you are welcome to use for 10% off the liner and anything else you might want from The Good Birth Company.

Please contact Alice Chapman at Info@alicechapman.co.uk to discuss birth pool hire, or visit our facebook group to chat about the benefits of birthing in water!

If you are interested in proceeding with a pool booking please download and complete the 'Birth Pool Hire Form'.

Alice Chapman is a yoga teacher specialising in women’s health yoga therapy. Having had two beautiful, empowering homebirths herself she is a dedicated advocate of homebirth, particularly birthing pools. As such Alice coordinates the hiring of birth pools for the group. Get in touch with her if you're interested in hiring one.

Contact Alice on Info@alicechapman.co.uk or www.alicechapman.co.uk

Hazel Acland Tree works with women, and their families, to honour the sacred journey through womanhood by celebrating rites of passage, providing educational tools, supporting holistic health care, providing professional pregnancy & birth support and hosting women’s circles & red tent events. She has been involved in the Exeter home birth group for many years, as well as setting up another home birth group in Totnes. She is regional & national rep for Doula UK.

Contact Hazel on hazeltreedoula@gmail.com or https://welcometofullcircle.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/welcometofullcircle/.

Fran Mosco started coming to the Homebirth group when she was pregnant with her first child in 2016 and has been coming back ever since. She felt the group was a really safe space to be able to gather information, listen to others' experiences and ask all those questions you think nobody else is thinking (but they probably are!). This gave her & her husband the confidence to plan, and have, their baby at home. Now she helps host the group, which feels like an absolute privilege.

Contact Fran on fmosco@hotmail.com.

Libby Clapham helps women to let go of negative fears and pre-conceptions about giving birth so that they can enjoy a calm, confident and positive pregnancy and birth - by whatever method is best for them. She teaches the KG Hypno-birthing method in the Good Birth Class. After having her first baby by c section she trained and taught as an antenatal teacher for the NCT for many years during which time she had her second baby. Now both registered homeopath and hypnotherapist Libby has worked with many women in both pregnancy and labour. She also has three grandchildren. Libby is passionate about supporting women in choosing the best place for them to give birth.

Contact Libby via https://www.goodbirthclass.co.uk or phone on: 07986 157854 and 01392 412767.

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Homebirth:

Home Birth Equipment List - A 'shopping list' for you to tick off items which you may want to have ready for a home birth.

Exeter Home Birth group Facebook group

Homebirth

Homebirth for Dads

General:

AIMS - A wealth of information on all aspects of maternity provision.

Birth Choices UK

BellyBelly - Pregnancy, birth & baby resource

Spinning Babies

Doula UK

National Childbirth Trust (NCT)

Independent Midwives UK

IPEN Independent Placenta Encapsulation Network

Breech Birth

Birthing supplies

JUNO magazine – for a free copy enter the code: UDC31187 on this page: http://shop.junopublishing.co.uk/contact-us/get-a-free-copy/

Water birth:

To hire an 'Exeter homebirth group' pool please email Alice Chapman at Info@alicechapman.co.uk for details (the sooner the better and she can book you in the diary)

General waterbirth info sites:

http://www.thegoodbirth.co.uk/obstacles_to_a_waterbirth

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/water.htm

http://www.aims.org.uk/choosewater.htm

http://www.nhslocal.nhs.uk/story/features/water-births

http://www.nct.org.uk/birth-topics/water-birth

https://www.birthpoolinabox.co.uk/http://www.nct.org.uk/birth-topics/water-birth

Breastfeeding:

Association of Breastfeeding Mothers - Tel: 0300 330 5453

Breastfeeding Network - Tel: 0300 330 5453

National Breastfeeding Helpline - Tel: 0300 100 0212 9.30am - 9.30pm

La Leche League

NCT Breastfeeding line (7 days a week, 8am – 10pm) 0300 330 0771

Local BF Support Groups:

Exeter - Nappuccino run by Jen Harris is on Wednesdays 9.30-2.30, Thursday 1-2.30 and Friday 12-2.30 at The Baby Room, Ladysmith Infant School, Exeter EX12PS. Breastfeeding support available www.exeterbabies.co.uk/nappuccino Exmouth - Wednesday's 10-12 at Exmouth children's centre

(Disclaimer: The Exeter Home Birth Group does not provide medical advice, professional diagnosis, opinion, treatment or services but provides general information for educational purposes only. The information provided is not a substitute for medical or professional care. The group is not liable or responsible for any advice, services, or product you obtain through these services.)

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Exeter Homebirth Group’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘Exeter Homebirth Group’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website. The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.
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From time to time, this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
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This privacy policy sets out how Exeter Homebirth Group uses and protects any information that you give Exeter Homebirth Group when you use this website.

Exeter Homebirth Group is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Exeter Homebirth Group may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from April 2015.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

name and job title
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What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

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You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by emailing us at c.e.arnold@hotmail.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you email us on c.e.arnold@hotmail.co.uk.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.