For your baby’s six week check up a doctors appointment and a child nurse appointment will be scheduled.  It is best to arrive at least ten minutes early as your baby will need to be weighed and measured first.  The baby will need all their clothes off for this.  You can keep the nappy on [...]

In Norway you have to register with a doctor.  You can only register with one doctor at one time and this registry is recorded in the big government system.  You cannot register with any doctor you want, only doctors that have available places at their clinic.  This is so the doctor-patient love can be spread [...]

* Warning: Some of the information in this post is not for the faint-of-heart.  I feel that the information is important for two reasons: 1. It gives an example of the ideas and procedures of the Norwegian birthing system, and 2. I have yet to find any resources that discuss some of the ‘secret’ things [...]

There is a set procedure when you have pre-eclampsia.  If A doesn’t work then you move onto B, and if B doesn’t work then you move onto C.  Each step increases in intensity and depending on how your body reacts to each step will greatly impact on the next. I was admitted into the maternity [...]