As I write this I am less than 4 weeks away from delivering my 3rd child and so I have had to recently contemplate these options for myself. Deciding how to birth your baby is a difficult decision and while the end outcome is not completely in your hands as the mother, it is good to be educated on your options and make an initial choice – even if it later needs to be changed due to unforeseen complications.

Throughout the seasons of life as a woman your weight has probably fluctuated somewhat. From your slim school days, perhaps you put on some weight at university and lost it when you started working. Your young married life saw a slim trim you, but pregnancy and children have left little time for the gym and exercise and perhaps you have put on some weight in the last while. While I believe that there is a lot more to life than how much you weight, it is good to find out now and then how far off track you are using a reasonable index known as your BMI (Body Mass Index).