Pregnancy & Birth

When I was pregnant with my first baby in 1990, I decided against having a scan. This was a rather…

With thanks to the American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health Published in…

Published in Kindred, Issue 25, March 08, as part of Many Hands: We Were Never Meant To Do It Alone,…

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No matter how carefully thought out, nothing ever goes completely to plan. When we are talking about…

In 2001, actress Ricki Lake gave birth to her second child in her home—in her bathtub to be precise—with the…

By Astra I was awake, as usual, at 5 a.m., staring at the wall, wishing that I were…

Pregnancy is such a wonderful, magical time when considering the hidden processes in the belly and…

As a child of the fifties, my idea of childbirth came from old American sitcoms. The mother is closeted…

Excerpt from Doulas, the Guardians of Natural Birth by Gabrielle Targett In 2003 Adela Stockton a registered…

The night before giving birth to our daughter stayed up with my mum and husband Greg and watched Memoirs…

Post Natal Depression (PND) affects at least one in ten mothers around the world. While this painful and…

Birth, She is dying... This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for…

There’s nothing more refreshing than a dip in the ocean, the freedom, weightlessness and buoyancy.…

Presented by The Training and Research Centre for Natural Birth Inc. There are many…

• Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.…

The great story of the heart entering form. You have been watching us and waiting. It cannot be an easy…

This is part of a series of true birth stories excerpted from the book “The First Breath”,…

I fell pregnant easily with Rhett. It was about a month after my husband and I were married and we were…

Our homebirth with Kaede` was difficult to plan. Firstly, I had to find a willing midwife to…