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Sarah Buckley, M.D.

Sarah J Buckley is a trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines full-time motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting,
Dr Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, anthropological, cross-cultural, psychological, and personal. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children.
Her bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices, published by Celestial Arts (US, 2009), builds on her acclaimed first edition, published in Australia as Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting One Moon Press, Brisbane, 2005).
Dr Buckley’s writing has been published in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, US, and other countries, including: The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia), Mothering magazine (US), MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK), Midwifery Today (US), Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (US); The Practicing Midwife (UK); The Mother (UK), The Green Parent (UK); Juno (UK) Byron Child/Kindred magazine (Aus), Natural Parenting (Aus), Mother and Baby (Aus); Playtimes (Aus); Wellbeing (Aus/NZ), Nexus (Aus/NZ), Living Now (Aus), The Australian newspaper (Aus), Birthspirit Midwifery (NZ) and The Complete Mother (Canada). See below for a fuller list
Dr Buckley’s work has been incorporated into parenting books including
Mothering Your Nursing Toddler (Norma Jane Bumgarner, US 2000); Lotus Birth by Shivam Rachana, (Australia, 2000); Loving Mama (edited by Tiffany Pallisi, US 2004); What Babies and Children Really Need (Sally Goddard Blyth, UK, 2008) and Heart to Heart Parenting (Robin Grille, Australia 2008). ). She has also written the forewords for The Wild Feminine (Tami Lynn Kent, US 2008) and the bestselling Pregnancy and Childbirth Secrets (Gail Dahl, Canada 2007)
She has contributed to professional texts including Midwifery Best Practice Volumes 4 and 5 (Edited by Sara Wickham, UK 2004 and 2009); Sharing Midwifery Knowledge: Tricks of the Trade Volume 4 (Midwifery Today, US 2004); and Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care (Edited by Denis Walsh and Soo Downe, UK, 2010).
Her work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian and Estonian.
Visit Dr. Buckley online. 

Wellbeing

New Scientific Report: Unnecessary Medical Interventions In Labor And…

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Jan 13, 2015 0
Editor's Note: Sarah Buckley, MD, a contributing author and International Advisory Board member to Kindred, will be sharing excerpts of her work here over the…
Culture

Dr. Sarah Buckley on the 20th Anniversary of the UN’s Year of the…

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Jan 23, 2014 0
About the Video Dr. Sarah Buckley talks about the Global Prenatal Initiative as a part of the 20th anniversary of the UN's Year of the Family in…
Conscious Parenting

10 Tips for Safe Sleeping by Sarah Buckley, MD

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Oct 25, 2011 0
10 Tips for Safe Sleeping (Excerpted from Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle…
Conscious Parenting

Ultrasound Scans – Cause for Concern?

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Jun 5, 2008 4
When I was pregnant with my first baby in 1990, I decided against having a scan. This was a rather unexpected decision, as my partner and I are both…
Conscious Parenting

Healing Birth, Healing The Earth

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Apr 20, 2007 0
Birth, She is dying... This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for our ancestors, has been stripped of Her…
Child development

Mothering, Mindfulness and a Baby’s Bottom – An Introduction to…

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Mar 7, 2007 0
Half of the World's Children Never Wear Diapers (Eric Pearle/Taxi/Getty Images) Is it really possible to raise a baby without nappies? Can our babies actually…
Breastfeeding

Giving Birth: The Endocrinology of Ecstacy

Sarah Buckley, M.D. Nov 27, 2006 1
(Photo by Lynsey Stone.) Giving birth in ecstasy: this is our birth right and our body's intent.…
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