Pregnancy & Birth

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…

I decided that I needed to get just a bit more sleep that morning when the alarm went off. I turned it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12BG_bWVW4c Marsden Wagner, MD, talking in the documentary, The Business of Being…

(Photo by Lynsey Stone.) Giving birth in ecstasy: this…

Bonding by Natural Birth (Illustration by Mari Dieumegard used with permission.) The same hospital that offers…

"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone…