Pregnancy Blog - Opinions & News

Six babies a day are stillborn everyday, says Stillborn Australia's Victoria Bowring.

'Last week you were pregnant, this week you're not and you don't have a baby to show for it'

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Statistics show a near-doubling of mortality rates when midwifes lead care compared to care led by obstetricians.

AMAQ raises concerns over midwife-led births

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The park bench dedicated to the Rilkoff twins John and Fred.

The complicated grief of losing your babies

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Creative pregnancy announcements

Announcing that you're expecting can be a time to express your creativity, sense of humour and imagination. Check out how other parents and parents-to-be have broken the news to friends and family.

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Funny ultrasound pictures

It's called pareidolia - when the brain makes an image or pattern appear where there isn't really one.

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Controversial spots: To park or not to park in pregnancy?

Should pregnant women be allowed to use 'parent and child' car parking spots?

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I'm pregnant - keep your hands off

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5 pregnancy health myths that just won't go away

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'Last week you were pregnant, this week you're not and you don't have a baby to show for it'

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Parenting advice has changed dramatically in the last 100 years.

Terrible parenting advice from the 1920s

Parenting advice has been around forever in some form or other. There's even some in the Bible (mainly used these days to justify beating children, but let's not talk about that). However, it's only in the last 100 years or so that it has become a huge industry.

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Rainbow baby celebrated with incredible maternity photoshoot

When Kevin Mahoney organised wife Jessica's maternity photoshoot he hoped to capture not only the beauty of this pregnancy, but also the importance of the six heartbreaking losses which came before it.

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The Stillbirth Foundation-commissioned report found that stillbirths cost the national economy $681.4 million.

Stillbirth to cost economy $680m by 2020

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We long for someone to tell us that what we did was formidable and brave and really hard.

Why we can't stop giving pregnant women advice they don't want

When I fell pregnant with my first child I thought I knew what I didn't know. I knew I couldn't adequately prepare myself for birth or the first delirious months (or years). But I felt satisfied, almost smug, about my awareness of that fact. I understood, to paraphrase Former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, that there were "known unknowns."

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Cristina Wright, who is eight months pregnant, has welcomed an apology after she was refused use of a staff toilet at a ...

Pregnant woman's toilet refusal leads to manager apology

A heavily pregnant woman who was refused access to a staff toilet at a store in Belconnen said the law should be changed to force retailers to allow vulnerable people to use their toilets.