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Jamie Hare was excited about watching the birth of his fourth baby. On a cold day in June 2010, the plasterer put on a gown at Latrobe Regional Hospital and waited to be called into the operating theatre for his partner Linda's caesarean.
I daydreamed about my baby's introduction to the world. I visualised myself a warrior, as women had forever done.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has just released new guidelines regarding cord clamping after birth.
More women in NSW are being diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy and more are having births induced or delivered by caesarean, new figures show.
Ivana Alexander was anxious about having her first baby.
Raquel Renteria is a #badassmama. Why? Because she knows that giving birth via caesarean doesn't make her less of a mum.
You did it! Your baby is safely out and in your arms and the relief is overwhelming. Now there's the placenta.
An adorable photo of a little boy and his dad enjoying skin to skin contact with newborn twins is melting hearts everywhere.
A UK woman was out like a light during what could have been the most painful experience of her life.
Luke and Hillary Gardner never have a problem remembering each other's birthday.
An American mother was shocked when she gave to a 6.4kg (14lb 1oz) baby last month.
"You are Not alone," Kim Chen wrote in the heartfelt Facebook post, two months after his wife, Florence Leung's, death.
Motherhood burns you down, but it rebuilds you too.
New research reports that 74 per cent of mums don't want to admit they aren't coping, and therefore don't seek support or treatment.
When Adele spoke this week about the agony of postnatal depression, it brought back awful memories.
I asked the therapist who helped my wife whether I might have depression too, but she just about laughed me out of the room.
From the outside it looked like Allison Goldstein was blissfully happy. She had a new baby, a loving husband, and was part of a close knit-family.