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The miracle mum who lost nine litres of blood during childbirth
A mother who almost died during the traumatic premature birth of her fifth child has been reunited with her baby girl just weeks after doctors feared she would not survive.
![New York Port Authority police officer Brian McGraw who helped deliver baby Asenat at the World Trade Centre.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/4/0/h/d/f/image.related.landscape.300x200.girpbb.png/1438727301650.jpg)
Baby born at New York's World Trade Centre
The first baby born at the new World Trade Centre was delivered yesterday on a concourse inside the $3.9 billion transportation hub.
![Speedy delivery: Lesia and Jon Pettijohn with Josiah.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/z/l/8/t/image.related.landscape.300x200.gig53m.png/1437373542590.jpg)
Husband films mum giving birth in moving car on freeway
An incredible birth video shows a mother delivering her own baby as her husband drives along a freeway in a vain attempt to reach hospital.
![Twins Oscar and Sam were born by emergency caesarean section at 28+2 weeks gestation.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/z/j/p/d/image.related.landscape.300x200.gifrzw.png/1437291124003.jpg)
The tiny twins who were strong from the start
I cried when a specialist told me at exactly 28 weeks that our twin boys would have to be born within 48 hours.
![Amber Pangborn gave birth alone and started a fire before being rescued.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/y/m/3/g/image.related.landscape.300x200.gi28ul.png/1435715684083.jpg)
A solo birth, a wasp swarm and a forest fire: mum and baby's amazing story of survival
Desperate, out of petrol and low on food, a new mother lit a fire in the hope of attracting attention.
![Senior Sergeant Paul Henry (at back) with Fiona Cowell and her baby Matilda.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/x/7/0/c/image.related.landscape.300x200.ghgmr6.png/1433397285160.jpg)
Police officer helps deliver baby by roadside
A police officer who responded to reports of screams coming from a parked car has helped deliver a baby in Melbourne's east.
![Ipswich's Jake McGuire was born weighing 13 pounds, 6 ounces.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/w/r/7/2/image.related.landscape.300x200.ghbah5.png/1432769613347.jpg)
6kg baby breaks records at Qld hospital
A bub weighing more than six kilograms has been born in a Queensland hospital.
![Juliet Smith at her hospital graduation.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/w/g/i/z/image.related.landscape.300x200.gh556v.png/1432264822790.jpg)
Graduation ceremony comes to new mum in hospital
Juliet Smith may only have been a mum for a few days, but she has already learned that babies do not always fit in with their mother's plans.
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Doctor's mobile phone 'left inside c-section mum'
A new mum claims a doctor left his mobile phone inside her after delivering her baby via caesarean section.
![Kateri Schwandt with her newborn boy -- the 13th son for her and husband Jay Schwandt.](/web/20170207084150im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/3/v/y/v/t/image.related.landscape.300x200.3vyvc.png/1431571876157.jpg)
It's a ... boy! Couple welcomes son number 13
"It's a boy!" That's the phrase Kateri Schwandt has heard in labour delivery ward for the 13th time in her life.
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Woman who gave birth on flight didn't know she was pregnant
When a couple boarded a flight on Sunday, they had no idea they would be parents by the time the plane's wheels hit the tarmac again.
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