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A new life is brought gently into the world with tender and expert hands.
They might think they are just there to hold your hand, but experts say a woman's partner can actually make a difference to the level of pain felt during labour.
Most would agree that a c-section isn't the way we want our babies to enter this world but sometimes we don't get to choose.
A leading Sydney doctor says the push for natural childbirth is endangering women and babies.
A survey of maternity patients at NSW public hospitals suggests midwife-led care is crucial to a good experience.
"I was overwhelmed with excitement and couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I still get excited thinking about it now!"
Birth Without Fear is celebrating vernix – or what they call 'birthday frosting' – by sharing a photo of a baby covered in a thick layer of vernix.
A new study has demonstrated that eating during labour - rather than chowing down on ice chips - may actually be beneficial, leading to shorter deliveries.
When his baby girl made her unexpected arrival in the back of the family car, a quick-thinking father tied her umbilical cord with the only thing he could find: his shoelace.
More than 30 million people watched Erin Dietrich pretending to be a giraffe during her last days of pregnancy, so why wouldn't she don the giraffe mask again while giving birth?
When US mum Amber Bush went into labour recently, she had a plan to help things along and speed up the birth of baby. She would dance.
Queensland women at risk of serious perinatal mental health issues will be able to receive care without being separated from their babies at a new unit on the Gold Coast.
Chrissy Teigen is refreshingly honest about parenting, but the model has kept her postnatal depression diagnosis and treatment private until now.
For the people closest to those suffering, there is often a disconnect, a wall that is built around the sufferer that seems impenetrable.
A recent study has reported on a somewhat surprising link, finding that gestational diabetes increases the risk of PND in first time mothers.
"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.