Birth Options
Video captures beautiful breech caesarean birth
A new life is brought gently into the world with tender and expert hands.
How your support person can help reduce the pain of labour
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.
9 things I wish I'd known before I had a caesarean
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.
'I was very frightened': Why Leanne had to fight to have her baby safely
A leading Sydney doctor says the push for natural childbirth is endangering women and babies.
'Why do people go anywhere else?': The top Sydney hospital to have a baby in
A survey of maternity patients at NSW public hospitals suggests midwife-led care is crucial to a good experience.
The mums who hand-deliver their own babies
"I was overwhelmed with excitement and couldn't wipe the smile off my face. I still get excited thinking about it now!"
Stages of Labour
Facebook page celebrates vernix - AKA baby’s 'birthday frosting'
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.
Eating during labour may be beneficial, study finds
A new study has demonstrated that eating during labour - rather than chowing down on ice chips - may actually be beneficial, leading to shorter deliveries.
Birth Stories
Quick-thinking dad ties baby's umbilical cord with his shoelace
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.
Viral giraffe woman gives birth - actual giraffe still pregnant
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?
The new mum who danced her way through labour
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.
Postnatal Depression
Gold Coast hospital unit to treat anxious mums while keeping babies close
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 opens up about her 'painful' battle with postnatal depression
Chrissy Teigen is refreshingly honest about parenting, but the model has kept her postnatal depression diagnosis and treatment private until now.
On the outside: how to help those with PND
For the people closest to those suffering, there is often a disconnect, a wall that is built around the sufferer that seems impenetrable.
Gestational diabetes increases risk of PND: study
A recent study has reported on a somewhat surprising link, finding that gestational diabetes increases the risk of PND in first time mothers.
Husband pens heartfelt letters to mothers with PND after wife takes her own life
"You are Not alone," Kim Chen wrote in the heartfelt Facebook post, two months after his wife, Florence Leung's, death.
A year of motherhood: my survival story
Motherhood burns you down, but it rebuilds you too.