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![Erin Dietrich has given birth, and brought the giraffe mask out again.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/u/y/z/z/image.related.landscape.300x200.guuz0y.png/1489097767223.jpg)
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?
![Dancing was always in Amber Bush's birth plan.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/r/m/8/3/image.related.landscape.300x200.gurlvs.png/1488791267142.jpg)
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.
![Baby Louis.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/p/k/f/6/image.related.landscape.300x200.gupjkd.png/1488507483336.jpg)
Mum gives birth to baby boy at busy Melbourne intersection
It was while buying a birthday present that Isobel Hutchinson realised the pains she had been dismissing all morning may just be the start of labour.
![A birth photographer captures a look of amazement and disbelief as dad Noah Strunk delivers his newborn child on a roadside.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/o/z/d/9/image.related.landscape.300x200.guozmd.png/1488689463370.jpg)
Photographer captures dad assisting in roadside delivery
It's not often a baby born in a car has a professional photographer around to capture his birth, but that's exactly what happened when Parker made his entrance.
![Brian jnr was born weighing six kilos on Tuesday morning.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/y/1/7/x/image.related.landscape.300x200.gty1jn.png/1485302782915.jpg)
Is Brian jnr Victoria's biggest baby ever?
Natashia Corrigan always wanted a "big, chubby baby" but she wasn't expecting to push out a six kilo one on Tuesday.
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'One of the weirdest things we've ever seen': mum almost sleeps through birth
A UK woman was out like a light during what could have been the most painful experience of her life.
![Luke and Hillary Gardner with their son Caleb.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/r/z/8/5/image.related.landscape.300x200.gtrz7h.png/1484518035711.jpg)
Mum, dad and son all share a birthday
Luke and Hillary Gardner never have a problem remembering each other's birthday.
![Baby Loyalty was in NICU for 27 days.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/q/q/z/7/image.related.landscape.300x200.gtqr2h.png/1484268337628.jpg)
Mum gives birth to 'Incredible Hulk' 6.4kg baby
An American mother was shocked when she gave to a 6.4kg (14lb 1oz) baby last month.
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'Mum, please don't be mad but I've just had a baby - it's on the kitchen table'
A teen mum has shared her birth story – and her shock at not knowing she was pregnant until her baby's head emerged.
![Emily Taane with her son Hunter as a baby.](/web/20170328114457im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/l/b/3/n/image.related.landscape.300x200.gtla1d.png/1483421388659.jpg)
Surprise baby 'couldn't be more loved'
The week of his 21st birthday celebrations, Sam Ashworth became a father to a child neither parent knew existed.
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'I was oblivious to the commotion around me': Sydney mum's miracle baby
Faria Hossain was looking forward to finding out her baby's gender at her 19-week scan. When she realised something was not right, her heart began pounding with fear.
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