Fear of Birth

Women have birthed babies successfully for millenniums. We don’t know if they were scared. Some of them probably were. It would be pretty unnatural not to have worries and even fear of something so epic and unknown in many ways. The difference, I suppose is that women in the past, partly was part of birth [...]

Birth Activism or Mother Celebrations

It is needless to say that birth in our culture, is very different to what it used to be and  also to what it was meant to be. We save more mothers and babies than we used to in poorer times, but we are now at a place where the medicalisation of birth, is continuing [...]

Is Birth Getting Harder?

Based on a presentation by midwife and lecturer Rachel Reed. Check out her very informative website: MidwifeThinking

Birth is rarely described as easy, and in today’s culture birth is surrounded by lots of fear and feelings of danger and risk. However, for most women the safest and healthiest way to birth is a normal, vaginal [...]

Empowering birth

A lot of you know that I recently went through a miscarriage at 13 weeks. I wanted to share with you some amazing things I have learned on my journey through the three months of being pregnant and going through the miscarriage.

Being a Doula and then getting pregnant makes you realise that it [...]

Public or Private

In Australia today there are a few different options of birth place for women. You can birth in a private hospital, a public hospital, a birth centre, or at home. Not all options are available to women everywhere in Australia and home birth is not funded by the government in Australia at the moment. (But [...]

DVD for Dads

I recently had the opportunity to borrow those movies called: “Being Dad”. I was very positively surprised by the first one, but it also raised a whole lot of questions in me.

The movie shows three or four groups of men talking about their experiences and it is really relaxed and, I think, quite [...]

Hello world!

All right, I am finally entering the 21st century with regards to technology This is my Blog! (Thank you, my techie husband!)

I will be writing about pregnancy and birth, not so much from a medical point of view but more from the emotional side of things. I will also be writing about Doula work [...]