The key to meaningful birth preparation

The key to meaningful birth preparation: Prepare for pain, intensity and the unexpected

There seem to be a common belief in our culture today; that as long as a woman thinks positively about birth & is determined to birth without drugs, then that will give her a good birth. And if a woman worries [...]

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 [...]

Writing your Birth Preferences

‘You can’t plan your birth’. It might seem like a funny statement to make at the start of a post about writing your birth preferences. Birth has it’s own mysterious ways and we can never predict how in might go. That said, I want to make some comments and let you know about the [...]

Saying the Great YES, a challenge of birth

Written by Georgina Kelly, first published in Australia on The Natural Parenting website

In order to give birth and in order to passionately say “Yes”, we need to open ourselves up wide. Our womb, the repository of life, needs the door unfastened to give birth. Our heart, the core of our being, needs to be [...]

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 [...]