Birth

My pregnancy was a complete and happy accident. We were tempting fate by not trying (just practising 😉) but not preventing; all while living at my mother's until we could afford to buy our own home. I was eight weeks...

My husband and I had gone on a whirlwind six-week vacation to Europe in 2017 and upon returning to Melbourne decided to try for a baby early 2018. Early 2018 came around, and we agreed to officially start, to our...

When I was pregnant, my husband Charlie would laugh about how organised I was. Pregnancy nesting was a real vibe in our house. By 25 weeks, the nursery for our first child was ready to go, complete with hand me...

My first pregnancy was easy, so easy in fact, that I didn't even KNOW I was pregnant. My birth story, though, was not so easy. At the ripe age of 19-years-old, I was living up my summer with my friends,...

My husband and I were expecting our first child in early April 2019. My pregnancy was textbook, and I feel very lucky to have had such an idyllic, first experience. Ideally, I wanted a natural birth with as little intervention...

When we found out I was finally pregnant, just a month after getting married, we were elated, but also filled with fear. I went through a brutal miscarriage only 7 months before. My obstetrician guilt tripped me into getting genetic...