Birth

Meeting  Connie I’ll give a bit of a back story. I had a very high intervention birth with my first. After realising that none of what happened would have happened if I was left alone to let my body do...

Meeting  Jackson 'Shit. I'm 27 weeks pregnant and about to give birth. This is not good.' I loved being pregnant. I actually felt a bit braggy whenever anyone would look at me sympathetically and say, "So, how are you going?"...

Meeting  Elijah It was the 20th of September 2020. I had just put our little boy Mason down to sleep in his bed. My hubby Jordan had recently been training for a half marathon run and asked if it would...

Meeting  Ella My Restorative Birth  My third pregnancy was hard; not just physically, not because it was in the middle of covid, which added a layer of difficulty to appointments and support, but mostly because my two previous labours and...

I’ve been lucky enough to carry and birth three beautiful children. All three births have been vastly different from each other, but it’s the birth of my second child which was particularly interesting and memorable. When I fell pregnant for...

Sunday night, I had intense contractions for 2.5 hours and started to get swelling in my ankles and feet. I took some Panadol, heated a wheat pack, and finally dozed off to sleep. When I woke, I still had contractions,...