Postpartum

  • From a midwife: Caring for a newborn

    From a midwife: Caring for a newborn

    Our last few blogs have covered labour and birth, which helps to prepare you for your journey into birth and meeting your little one. But now it's time to talk about how to care for that little one; your newborn!...

  • What a midwife wants you to know about birth trauma

    What a midwife wants you to know about birth trauma

    Up to 1 in 3 mamas experience birth trauma. There were 294,400 babies born in Australia last year. If those stats are true, 98,133 of those mamas may have experienced birth trauma. That's in 2020 alone. When you consider that...

  • From a Midwife: How to support new mamas; what's helpful + what makes it harder

    From a Midwife: How to support new mamas; what's helpful + what makes it harder

    So often on the maternity ward, I hear loved ones asking, 'how's bub going? Have they got a name? How much do they weigh? When can I snuggle them?' Everyone is excited for a new little love to be born...

  • From a midwife: 30 tips to surviving the first 30 days with a newborn

    From a midwife: 30 tips to surviving the first 30 days with a newborn

    By now, I'm sure you've heard all about how tricky it can be in the early days of the newborn bubble; sleep deprivation, recovery from birth and a new little love who needs a lot of attention. Minutes, hours and...

  • How to understand your newborn's secret little language

    How to understand your newborn's secret little language

    Bringing home your tiny bundle of joy may just be the most exciting and beautiful experience of your life - but it can also be one of the most overwhelming. It may seem like this newest little love of yours...

  • 10 tips for special care/NICU parents

    10 tips for special care/NICU parents

    Mamas, if there's one thing I can truly empathise with it's being a parent of a bubba in special care [or the NICU.] It's a tough gig! Recently I shared some practical tips on getting through this time, but I...