My water broke in bed at around midnight on Tuesday morning. I had been cramping and tried but mostly failed to sleep the rest of the night. I did manage a couple of hours and when I woke up there was no more cramping but fluid still coming out in small gushes. That stayed the […]
Marisha’s Story
This was my third baby but a very special baby as my second died of SIDS and this was my first child to my husband, Miah. I was extremely impatient ,I just wanted labor to happen. As I’d not gone full term with my others the last 6 weeks were very hard for me. Monday […]
Anna’s Birth
I KNEW she was ready to be born, the fact that my feet turned a little blue every time I had a Braxton Hicks contraction because her head was so far down confirmed that to me! The heat waves and my very sore pelvis were contributing to me turning into one of “those” pregnant women. […]
Ayla’s Birth Story
We would like to share our birth story. In 2003 I gave birth to our first child, Lily, in the hospital in Hobart. We decided to do that because my parents lived there and we could stay with them while waiting for the big day to arrive (we ourselves live on the East Coast). Being […]
Israel’s Birth
From the beginning of my pregnancy, perhaps even earlier than that, I knew I wanted my labour to be different from the ones you see on television, with the woman screaming, the husband yelling “PUSH!”and the doctors and nurses scurrying around, wearing sterile gear in a busy, sterile room. I started to research how birth […]
Llewyn’s Birth Story
Wednesday We had had days of very smoky air from surrounding summer fires and I really needed to get out of the house to do something that would make me feel fresh and revived, – a swim at Trevallyn Dam and then out for dinner sounded perfect to me – and someone else apparently! When […]