Blog and Birth Stories

Were you under the impression that birthing on your back is the best position to bring your beautiful baby earthside? That is what we see on TV shows, movies right? All these warrior mothers lying on their backs, legs in stirrups and being yelled at to PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH!!   Well let me tell […]

Internal Vaginal Exams! Ladies ladies ladies – lets sit down and have a chat about Vaginal Exams. Why do we need them? Why do we have them? Do we know what they are actually doing down there? It’s not like it feels good right? You know you have the right to say “HECK NO”?? Were […]

YAY – I’M PREGNANT After a year and a half of trying to fall pregnant, I WAS FINALLY PREGNANT, and over the moon, yet a bit nervous as so many I knew had miscarried in their first pregnancy if not subsequent pregnancies. We however couldn’t contain our excitement and told everyone before the “12 week” […]

Milk sharing, donor milk, wet nursing – why is it weird?? Let me start by saying, everyone is absolutely entitled to their own opinions and reasonings as to why they find the concept of wet nursing or donor breastmilk weird or not weird. But I would also like to shed some light on why it […]

I COULD HAVE MY BABY WHERE?? BIRTHING OPTIONS IN WA Where did you give birth? Did you know all your options? Did you feel like you chose the best place for you? Did you even know you had options, or did you think going to hospital was the only choice you had? I wasn’t aware […]

Arm yourself with Sarah J Buckley I must admit, I didn’t read ONE parenting / birth book with both of my pregnancies. Looking back, I wish I had read this book. Which book you ask? “Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering” By Sarah J. Buckley. SAY WHO?? Sarah Buckley is a Family Physician, who has 4 of […]