My Birth Story

'My birth was so traumatic, I discharged myself from hospital against medical advice.'

CLARE STEPHENS: 'I did everything to avoid a traumatic birth. Then I had one.'

'I'm not ready, I'm scared.' Gogglebox's Isabelle Silbery shares her emotional birth story.

Isabelle Silbery

'My heart shattered.' MAFS star Melissa Rawson shares her twins' premature birth story.

'Instagram gave me warped expectations about my first few hours as a mum.'

‘I'm going full glam for my c-section. I'm not ashamed.'

'We have always done things in sync.' Meet the Melbourne twins who just gave birth together.

JESSIE STEPHENS: 'I had a full blown fear of childbirth but I did it. Here’s what I know now.'

Jessie Stephens

'I was numb all the way through.' A letter to my son who was born at 26 weeks old.

'My son’s birth took me from a private to a public hospital within 24 hours. Here are the differences I saw.'

'A child's birthday also belongs to their mother. This is why.'

Larissa Huntington

‘I was a shell of my normal self’. What a doctor wants you to know about postpartum depression.

Dr Preeya Alexander

'For Aboriginal women, placenta burial is a common ritual. Mine was thrown out by mistake.'

'I didn't want her to be alone.' The unique grief of losing one twin.

'I've interviewed dozens of women about their birth stories. This is what I've learnt.'

My Birth Story: My baby was born nine weeks early in the back of an ambulance.

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