My Birth Story
pregnancy
'My birth was so traumatic, I discharged myself from hospital against medical advice.'
Emily Mitchell
health
CLARE STEPHENS: 'I did everything to avoid a traumatic birth. Then I had one.'
Clare Stephens
health
'I'm not ready, I'm scared.' Gogglebox's Isabelle Silbery shares her emotional birth story.
Isabelle Silbery
reality tv
'My heart shattered.' MAFS star Melissa Rawson shares her twins' premature birth story.
Melissa Rawson
baby
'Instagram gave me warped expectations about my first few hours as a mum.'
Gemma Bath
pregnancy
‘I'm going full glam for my c-section. I'm not ashamed.'
Zoe McGrath
baby
'We have always done things in sync.' Meet the Melbourne twins who just gave birth together.
Laura Jackel
pregnancy
JESSIE STEPHENS: 'I had a full blown fear of childbirth but I did it. Here’s what I know now.'
Jessie Stephens
pregnancy
'I was numb all the way through.' A letter to my son who was born at 26 weeks old.
Erica Harris
pregnancy
'My son’s birth took me from a private to a public hospital within 24 hours. Here are the differences I saw.'
Zoe Rochford
baby
'A child's birthday also belongs to their mother. This is why.'
Larissa Huntington
parent opinion
‘I was a shell of my normal self’. What a doctor wants you to know about postpartum depression.
Dr Preeya Alexander
pregnancy
'For Aboriginal women, placenta burial is a common ritual. Mine was thrown out by mistake.'
Laura Jackel
pregnancy
'I didn't want her to be alone.' The unique grief of losing one twin.
Laura Jackel
baby
'I've interviewed dozens of women about their birth stories. This is what I've learnt.'
Laura Jackel
baby
My Birth Story: My baby was born nine weeks early in the back of an ambulance.
Laura Jackel
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