Birth Story of Isley – Maise On Friday 20th August 2021, my partner and I went on our daily walk around the block, I was one day over my due date, little did I know this would be our last walk as a family of two. At 10.30pm on the Friday we went to bed, I was...
Home is the best place By Renee Blair When I fell pregnant I had been watching birth for years. Many people would often ask me, doesn’t that scare you? Doesn’t that put you off? Why would you want to go through that? Most of these questions and comments were...
Corban – First at home I discovered I was pregnant at Christmas 2005. Being only 23, single and unsure what I was doing in life, a baby was a totally unexpected surprise. I am a firm believer in the fact that everything happens for a reason and never...
When the opposite happens – Evangeline’s Birth Words by Lala McCarthy Photos by Hannah McMaster What happens when what you have hoped and planned for your entire pregnancy, does not come to fruition? Sometimes, for any number of reasons our babies or our...
Carys Shirin Ann’s Birth After having our boys, Wade in hospital followed by Reid (a waterbirth) at home, there was no doubt that I would be having this baby at home as well. Still, I found it quite amazing that a lot of people assumed I would be heading...
Aubrie’s birth story – HBAC! (home birth after caesarean) Aubrie is my second child. My first, Cohen, was planned to be a home birth, with no interventions. I trusted that my body and my baby knew what to do to birth naturally. However at 20 weeks we found out that...
