Sophie's Motherhood Story – My birth experiences inspired the Australian Birth Stories podcast
After the birth of my first son Niko, I was in shock at how my birth had gone down. I went into my pregnancy and labour thinking I had all t
After the birth of my first son Niko, I was in shock at how my birth had gone down. I went into my pregnancy and labour thinking I had all t
Dear first-time-mum me, Congratulations! You’ve just given birth to a beautiful baby GIRL. As you lay there, your mind racing after only a c
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For over 20 years I did the grown-up work thing and held down a successful career in Human Resources. The last 6 years were at Aesop as the
Facing IVF, an Incompetent Cervix and loss. My journey into motherhood was not easy. When I turned 30 I thought it was the right time to sta
When I was 17 weeks pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, the doctors discovered a cyst on my son’s brain. This was monitored very carefull
Life with triplets. It’s busy. It is harder than I’d ever imagined. It is three times the nappies, three times the washing, the cooking, the
Sometimes horrible shit happens…. I have an almost 8 month old baby boy called Max, named after the king of the Wild Things, Maurice Sendak
It has taken me a year to accept my son’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. I certainly didn’t deny it, but I didn’t share my intern
"Nothing prepares you for becoming a parent.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard this well-meaning insight uttered to me during m
Breastfeeding in 2017-18 is pretty good. Everywhere you go there is most probably a nice parent room available where children can play, pare
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I wouldn’t say that I had a particularly bad pregnancy or a bad birthing experience BUT I definitely did not have the happiest of hospital e
I am having another sleepless night. Nothing Ruby related as such but it has really, truly dawned on me how life changing having a baby is.
What happens when you mix kids, a micromanager and Peruvian mountains? You find inspiration to start your own online business. I’ve been
It was my second pregnancy, unexpected and not planned. My son was only 8 months old when we found out and we had already planned our upcomi
Hip hip hooray! You've just heard the good news, your friend has just just had a baby. What do you get? A present for the bub? Surely th
After trying, unsuccessfully, to have a baby for what felt like a lifetime, we went straight to the top. I never really had regular periods,
When we found out we were pregnant with baby number 2 I could not believe the words coming out of the doctors mouth, “Congratulations, you&#
Now, it is challenging for me to admit this, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever picture myself being a mother! I come from a family w