As a Doula and Childbirth Educator I have worked within the ‘system’ for years now and have become very familiar with the word ‘risk’. It’s a word that seems to get thrown around a lot in maternity care and it’s a word that holds great importance, power and weight in the eyes of the care provider and lots of fear,…
We are currently dealing with an unprecedented situation. One like no other and our top priority at the moment is to keep our community healthy and especially our health care workers that are working tirelessly to aid those affected by this horrendous pandemic. However, in all of this we are seeing restrictions come out daily which are brought upon us…
A new childbirth education program that’s breaking the norms is now in Brisbane. Birth Boot Camp is on the rise and breaking boundaries in what we know in preparation for birth. We’ve all seen and watched ‘One Born Every Minute’ and the medicalisation of birth that we have grown so accustomed to. Whenever you watch a birth in the media…
The fear mongering about big babies is so widespread that women are literally so anxious before the birth just from the fact that someone may have said to them that their carrying much bigger or their care provider may have planted the seed that their baby is a bit on the larger side. And so that seed of doubt grows…
Any mum that has suffered through postnatal depression or anxiety knows that it is a silent disease that feels like your all alone in the hopelessness that is your mind. But now the new drug Zulresso that promises some relief for that is paving the way to give these women some hope for a better tomorrow, but are we losing…
The Fourth Trimester ‘The first 40 days of life will impact the next 40 years of life’…this is an Indian saying deriving from an ancient tradition in which the minutes, hours, days and weeks following your birth should be spent nourishing your baby and nurturing yourself by having family and friends take care of you so you can rest and…
The new mum is Danielle Haines whom was very open about her emotions in her post saying that she felt ‘so raw and open’.This post is one that women all over the globe have been waiting for! Someone to stand up and say this isn’t all beautiful and rosy. This is hard work being a new mum and to handle…
So when I gave birth to my eldest daughter, a whopping 11 years ago I was the complete mainstream mama, I did what the rest of the everyday woman does and just followed the norm. I had no idea about doulas, birthing options and most of all ingesting my placenta!! If someone even in the slightest suggested that to me…