What’s Going On With Your Post-Baby Vagina?
By Kimberly Johnson When it comes to your post-birth nether regions, don’t believe everything you hear-that is, if you’ve heard anything at all! Whether…
Pregnancy & Birth
My Rainbow Baby: Pregnancy After Loss
By Cheree Sheldon *** Trigger warning – baby loss *** That feeling that you get when you see the double lines on the pregnancy…
Honouring Our Bellies – A Living Canvas
By Hannah Schenker Are you nearing the end of your pregnancy, your body completely transformed like a ripening bud, ready to flower? Some may…
How You Can Conquer Mummy Brain With Proper Nutrition
By Zooey Strong New babies can be the harbingers of so much love, joy, and forgetfulness. Yep, the “mummy brain” struggle is real! Sometimes…
Happy Birthing Days: New Book Shares Amazing 3-Step Method
Pizza and Parcels Should be Delivered But Babies Should Be Born! In her bestselling book Happy Birthing Days: a midwife‘s secret to a joyful, safe…
Jaundice In Newborns Could Be An Evolutionary Safeguard Against Death From Sepsis
Richard Hansen, University of Glasgow; Elaina Collie-Duguid, University of Aberdeen, and Georgina Hold, UNSW In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be…
Pregnancy, Exercise and Diet: How To Ensure a Healthy Pregnancy
By Laura Lucas It’s positive. You are pregnant! A completely new world of mixed emotions has suddenly opened up. Disbelief, contentment, acceptance, joy and…
For All The Mothers Who Feel Lost At Times, This Is How I Found ME
By Kim Newing When I became a mother for the first time almost 8 years ago, I had no clue what was ahead of…
I Had a Baby At 40, And It Was Awesome
By Jessica Delfino Let me start by saying I didn’t mean to have a baby at 40. I meant to have a baby, but…
10 Tips For Expectant Fathers From My Second Time Around
By Matt Paolelli As we are currently in the second trimester of our second pregnancy, I’ve found myself increasingly surrounded by other pregnant family members,…
Mindfulness and Water Freed My Fears: A Positive Birth Experience
By Sarah Silver Just over 12 months ago my husband and I were honoured to be able to purchase H2 Oh Baby, a nationally…
Forget “Bouncing Back”: New Gear for the New You
By Hannah Schenker Many women that go through pregnancy are shocked by the changes to their body, struggling to reconcile the image in the…
Birth Trauma Website Launched on International Maternal Mental Health Day
* Suicide is the main cause of death in new mums in Aotearoa; 1 in 3 women consider their birth traumatic (1). * Online…
Breastfeeding Our Toddlers: A Full Term Nursing Series
By Hannah Schenker Loving our postpartum bodies isn’t something that comes easy to everyone. Such huge changes in our physicality as a result of…
Postnatal Recovery For New Mums
By Simone de Cunha Many new mums, like I was, are either overwhelmed with information about breastfeeding (told to “scoff cheese” so I had enough…
The Ugly Truth…About Pregnancy
By Lucia Laubscher Pregnancy is one of those exclusively female experiences, which leaves most men uncertain as to how best approach the mum-to-be in…
Pregnant Mamas, Get Moving! Exercise Reduces Length of Labour, Study Finds
By Hannah Schenker It’s no surprise to any of us that exercise during pregnancy is important – for the health of the mama and…
My Three Closest Friends: PND, Depression and Anxiety
By Kelly Rose You think you hurt me, you think you control me, you try to confuse me. You make me empty. Sad. Confused….
Lifeline: Free Doula Support from Birth For Humankind
This World Doula Week, Birth for Humankind is raising moolah for doulas to support pregnant women across Melbourne who would otherwise have little to…
What To Expect During a Newborn Session With Roxy Lee Photography
By Roxy Lee Photography So you have just found out you are pregnant, you’re over the moon and you spend the next few weeks organising…