Addressing five common misconceptions about doulas
Supplied by Birth For Humankind As an organisation with a dedicated team of volunteer doulas – we have heard it all: doulas are this,…
Pregnancy & Birth
Bodypainting Behind the Scenes With Pregnant Mama Morgan
Here at The Natural Parent, we are super appreciative of the female form, especially when there’s a wee bubba in there! So of course…
Cartoonist Captures What it’s Really Like to be Pregnant
By Hannah Schenker Cartoonist Line Severinsen from Norway has been creating cartoons since she was a child, but when she became pregnant with her…
How to heal from a traumatic birth
By Kimberley Newing It’s true that birth matters, but what does that say to the millions of women who didn’t have the birth they…
Vernix: Why You Shouldn’t Wash It Off
By Hannah Schenker The big day has finally arrived. You’ve been preparing for this moment for the last nine months, you’ve laboured and laboured…
8 things you can do for your friend when she has a baby
By Danielle Sainty The first few months after birth are so special and important for mother and child. The best thing they can be…
Too Beautiful: The Moment You Meet Your Baby For The First Hello
Meeting your baby for the first time is something that only ever happens once in your lifetime. And it stays with you, living on…
Pregnant and Postpartum: Walking and jogging for health
By Hannah Schenker We all know how important exercise is for our physical health, but it goes beyond that to improve our mental and…
Ease Pre-Natal Fear in Minutes
By Emma Present Pregnancy and fear are an unavoidable partnership. As our bellies swell so does our list of fears. We fear soft cheese…
Finding Lamaze: Empowering Births Australia
The best start for a mother and baby is a safe and healthy pregnancy and birth. Empowering Births Australia provides childbirth preparation classes that…
Capturing Life: The Incredible Birth Photography of Cassie Emmett
By Hannah Schenker We have been admiring Cassie Emmett’s photography for some time now. She is the photographer behind Capturing Life Birth Photography –…
Discovering Delayed Cord Clamping
By Emily Holdaway Before falling pregnant, delayed cord clamping, or just cord clamping of any kind, wasn’t something I was familiar with, or all…
The moment of your child’s birth
By Hannah Schenker You remember the exact moment your child entered this world…The birth experience…Who was there…How it felt… For some of you it…
There is No Such Thing as “Ready”
By Kimberly Poovey Are you this person too? An over-thinking, over-preparing, worry-wart perfectionist with a 5 year plan? I was. And then I found…
How do you ditch the pressure to ‘bounce back’ after baby?
By Pinky McKay “Tell me there is no one way to ‘do’ newborns. Tell me you just have to figure out what they need….
Celebrating my scars
By Desiree Fortin Recently, I was genuinely congratulated, twice in one week, on my “baby bump.” I am not pregnant. However, I do have…
Birth photography Image of the Year winners released!
By Hannah Schenker Birth photography is absolutely amazing, in the full sense of the word. Being witness to such a transformative passage in a…
Pets supporting their humans through childbirth
By Hannah Schenker Birth Photography on Facebook is a community where photographers share their birth-related photography together in public slideshows. One recent slideshow, called…
To VBAC, or not to VBAC? That is the question: Part Two
 By Charlotte Cretney. Part two in a series of two interviews with mothers who have had a successful VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarian). Part One…
To VBAC, or not to VBAC? That is the question: Part One
By Charlotte Cretney. Part one in a series of two interviews with mothers who have had a successful VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarian). I dreamed…