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…
Pregnancy & Birth
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…
What not to say to a pregnant woman, ever
Re-blogged with permission by Lauren Keenan of Modern Mothercraft Before I had my children, I thought that being pregnant only involved growing a baby….
Ditching the coffee? How to stay energized when you’re pregnant
By Hannah Schenker Coffee is rather popular with mums, and it’s easy to see why. A quick, sharp jolt of energy for a sleep-deprived,…
They Should’ve Warned Me
By Jenny Studenroth Gerson When I was pregnant, everyone was all about “warning” me about what was coming next. I walked around much of…
20 things to love about being pregnant
By Hannah Schenker Whether your little newt was planned or not, you can’t deny there is definitely some magic going on when you are…
The top 5 benefits of skin to skin
A 2015 study published in the journal Pediatrics[1] confirmed that for preterm newborns, skin-to-skin contact can help to lower the risk of sepsis, a…