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Birth Stories

Mum finds out she's pregnant at 28 weeks

Birth Story: ‘I found out I was pregnant at 28 weeks’

Posted on August 20, 2020June 26, 2022

Laura and her partner Dean were busy setting up their life together, finishing studies, building a home. A baby just wasn’t in the plans, yet. […]

Surprise twins birth video

Birth Story: Mum gives birth to surprise twins

Posted on August 6, 2020June 26, 2022

Lyndsey Altice had just birthed her baby, and thought she could finally relax – until she felt another ‘ring of fire’, and along came another […]

Diary of an accidental home birth | Mum's Grapevine

Birth Story: Diary of an accidental home birth

Posted on July 30, 2020June 26, 2022

After her first baby, Jayne Jones was a nervous about going through labour again. Feeling she needed to be better prepared this time, she did […]

Charlotte Wheeler Smith birth story

Birth Story: I gave birth on a toilet after being told it was ‘trapped wind’

Posted on July 16, 2020June 26, 2022

Charlotte Wheeler-Smith had just smashed out a seven kilometre run, five k walk and a cycling session when she started having tummy pains. Incredibly, a […]

Baby Tori birth story

Birth Story: Becoming a mum against the odds

Posted on July 2, 2020June 26, 2022

After losing their first baby not long after birth, Brock and Katie Day spent years searching for answers to their heartbreaking loss and trying desperately […]

Emily Skye baby born at home

Birth Story: Fitness star Emily Skye’s dramatic home birth

Posted on June 19, 2020June 7, 2022

Fitness influencer Emily Skye has given birth to her baby boy on the floor at home, revealing the dramatic birth in a series of photos […]

Pregnant with breast cancer birth story

Birth Story: ‘I was diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant’

Posted on June 18, 2020June 26, 2022

Already mum to one miracle child, Jessica Allen was thrilled when she finally fell pregnant again after 18 months of trying. After almost losing her […]

Kirsty Gale Home Birth Story

Birth story: ‘I had an accidental home birth … twice’

Posted on June 7, 2020June 26, 2022

With one unplanned home birth already under her belt, Kirsty Gale was determined to make it to the hospital for the arrival of her third […]

Carpark baby birth

Birth Story: The car park birth caught on camera

Posted on April 22, 2020June 26, 2022

With all the drama of a movie script, this heart-thumping birth story is equal parts beautiful and thrilling … and it was all captured on […]

Birth story: ‘My body was shutting down’

Posted on March 19, 2020June 7, 2022

High school sweethearts Nick and Natasha Boreland had tried for years to become parents and were over the moon when they overcame fertility issues to […]

Mum texts husband after delivering baby at home on her own | Mum's Grapevine

Birth Story: Mum gives birth on her own, sends selfie to husband

Posted on March 5, 2020June 7, 2022

Patricia Ghaly is one fierce mumma. Not only did she give birth to her third child on her own, standing in her bedroom, the New […]

Mum plans to livestream freebirth

Mum plans on livestreaming her unassisted birth

Posted on January 29, 2020June 26, 2022

Single mum-of-two Tahlia Duignan is planning to livestream her unassisted homebirth, in a bid to educate other mums about freebirthing. The 24-year-old is has created a […]

Homebirth birth story

Birth Story: Birthing at home, alone, with everyone locked outside

Posted on November 15, 2019June 7, 2022

Babies arrive in their own sweet time – and if that happens to be when you’ve locked yourself inside your home, with your doula on […]

Home water birth story

Birth story: Shelley’s serene home water birth

Posted on October 3, 2019June 26, 2022

Determined to birth at home, Shelly McKenzie’s water broke on her outside dunny as the rain poured down. If ever there was a true-blue Aussie […]

Alexis Brett mum of 10 boys and one girl

Birth Story: After 10 boys, mum gives birth to baby girl

Posted on September 12, 2019June 7, 2022

After giving birth to 10 boys in a row, Alexis Brett was convinced her eleventh baby would also be a bouncing little bundle of blue. […]

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