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Birth Stories

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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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. […]

Teacher gives birth at school

Birth Story: Principal helps teacher deliver baby at school

Posted on September 9, 2019June 7, 2022

A teacher has given her students an eye-opening education after giving birth at school. Lindsay Agbalokwu wasn’t due to have her second bub until next […]

Birth story from mother with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Birth Story: The longest week of my life

Posted on August 21, 2019June 7, 2022

After battling with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, April Dunlop was told getting pregnant wouldn’t be easy. But to her surprise, while on the waitlist for a […]

Surprise triplets for mother who thought she had kidney stones | Mum's Grapevine

Birth Story: Mum thinks she has kidney stones, gives birth to triplets

Posted on August 19, 2019June 7, 2022

A mum has given birth to surprise triplets, after going to the hospital with what she thought was kidney stones. The US woman says she […]

Birth story of Sadie Kaye

Birth Story: Army dad’s mission to make it home for baby’s birth

Posted on August 13, 2019June 7, 2022

Caitlin Brown was just 15 weeks pregnant when she kissed her partner Cody McDermott goodbye for his Australian Defence Force training. She knew he’d miss […]

hyperemisis gravidarum in pregnancy

Birth story: ‘I was throwing up 30 times a day’

Posted on July 19, 2019June 23, 2022

Kylie Mexsom and her husband already had a busy life juggling their three kids, when they unexpectedly fell pregnant with their fourth. It was 17 […]

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