Birth Stories

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

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

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

Birth Story: The car park birth caught on camera
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’
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 […]

Birth Story: Mum gives birth on her own, sends selfie to husband
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 on livestreaming her unassisted birth
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 […]

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

Birth story: Shelley’s serene home water birth
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 […]

Birth Story: After 10 boys, mum gives birth to baby girl
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. […]

Birth Story: Principal helps teacher deliver baby at school
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: The longest week of my life
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 […]

Birth Story: Mum thinks she has kidney stones, gives birth to triplets
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: Army dad’s mission to make it home for baby’s birth
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 […]

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