Real life Australian birth stories

Woman gives birth on toilet after being told she had ‘trapped wind’

Anita ButterworthJuly 16, 2020

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 doc... Read More...

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Birth Story: Becoming a mum against the odds

Anita ButterworthJuly 2, 2020

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... Read More...

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Fitness star Emily Skye’s dramatic home birth

Anita ButterworthJune 19, 2020

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 on Instagram. The ... Read More...

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

Anita ButterworthJune 18, 2020

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 firstbo... Read More...

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

Anita ButterworthJune 7, 2020

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 daughter. But as th... Read More...

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Birth Story: The car park birth caught on camera

Anita ButterworthApril 22, 2020

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 camera. Anna ... Read More...

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Birth story: ‘My body was shutting down’

Anita ButterworthMarch 19, 2020

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 finall... Read More...

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Mum gives birth on her own, sends selfie to husband

Anita ButterworthMarch 5, 2020

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 South Wales mum also managed... Read More...

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Birthing at home, alone, with everyone locked outside

Anita ButterworthNovember 15, 2019

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 the other side of the doo... Read More...

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Birth story: Shelley’s serene home water birth

Anita ButterworthOctober 3, 2019

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, t... Read More...

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Alexis Brett mum of 10 boys and one girl

After 10 boys, mum gives birth to baby girl

Anita ButterworthSeptember 12, 2019

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. But much to her 'sho... Read More...

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Principal helps teacher deliver baby at school

Anita ButterworthSeptember 9, 2019

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 we... Read More...

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Birth story from mother with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Birth Story: The longest week of my life

Anita ButterworthAugust 21, 2019

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 hor... Read More...

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

Mum thinks she has kidney stones, gives birth to triplets

Anita ButterworthAugust 19, 2019

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 had no idea she was p... Read More...

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

Anita ButterworthAugust 13, 2019

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 the ... Read More...

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