"The placenta looked like an old-fashioned crown"

"Birth is a major thing in your life and if it doesn’t go well, it stays with you for a long time"

"The fact that I was haemorrhaging didn’t alter the incredible excitement and joy that I felt."

"I had Myla three and a half weeks early. My first indication that something was wrong was having itchy hands and feet…"

"I was expecting his head, followed by an anterior shoulder, then a rotational movement for the next shoulder, followed by the body – but no, it was none of that – he just shot out."

“Oh my God I feel like someone is ripping all the hairs from my fanny.”

Joanne shares her journey towards a wonderful Homebirth

Janet’s birth story happens in a small maternity ward using hypnobirthing.

The Arrival of Ethan Thomas Shaw. A story about a breech baby and a perfect caesarean! We found out we were pregnant at long last just in time to give the grandma-to-be the wonderful news on her birthday, which was the next day.

A baby born on Friday the 13th proves to Mum that there’s no need to be superstitious.