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Sophie's birth experience is so beautifully written, and was super wrapped when she agreed to share this amazing story with us on the Birthmother community blog. Before we get into the story il just add that:Sophie is currently a doula in training with the Australian Doula College. She's looking to support a few soon to be mums/dads in Adelaide. Also covering the Fleurieu Peninsula and Adelaide Hi …

Reagan placed a hire of a birth pool and a CUB long before her EDD. A week before she was due to pick up her hire around 36 weeks, she contacted me letting me know that her baby recently started presenting breech and that she will try everything to encourage him to turn around. She really wanted  her home birth.In Australia, a breech birth is considered risky, therefore Reagan would be r …

What made you decide on having a home birth and was your husband on board with it?I done a weekly dance class with the lovely Nicole from Mind, Bump & Birth Hypnobirthing. She is also a midwife so just has an abundance of knowledge. We would talk weekly about pregnancy, birth and how I was scared. She coached me away from my fears, without her I wouldn't know about home birth, how safe it is …

Matilda’s birth story Our journey with Matilda started many years before she was conceived. In 2018, shortly after we were engaged, we laid in bed one night & definitively decided that our first daughter would be named Matilda. Over the years between that night & Matilda’s conception, I felt her spirit with us so strongly. Alongside this knowing that Matilda was waiting to join us, we had …

When my husband and I were thinking about what we wanted the birth of our second child to look and feel like, we knew we wanted it to be different than our first. Although my first labour was not overly traumatic, there had been some unnecessary interventions and some disempowering experiences in hospital. We pictured a low intervention, physiological birth and felt supported in this when we were …