Book Review – Birth After Caesarean
Book Review “Birth after Caesarean” by Hazel Keedle (Australia 2022) 1 in 3 women in Australia have a caesarean as a mode of birth. Chances …
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How does advanced maternal age affect pregnancy and birth?
Advanced maternal age (AMA) is a term that is used to describe pregnant women over a certain age bracket. Unfortunately the term is not clearly …
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Book Review – Birth Skills by Juju Sundin
Book Review – Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills with Sarah Murdouch Book Review written by Jade Ball While planning for the birth of my second daughter …
Book Review – Expecting Better
Expecting Better – Emily Oster A book review by doula Nadine Lloyd I loved every minute of reading this book, its wasn’t like reading your …
The Rising Tide of Water Births
Over the past decade there has been a steady rise of women taking back control over where and how they birth their babies. Along with …
Retained Placenta: The What, the How and the What’s Next
Have you heard of a retained placenta? If you have, it’s probably been at the end of a particularly worrying birth story, but if you …
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Whenua to Whenua: The regeneration of life
The placenta, what an incredible organ. Mother and baby’s first project that they work on together to sustain and bring forth life. The placenta gives …
Book Review – The Birth Space
Just before Christmas, I found myself in my local Kmart. Throngs of people were filling the store, and shopping trolleys were filling just as determinedly. …
Vaginal Seeding – what is that?
The hot topic landing on our lips recently is “vaginal seeding.” You may have heard of it recently in the last few years or it …
Aromatherapy and essential oils in labour
Essential oils have become somewhat of a craze in recent years thanks to companies like Young Living and doTERRA. It seems like there is an …