Australian Birth Stories
By Sophie Walker
A Podcast of Mothers' stories of childbirth. Weekly interviews with mothers giving their first hand accounts of child birth in Australia. Designed to help educate and inform first time pregnant women, parents wanting to have better subsequent births and birth enthusiasts who love to hear and tell birth stories. An entertaining and heartfelt resource for pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum.
Latest episode
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534 | Candice - Long fertility journey, pregnancy loss, low AMH, and IVF
In this week's episode, I chat to Candice about her challenging journey to motherhood. After experiencing two miscarriages and discovering she had low ovarian reserve at just 32, Candice and her husband Tom turned to IVF with PGT-A testing. She share… -
533 | A GP's Personal Journey Through Birth & Breastfeeding with Dr. Eliza Hannam
In this deeply personal episode, GP and IBCLC Dr. Eliza Hannam shares her varied experiences with birth and breastfeeding across her three children. -
532 | Lila three very different birth experiences, shared care, home birth, Hirschsprung disease
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531 | Naomi's Birth & Postpartum story – homebirth, gestational diabetes, postpartum doula
In today’s episode Naomi takes us through her first pregnancy and admits that she was so focussed on her birth preparation that she didn’t once think about her postpartum journey. Her birth was challenging and the newborn days were full of anxiety, s… -
530 | Taylah's Quadruplet Journey - IVF, High-Risk Pregnancy, Caesarean Birth
Today we welcome Taylah Tudehope-Glachan who shares her extraordinary journey of conceiving and birthing quadruplets. Taylah and her husband Sean's path to parenthood was complicated by PCOS diagnosed at age 21 and she later discovered she also suffe… -
529 | Tayla - MGP, unmedicated, physiological, unplanned Home Birth
In this episode Tayla shares her empowering journey to motherhood, culminating in an unexpected but beautiful home birth. Her story highlights the power of preparation, surrender, and trusting your body's innate wisdom. -
528 | Elizabeth - second positive physiological birth, MGP, tens machine, 4.58Kg baby
In this episode, we welcome Elizabeth back to share her second birth story. You can listen to her first birth experience in episode 427. Elizabeth lives in Brisbane with her husband Lindsay and their two children - Margaret (2) and Wesley (4 months).… -
527 | Hanna, Homebirth transfer, autoimmune disease, psoriatic arthritis, prolapse, breastfeeding challenges
Today we welcome Hanna, who shares her journey through pregnancy, birth, and a particularly challenging postpartum period complicated by autoimmune disease. Originally from Poland and now living on the Bellarine Peninsula with her husband Zach and th… -
526 | [Replay] Paige - Positive birth, Intervention free, MGP, CAPS, the birth class, spontaneous labour, fetal ejection reflex
In this episode Paige shares her incredibly positive first birth experience. If you are new to the podcast or feel like you want an encouraging story to inspire you, this is it. After conceiving easily, she started listening to the podcast and knew s… -
525 | Cassie - Three Births, Postnatal Anxiety, Identical Twins, Mental Health Journey
In today's episode, Cassie shares her profound journey into motherhood as an early years teacher who experienced three births and navigated postnatal anxiety. After carefully planning their family with husband James, they welcomed three daughters - N…
