Prepare for a positive birth experience with our new book
The Two Week Wait
10 Questions To Ask Your Care Provider
Budgeting for a Baby
Your Pregnancy Care Options
How to Prepare for a Positive Induction (plus five positive induction stories)
Six things you may not know about the hours after a caesarean birth
A Guide to Packing Your Nappy Bag
Everything You Need to Know About “Baby Brain”
Everything you need as you journey through pregnancy and prepare for a positive birth experience.
Here's the book that shares the wisdom of women and their birth stories, so that you can make informed and empowered decisions.
The Complete Australian Guide to Pregnancy and Birth draws on the expertise of dozens of doctors, midwives and other health specialists to offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date information about pregnancy, labour, birth and early postpartum in Australia.
Hi there, I’m Sophie — host of the top-rated weekly podcast Australian Birth Stories (11 million downloads and counting), creator of educational programs for pregnancy and motherhood, and mother to 3 boys under 9.
I have a Masters in Public Health, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve been deeply interested in babies and birth; a fascination that only amplified when I became pregnant with my eldest son, Niko. Despite planning for a drug-free birth centre birth, what unfolded was a lengthy 36 hour labour with a hospital transfer, induction, epidural, episiotomy, forceps, and a postpartum haemorrhage...
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