Birthing Options: Essential Baby

Bruna Viera, front left, receives family members in a Sao Paulo hospital while having her hair done. Her son Arthur was ...

'Life is a party': In Brazil, hospitals cater for C-section spectacles

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SA Health discontinues popular teething gel

Popular baby teething gel discontinued due to safety concerns

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Why you may have to be prepared to ditch your birth plan

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The lowdown on male midwives

How would you feel about having a male midwife assist your baby's birth? For a growing number of mums, the idea is a reality - and the experts all agree that it's something that should be encouraged.

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Water birth: the basics

With proper medical attention, water birth is a legitimate and safe way for women to give birth and can help manage pain in labour.

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Choosing a hospital

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Private hospital care

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Public or Private Hospital for the birth: WDYT?

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Public hospital care

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Hospitals are delivering elective caesareans earlier than the recommended term of 39 weeks gestation.

NSW hospitals putting 'babies at risk'

Thirty-eight weeks or 39? Non-medical factors are pushing women to have elective caesareans earlier than official guidelines - and hospitals are playing along.

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Amber Hughes with her husband Daniel and children Kayden, Harvey, Jessica and Olly.

Mum gets caesarean moments after giving birth

A mother has spoken about her shock at doctors performing an emergency caesarean on her after she had already given birth.

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Lead researcher Dr Julie Fleet with the spray.

Nose spray relieves childbirth pain, study finds

Women may soon be able to use a nasal spray for pain relief during childbirth following successful trials by an Australian midwifery researcher.

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Large birth weight forecasts often inaccurate, leading to more caesareans: study

Fewer than 8 per cent of babies born in the United States meet the medical definition of a large baby - but mothers aren't told that.

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Birth trauma

How a traumatic first labour changed my second pregnancy

Losing my daughter after a highly traumatic hospital birth left me open to anything that might result in a different outcome.

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Photo honours baby and his placenta

A black and white image of a newborn baby next to his placenta draws attention to the sacred link between the organ and the land.

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What you need to know about using TENS in labour

Thinking about pain relief options in labour? It's worth considering TENS, says a mum of three.

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How the baby is passed to the mother immediately after the birth.

Nurses invent skin to skin c-section drape

The determination of three US nurses to provide immediate skin to skin contact to mothers delivering their babies by caesarean section has led to the invention of a unique surgical drape.