If you’re a parent, you’ve probably heard about the cry it out method to get your baby to sleep. Well-meaning family or friends might suggest letting your baby cry himself to sleep, so he can ‘learn ...

Informing yourself and opting for natural methods of pain relief during labour makes so much sense. After having spent so much time during pregnancy avoiding medications, there’s a smorgasbord offered ...

Like most pregnant women, you’ll probably reach a certain point during pregnancy when you’ve had enough. Enough of being pregnant, uncomfortable, sore and tired. Enough of waiting to meet the tiny ...

Vaginal tears that occur during labour are experienced by around 90% of women. In fact, minor tears are so common (99% of all tears are minor) and heal quite fast, that it appears to be a normal part ...

After giving birth, it’s common for women to be told they needed intervention or a c-section because their baby was “stuck” and couldn’t be born vaginally. Do so many babies really get stuck during ...

In the last decade, there’s been a great deal of attention on postnatal depression (also known as postpartum depression), and quite rightly so. There’s also been a lot more focus on supporting women ...

Your newborn baby is the most precious thing in the whole world to you (or one of, if you have more kids). You worry about everything from hot drinks, stray dogs, sunburn. You name, you worry about it ...

For centuries, women have sought relief from the pain of childbirth. Until the 1800s, most women gave birth at home, with the help of other women and the local midwife. For the most part, women bore ...

No matter how long you breastfeed your baby, and regardless of whether your breastfeeding journey was easy or challenging, there comes a time when breastfeeding stops. If you think you might be coming ...

If you’re pregnant, you’ve probably heard about different herbal teas and their health benefits or contraindications. Red raspberry leaf tea is one of the herbal remedies that offers many health ...

Although birth is the same process today as it was many hundreds of years ago, over time, the care women received during childbirth has seen some dramatic changes. These changes have come with a ...

The physical act of birth might not have changed since the dawn of time, but the practices surrounding birth definitely have. Little is known about childbirth practices before recorded history. We can ...