Hospital Birth Stories2022-05-10T13:23:39+10:00

Hospital Birth Stories

In this section of our website you can read stories about other parents’ experiences of hospital. Pregnancy and birth stories are a great way to learn about situations similar or different to your own. We’d love you to send us your own story to share with others.

Public hospital hands-off physiological water birth

At PBB we want to share with you the wonder of birth and the options you have open to you. A beautiful video featuring the birth story of Elouise. This birth is in a public hospital and is a hands-off physiological water birth. Elouise's parents completed hypnobirthing training through Belly2Birth Hypnobirthing www.belly2birth.com.au with Shari. This beautiful video is created by Kirby from Olive Juice Lifestyle Photography. Thank you to this beautiful family who allowed Kirby to capture

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Toki Castro-Tover Birth story

Saturday morning, June 1, 2015, I woke up with this crazy urge. Pee. I get up, or instead, I roll out of bed and head to the bathroom (I am on my 38th week of pregnancy). Everything goes as usual, so I head back to bed. Check the time… it’s 3:30 am. I was lying there WIDE awake at this point, just trying to flop around and get comfortable, when I felt a small warm surge flow out of

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Why Choose a Midwife?

I grew up hearing many horror birth stories, including my mother’s, and had little trust in my body or the birth process. I grew up thinking that once I was pregnant, I would see an obstetrician and I assumed he would tell me that I was like my mother and my pelvis was just not the right shape for babies, and I would have to have my babies via caesarean. And I was okay with that. It sounded much

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Tammy’s Birth Story – Induction in Hospital

For me labour was definitely not what I was expecting. In the weeks leading up I did what most expectant mothers did, I read every source I could on labour and birth so I could be prepared as possible. My husband had a fairly good idea of when the baby was conceived so I naturally thought I would be into labour right on schedule. Boy was I wrong. My due day came and went. Each night I would wake

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Pregnancy and Birth Story

Danielle is married and has two beautiful daughters, 3 yr old Georgia and 6 week old Elise. This is the pregnancy and birth story of Danielle's daughter Elise. Relaxed, calm childbirth... surely after having a child before and thinking I knew what I was in for, means I could be ready for it, and be able to have that...apparently, I had absolutely no idea what I was in for. My first birth was reasonably short at 7.5 hours and

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Induction of labour against my wishes

I was induced much to my disapproval and disappointment, but I felt bulled into following the doctor's orders, like the scraping test. I had gestational diabetes which was diet controlled. They said my baby was macrosomic and they did not want me to go past 40 weeks and 2 days. They started my induction by inserting a pessary in my vagina at 4 pm by 2 am they wanted to speed things up so they ruptured my membranes, I

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Birth of Seth

Hi, I am a 22-year-old Australian and this is my story, Birth of Seth. I was 16 years old when I first found out I was pregnant, I was very happy but scared as well, I guess the hardest part was to tell our parents & at that time I was living with my in-laws as I had ran away from home only 3 months before, When we told both our parents they were upset but very supportive, my

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Our true little miracle

Molly-Rose was born on the 5th February 2003 at 25 weeks (3 months early), she is our true little miracle. Little did we know when we made the big decision to start a family what lay ahead. We started IVF in August 2002, keeping a very positive and open mind as we knew it could possibly be a long road. We took the normal course of drugs and then came the big day, they put two little embryos back

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Joshua’s Birth Story

This is Joshua's birth story. Lack of information or choice, premature labour, medical crises, insensitive or undignified care can all conspire against an active birth and a positive start to mothering.  Jane Palmer describes how her son's birth didn't go according to plan. Unsuccessful External Cephalic Version (ECV) I was 35 weeks pregnant and had found out the previous week that my baby was breech. My doctor had tried to turn him unsuccessfully (twice). He referred me to a

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Susan’s Birth Story

This is Susan's birth story - No epidural, no pain medications, forceps, fourth-degree episiotomy After a perfect pregnancy, my due date of November 5 2001 came and went. I decided not to be induced unless there was a medical reason. There never was. I also planned to go natural, even though it was my first. I figured I take really good care of my body and that of the baby's for 9 months, why put unnecessary chemicals in our

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Tien’s Story

Tien's Story - My name is Tien. I am a mother of 3 and the 4th on the way, currently 30wks pregnant with a baby boy. I would like to congratulate you on your pregnancy, birth and beyond website, I loved it, especially the birth stories. Your website is very informative and educational. I see that you only had one teenage birth story online so I would like to share my birth stories with you. When I was 15yrs

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Birth Story

My story is not very happy, but I truly believe it is worth telling so that other parents can prepare themselves properly. She died during the birth. I had to be induced as Olivia had Hydrops fetalis, which is fluid retention around the baby and the baby's vital organs. The doctors said that she would have a less than 5% chance of survival, and her head was already the size of a full-term baby at birth. I tell this

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Trudy’s Story

When I was pregnant with my first son I found out that I had an ovarian cyst.  The ovarian cyst burst several times during the first 22 weeks of pregnancy and my doctors told me that there was nothing they could do.  Finally, after it burst a final time they decided to send me to a Gynaecologist who told me to come back the following day and have it removed surgically or risk death to either myself, the baby

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Breech Of Faith

A breech of faith - I have decided to begin the birth story of my third child. This is while waiting for the active phase of my labour. At present, I have begun a slow process of contracting. Which is far different from the progress of my first two children. Needless to say, the phrase "no two labours are alike" plays out well here. But then again, this whole pregnancy has been so very different. I sit here at

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Jessica’s Birth Story

Hello! My name is Jessica Vickers, and I would like to share with you my birth story. After reading some of the stories on your website, I realised just how lucky I was! On Monday, the 18th of March it was a terribly hot day. I had just returned home from doing some shopping up the street and was enjoying a cool shower when I felt a small pop. Thinking this may have finally been my waters breaking, I

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Christina’s Birth Story

This is Christina's birth story. The memory of giving birth to my first daughter, Christina is so fresh in my mind, it could have been yesterday. From 28 weeks into the pregnancy onwards, my blood pressure was high, and my baby was failing to thrive, therefore, at 38 weeks, with a warning that I would have a small baby, labour was induced. I arrived at the maternity department of the hospital at 8.00 am to be checked in. At

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