Wish ListPregnancy Stories
In this section of our website you can read stories about other parents’ experiences of being pregnant. 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.
Made with Love – The Pregnancy Journey
In my pregnancies, I love to watch videos that highlight the pregnancy journey. I find being pregnant is an extraordinary experience. Having a new life develop within my body – ahh nothing can compare. In other words, the excitement of being pregnant, feeling the growing baby within my body and looking forward to meeting my new baby. First Pregnancy – Breech Birth While pregnancy has its ups and downs, it can be so overwhelmingly positive. Pregnancy is different for
Childbirth, Our Choice
This is our story of childbirth, our choice. This was the moment, Peta looked at me just before leaving the room to use the test kit! I was somewhat indifferent at the time, strangely perhaps due to optimism, and that this “action” was a mere formality. Peta returned shortly with a wry smile on her face, the smile grew bigger as we both realised the outcome. Peta was pregnant! This would be our first! We had considered long before
Long Wait (2007)
Hello, my name is Sylvia Christofis and I am 39 years old. I am expecting my second child in 17 years. My son Steven was born in December 1989. I had four months of bad morning sickness until 16 weeks and trouble-free pregnancy until I reached 35 weeks. At that stage, I developed High Blood pressure and was hospitalised for the remainder of the pregnancy. At 38 weeks I was induced and told that I would need to have
Claytons Pregnancy (2002)
Last year, I went to the doctor complaining of tender breasts. I was asked to give details of my last menstrual cycle. Come to think, I remember saying, it has been a while. The doctor gave me a urine test and it gave a positive result. She then proceeds to send me to the Pathology for me to give blood. The results were phoned to me the next day. To my shock, the result was a definite negative. I
Preventing Postpartum Haemorrhage with Prenatal Care
When I set out on the journey of planning our fourth baby, I knew I would be labelled 'high risk' by the medical profession due to previous postpartum haemorrhages (PPHs) during my second and third births. My first two births were in hospital. I was inducded for the first and, as a consequence, then experienced further interventions. My seond birth, 21 months later, was spontaneous and largely intervention-free, but with a managed third stage. I suffered a large PPH
For Ethan
I have always wanted to be a mother. As a child I played with the role, through my adolescence I dreamed of it, and as an adult, I held it as my greatest goal. I had always known, or at least believed, that I would have a son. Fortune tellers in their droves had confirmed it, and neither my realisation that I was lesbian nor a specialist telling me I was infertile, could shake my resolve. I would have
I’ll Never Get Pregnant
Natalie stared down blankly at another negative strip of plastic, urine covered let down. Ten months and still nothing. She hardly expected to see a second line, but that didn’t dampen the hard slap in the face that it was every time she saw such faceless rejection. “I should have had my baby by now,” She whispered to herself, quietly, alone in her small en suite bathroom. Tossing the useless piece of wasted money into the small bathroom bin
The First Time I Met You
In November 2009 when my oldest daughter was five years old and in her last year of daycare, the children in her class became interested in birth. The teachers, seeing a chance to explore this with them, asked the parents to write about the first time they had met their child. The aim was to make a book the children could share, filled with stories that were all about them. While most of the stories were about birth itself, Finlay’s