Amy describes the birth of her first, Luca, as a dream water birth and everything her and her husband could have hoped for.

Miranda was induced at 41+5 weeks after two stretch and sweeps didn’t quite do the job. Around 18 hours after her induction, things started to ramp up and within 3 hours of labour and 20 minutes of pushing Miranda got to meet her first baby, Conor.

Paige went nearly two weeks overdue, opting not to be induced to let her body go into labour naturally. Her second stretch and sweep got things moving, but it was a long labour after that. Using gas as pain management and chicken crimpies between contractions for energy, beautiful Sage was born!

With a bicornuate (a loved shaped) uterus, a breached baby resulting in weeks of monitoring and trying to get him to spin, an induction and an emergency cesarean, Hannah brought beautiful baby Fletcher earth side.

Tara thought her waters broke at home, only to find she was losing cups and cups of blood.

Laura gave birth to Toby after being induced at 38 weeks due to him measuring quite big, particularly his head (>99 percentile). She delivered him with a private OB at John James hospital and writes beautifully and positively about her experience.

Keely went into premature labour at 33 weeks. Steroids for bub’s developing lungs in case she did arrive early and drugs to slow down/stop contractions got Keely to 35 weeks when her waters broke out at dinner!

At 41 weeks and 6 days, Bri was ready for her son to be born. Cervadil tape and a breaking of the waters kicked things off, with things going from zero to 100 very quickly.

Taylor, mum of two boys Lincoln and Marcus, had a successful VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean), after her first birth almost two years prior resulted in an emergency caesarean section and a loss of 2.2 litres of blood.

Katy approached the births of her two kids, Halle (4) and Tommy (2) very differently.

Katie explains the birth of her son Leroy as beautiful, completely natural, intervention free and drug free.

Both of Bec’s boys, Noah (3) and Hugo (5 months) came before her due date. Both times her waters broke early. Both times her midwife was on holidays and both times were a vaginal birth. But that’s where the similarities stopped.

First time mama Chelsea endured 47 hours of labour before her son Elliot was born.