by Denise Georges | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Breastfeeding is the normal way to feed a baby. Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months (no water, food or other supplements) and continued breastfeeding for up to 2 years and beyond is the recommendation by health organisations around the world, including the World...
by Denise Georges | Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Albert Einstein looked at the state of the world late in his career and said ‘It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.’ A commonly held belief is that birth technology makes things safer, faster, and better, but this is not...
by Denise Georges | Jun 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Oh the pain! Probably the biggest reason women fear childbirth right? We are so accustomed to avoiding pain at all costs, why go through it to meet our child? Well, there are some important reasons which I’ll get to. But, do we really avoid pain at all costs? ...
by Denise Georges | Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
In a country such as Australia, where we can afford high quality maternity care and have fairly equal access to it, you would think we don’t have much to worry about when it comes to maternal health rights. But you’d be wrong. Since beginning my path into birth...
by Denise Georges | Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
A few days ago I started an online petition using the change.org platform asking a well known and loved Sydney organisation, Taronga Zoo, to stop the sale of plastic items at this years VIVID light festival. This festival attracts thousands of visitors to the zoo, and...
by morrisbear | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
I believe women are extraordinarily powerful. Women who choose to birth their babies at home are women who realise this truth, and come into their full life-giving potency with incredible vigour and trust in their capabilities. These are not women who choose to ‘go...
by morrisbear | Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’m guessing very few, if any, and this makes me immeasurably sad to my core. I believe every birth story deserves to be shared. Every traumatic story needs to be voiced. Every woman who has a bad birth experience needs to be heard and needs to heal. However, I...
by morrisbear | Sep 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
When it comes to your baby’s birth day, your baby knows best. In my last post, which you can access here, I discussed the true medical reasons induction may be safer than allowing labour to start on it’s own. However, many of the 28% of women in Australia who...
by morrisbear | Aug 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
Who should decide when your baby is ready to be born? It’s a bit of a strange question isn’t it? But think about it in context of the natural world first, a world we are a part of but sometimes so far removed from, especially when it comes to birth. In nature we...
by morrisbear | Aug 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
I was ill prepared to be a mum. Labour and birth? Bring it on! Thanks to my Lamaze prenatal classes I knew what I needed to do during labour to find comfort without drugs, to feel supported and to advocate for myself to have the birth I wanted. But after that...
