Pregnancy health centre

Your partner, your mum, sister or best friends are all options.

Learn more about the dad's role during baby's birth.

Choosing your personal birthing plan – and the delivery method that's right for you.

A caesarean section or c-section is an operation to deliver a baby.

As long as it is not an emergency, take time before making your choice.

Around 1-in-10 women have infections after C-sections.

Where’s the best place to give birth? Weigh up the pros and cons.

A midwife is the expert in normal pregnancy and birth.

A water delivery can be done at home, in a birthing centre or in a hospital.

A birthing ball, or birth ball, is similar to a big exercise ball.

Many new parents request vaginal seeding for their newborn, but what is it and is it beneficial?

Before labour begins, practice contractions, called Braxton Hicks contractions, may occur.

Some women experience very distinct signs of labour, while others do not.

The mucus plug builds up in the cervix - the opening from the uterus to the vagina - during pregnancy.

Some women opt for focused breathing while others chose other pain relief methods.

Unpicking myths from facts on non-medical ways for inducing labour naturally.

Here are some of the top techniques many women try to encourage labour.

Reasons for inducing labour include late delivery or medical complications.

Learn about common labour and delivery complications.

What is premature labour (preterm labour) and premature birth?

Learn more about the childbirth tear or cut.

Learn more about heavy bleeding after childbirth and what to do.

Being pregnant and giving birth puts pressure on your pelvic floor muscles.

Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat certain conditions.

Circumcision of a newborn son is a family decision, not a medical one.

What's normal after giving birth?

VBAC or vaginal birth after caesarean is when a woman gives birth vaginally, having had a past c-section.