Sensible Birth

03/09/2026

Read more in the latest George Herald 🗞️

18/07/2026

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25/06/2026

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I don't know what pregnant mom with sore ni***es needs to hear this, but you do NOT need to harvest anything before baby is born.

What was once suggested as an option for parents anticipating immediate seperation or blood sugar issues in baby has become an expectation for ALL breastfeeding moms thanks to social media trends and syringe kits ....

If you WANT to harvest AND it doesn't hurt, go for it 🤷🏽‍♀️

But there is absolutely no reason to stress yourself, be uncomfortable, or spend money to collect colostrum when our bodies have a physiological process for lactation that begins AFTER the placenta detaches.

Your ability to collect colostrum before birth has no bearing on your ability to breastfeed.

The placenta detaching tells your body it's time to begin lactation. Baby latching tells your body there is in fact a baby demanding milk and it needs to supply.

The first day of life, we expect baby to take drips as small frequent feeds. From there, until about day 3-5, we are thinking teaspons, not ounces. Once mature milk comes in around 3-5 and until day 10 when their belly grows to the size of a chicken egg, it is still small frequent feeds.

Unless you need to or desire to pump right after birth, giving baby too much prenatally expressed colostrum can fill their belly and keep them from latching and telling your body to make more milk.

Expressed colostrum is more indicated for:

✨️Larger than average or smaller than average babies, or babies born to diabetic moms, who are more likely to have clinically significant blood sugar challenges the first day of life.

✨️Preterm babies who are too small to orally feed and latch

✨️Babies who require high oxygen support and cannot safely orally feed

✨️Medically necessary mother baby separation where one needs a higher level of intensive care that cannot be done bedside

If you want to, express away. But please never think you need to or that it increases breastfeeding.

06/06/2026

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The birth world is full of people trying to sound certain.
Confident.
Empowering.
Expert enough.

Meanwhile women are quietly drowning in shame, grief, confusion and stories they don’t know what to do with.

The birth space does not need more polished personalities.
Or people trying to curate the image of being the “perfect” birth expert.

It needs more people who can sit in the complexity of birth without bypassing it.

More people who don’t panic when a woman says:
“I think my birth broke something in me.”

More people who understand that not every wound is caused by an emergency.
And not every “positive” birth feels okay afterwards.

And while systemic problems in maternity care absolutely exist…
simply villainising the medical system is not the same thing as helping someone heal.

Because sometimes women still carry pain after a medically necessary birth.
Sometimes they feel conflicted.
Sometimes they feel gratitude and grief.
Sometimes the deepest wound is not what was done to them, but the meaning they made about themselves afterwards.

Women do not need birth workers who only know how to blame, reassure or repeat trendy talking points.

They need people who know how to truly listen.
How to stay present.
How to work with stories, identity, grief, disappointment, rage, guilt and meaning.

That’s part of what we teach in Part 1.

Not scripts.
Not saviourism.
Not simplistic answers.

The deeper human skills birth work has been missing.

Become a Birth Story Listener in 2026. Our next Part 1 (of 3 parts total) begins in August. Comment BIRTH for more info.

01/05/2026

What Is The Cascade Of Intervention?
Sometimes, the reason we need these riskier birth interventions is because we have chosen a small intervention, which has led to a bigger intervention, which has then led to a riskier intervention.

This is known as the cascade of intervention.

When you choose even a small intervention and, as a direct result, another intervention becomes necessary, you’ve fallen into the cascade of intervention.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/the-cascade-of-intervention-what-you-need-to-know/

14/04/2026

This resonates profoundly with me, but do bear in mind that discomfort and hard work, as is implied by the word "labour" does not equate to suffering.

I believe the below is meant as a reminder that you have immense strength within you and that this strength is developed as you mature in motherhood♥️

"As a society, we are so uncomfortable with being uncomfortable. We desperately try to bypass being uncomfortable and we measure our success by how well we are able to do so."

14/04/2026

You and your baby have a unique and perfect feeding rhythm. Do yourself a favour and remove the word "schedule" from your vocabulary while you have a newborn to nurture ♥️