Show overview
Australian Birth Stories has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 618 episodes. That works out to roughly 640 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 52 min and 1h 12m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Kids & Family show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 87 episodes published. Published by Sophie Walker.
From the publisher
A Podcast of Mothers' stories of childbirth. Weekly interviews with mothers giving their first hand accounts of child birth in Australia. Designed to help educate and inform first time pregnant women, parents wanting to have better subsequent births and birth enthusiasts who love to hear and tell birth stories. An entertaining and heartfelt resource for pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest Episodes
View all 618 episodes617 | Hannah Home Water Birth with a 5.2kg Baby, Physiological Birth with Private Midwifery Care
Fourth Trimester Village | Francesca Hung , Precipitous Labour and Finding Your Villange in Postpartum
615 | Hana identical twins, vaginal twin birth, breech second twin, no epidural, postpartum village, breastfeeding twins
Fourth Trimester Village | Dr Nicole Gale, newborn sleep, breastfeeding support, matrescence, postnatal loneliness
Update from Sophie
The Fourth Trimester Village: Postpartum Movement & Recovery: Getting Back Out There with women's health physio Heidi
613 | Jordan, MGP, physiological first birth, The Birth Class, pelvic floor physio, water birth
The Fourth Trimester Village - Matrescence, Motherhood Rage & the Making of a Mother with Dr Edna Lekgabe
611 | Renako, two births, COSMOS programme, emergency caesarean, planned caesarean, postnatal support
610 | Beth - two physiological births, MGP, unmedicated hospital birth and a family centered home birth
609 | Managing Pregnancy Aches, Pelvic Pain & Recovery with Osteopath Dr Daniela Aiello
608 | Clare, Maternally Assisted Caesarean, Baby hearing loss, Endometriosis
607 | Molly, Cape York water birth, neurodivergent motherhood, baby pinks experience
606 | Lauren, Six children, doula, identical twins, water birth, precipitous labour
605 | Bettina- Three births across two countries: UK NHS care, Australian private care, and choosing caesarean birth
604 | Tahlia's Journey: From Heart Surgery to NICU Mum - A Story of Resilience and Hope
603 | Gen's Second Birth Story: From IVF challenges to a powerfully healing birth experience
602 | Building Breastfeeding Confidence with IBCLC Dr Amber Hart
Today I sit down with Dr. Amber Hart, a Melbourne-based GP and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Dr. Hart shares her expertise on the realities of breastfeeding, the importance of antenatal education, and addresses the controversial rise in tongue tie diagnoses. Amber offers a refreshing perspective on supporting new mothers through their feeding journeys whilst prioritising mental wellbeing and realistic expectations.Get our how-to Breastfeeding Guide HEREToday’s sponsor is iLTutto iL Tutto is celebrating Easter with something special.For a limited time, you can enjoy up to 50% off their beautiful range of nursery furniture — including Electric Recliners, Glider Nursery Chairs, Cots, Chests with removable changers, plus Boba Carriers and their cosy Grow Kindly Natural Fibre Sleepwear.And here’s something just for you — as a listener of Australian Birth Stories, you’ll receive an extra 5% off. Simply use the code ABS5 at checkout to save even more on top of these amazing sale prices.But be quick — the Easter Sale ends April 6, and the ABS5 code is valid across all reduced items. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
601 | Lucy's Story of an Emergency Caesarean, Twin birth, Redefining Body Image After Birth
Lucy shares her contrasting birth experiences - from an emergency caesarean with her first daughter Ocean at 42+2 weeks, to a planned caesarean with twins Koa and Maddox that took a frightening turn when Maddox was born unresponsive.Today's episode is brought to you by Bare Mum. Explore the full range of birth, recovery and breastfeeding essentials and enjoy 15% off at baremum.com using the code ABS2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
600 | Postpartum - Ruby, breastfeeding, sleep challenges, normal infant biology, low sleep needs
In today’s episode Ruby shares her journey with infant sleep. We all come to postpartum with a predisposed understanding of baby sleep which usually involves the mindset that it’s the parent’s ‘job’ to ‘teach’ the baby to sleep. But as you will hear in this episode, babies have a primal drive to sleep and their sleep needs are ultimately influenced by their temperament. Ruby sought advice from two sleep training experts (which she admits felt counterintuitive), before she found a sleep consultant who specialises in normal infant biology. From here, Ruby grew to understand her baby’s low sleep needs and subsequently surrendered to a sleep journey that looks very different to her initial presumptions of sleep and settling.Today’s sponsor is iLTutto iL Tutto is celebrating Easter with something special.For a limited time, you can enjoy up to 50% off their beautiful range of nursery furniture — including Electric Recliners, Glider Nursery Chairs, Cots, Chests with removable changers, plus Boba Carriers and their cosy Grow Kindly Natural Fibre Sleepwear.And here’s something just for you — as a listener of Australian Birth Stories, you’ll receive an extra 5% off. Simply use the code ABS5 at checkout to save even more on top of these amazing sale prices.But be quick — the Easter Sale ends April 6, and the ABS5 code is valid across all reduced items. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.