labour

Many women carefully consider the risks of ‘freebirth’ but often consider things such as unwanted intervention and birth trauma as a risk in itself that they find unacceptable.

Jenny McAllister recently delivered a speech reflecting on the role women played in shaping Australia’s labour movement.

Induction of labour can be life-saving in some situations. But women are increasingly induced for non-medical reasons, and earlier in their pregnancies.

The weekend before giving birth to my first child, I was in the audience of a hypnotist show.