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Australian Birth Stories

Australian Birth Stories

By: Sophie Walker
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 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.

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Episodes
  • 603 | Gen's Second Birth Story: From IVF challenges to a powerfully healing birth experience

    603 | Gen's Second Birth Story: From IVF challenges to a powerfully healing birth experience
    Apr 12 2026

    In this deeply honest and often hilarious episode, Gen returns to share her second pregnancy and birth story - a journey that took her from secondary fertility struggles through severe hyperemesis gravidarum to achieving her dream maternal-assisted delivery. After trying to conceive naturally for six months following her first birth, Gen found herself back in the IVF clinic, this time juggling appointments with a toddler in tow. Her second pregnancy brought challenges she hadn't anticipated, including borderline hyperemesis that lasted well into her third trimester, but also the opportunity to process her first birth experience and advocate fiercely for what she wanted this time around.


    Today's episode is brought to you by Rommer, an Australian children's lifestyle brand that truly gets family life.


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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • 602 | Building Breastfeeding Confidence with IBCLC Dr Amber Hart

    602 | Building Breastfeeding Confidence with IBCLC Dr Amber Hart
    Apr 2 2026

    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 HERE


    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.



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    43 mins
  • 601 | Lucy's Story of an Emergency Caesarean, Twin birth, Redefining Body Image After Birth

    601 | Lucy's Story of an Emergency Caesarean, Twin birth, Redefining Body Image After Birth
    Mar 30 2026

    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

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    1 hr and 4 mins
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Educational and informative. So wonderful to hear different Mother's stories and how they dealt with and thrived through their unique journeys.

Educational and informative

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I started listening to this podcast preconception of my first baby. I’m still listening two years later but this pregnancy decide to try a few other podcasts whilst I awaited new episodes each week. It wasn’t until listening to other pregnancy and birth podcasts out there that I truly realised how amazing this podcast really is. No other podcast shares such a wide array of birth and pregnancy stories, attitudes and models of care in such a friendly and unbiased way. Sophie Walker is an excellent host who guides her guests through their stories without judgment and lets her guests share their honest experiences. I also appreciate how she is careful not to give medical advice or opinion that would bias or discredit her podcast. Thank you for creating this podcast, I eagerly await each new episode!

The best and most balanced pregnancy podcast

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Brilliant podcast!
Can't recommend enough if your pregnant or ttc.
Sophie has all the right questions and has interviewed women with all sorts of starts middle and ends with pregnancy.

Highly recommend

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This is such a beautiful, heartwarming podcast that shares important information about conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. It was an important part of my birth prep and two years later I still really enjoy listening to these amazing stories of strength and magic in birth.

Birth education at its best

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