Postpartum Guides

A c-section is major abdominal surgery. Seven layers of tissue are cut and repaired. The fact that you're simultaneously caring for a newborn immediately afterward — often on minimal sleep,...

Nobody's favourite topic. Also one of the most common experiences of vaginal birth — and one of the least discussed in antenatal classes, birth books, and pretty much everywhere else...

Every Australian hospital bag list you'll find online spends the first two-thirds covering the baby. Nappies, onesies, wraps, a coming-home outfit, a going-home outfit, a backup going-home outfit. By the...

Nobody told you about this part. You expected some bleeding after birth, you just didn't expect quite this much of it, for quite this long, starting and stopping and changing...