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Women’s birth plans have become increasingly elaborate in recent years.

Looking back, my birth plan was delusional. I wouldn’t change a thing

When I went into labour, I wasn’t cracking jokes in the delivery suite. But now, I recognise absurd mirth in the day, and in the expectations I held for how it would go.

  • Wendy Syfret

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Anja and Ryan Adams were racing down the Princes Highway when they had to pull over. Their son Soli couldn't wait any longer.
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The triple zero call that captured a miraculous one in 80,000 birth

Anja and Ryan Adams were racing down the Princes Highway when they had to pull over. Their son Soli couldn't wait any longer.

The Triple Zero call from Soli Adams’ birth on the side of the Princes Highway in 2021.

Anja gave birth on the side of the road. Listen to the triple-zero call

Maternity hospital closures are forcing labouring women to travel hundreds of kilometres across “maternity deserts” to give birth.

  • Kate Aubusson
Mother and child doing well: Bethany Williams with her daughter.

Instagram almost shamed me into refusing pain relief in childbirth

Social media algorithms told me that I had to give birth at home, without drugs. But my baby didn’t care about the influencers’ rules around childbirth.

  • Bethany Williams
If the impasse cannot be resolved by Monday, Gosford Hospital’s obstetrics and gynaecology services risk going on bypass.

Hospital stripped of trainee doctors over staff, patient welfare concerns

The Central Coast’s only public obstetric and gynaecology service is about to be severely depleted with the temporary loss of accredited trainee doctors.

  • Kate Aubusson
Doctors say women are waiting more than a year to see a gynaecologist or obstetrician at Gosford Hospital.

This hospital will soon have 12 births a day. Women in labour may be raced down a highway

Women giving birth could be loaded into ambulances and raced 100km down the M1 from Monday because of a critical staffing shortage.

  • Kate Aubusson
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Keira Rumble.

‘I thought I was insane’: Doctors kept ignoring Keira’s pain. It almost killed her

Keira Rumble was a victim of a poorly researched health phenomenon known as medical misogyny. Its consequences can be fatal.

  • Kate Aubusson and Wendy Tuohy
Maddie Thwaites and Ciaran McAuley with their two-year-old daughter, Mairead.

‘I am just so thankful’: The test that let little Mairead beat the odds

The findings of a landmark genetic study bolster calls for the federal government to establish a free expanded carrier screening program.

  • Kate Aubusson
Louis Taffs was conceived by sperm donor, but is yet to meet his biological father.

At 26, I don’t know if my donor father is dead or alive – or if I’m ready to find out

Donor children now are born with a set of relationships with people known, yet to be known, and, for some, forever unknowable.

  • Louis Taffs
Sam Kerr has announced she is expecting her first child with partner Kristie Mewis.

Sam Kerr announces she is to become a mother

The Matildas star took to social media on Monday night to share the news that her partner, Kristie Mewis, is pregnant.

  • Riley Walter

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