Australian Birth Stories
Sophie Walker
5.0from 2,153 ratings
- 643
- Episodes
- 186
- Transcribed
- 2,153
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Australian Birth Stories
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.
- Publisher
- Sophie Walker
- Category
- kids & family
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 May 2017
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
186 of 643 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
637 | Beth - two physiological births, MGP, unmedicated hospital birth and a family centered home birth
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
636 | Sarah Viliamu - two contrasting births, induction, miscarriage, pregnancy after loss, doula support, spontaneous labour, Pink Elephants
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mel | IVF, emergency caesarean, postpartum anxiety and depression, mother and baby unit stay
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637 | Beth - two physiological births, MGP, unmedicated hospital birth and a family centered home birth
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. Did you know much? You're obviously doing a lot of work on yourself and your own health and you've got sort of your sister's medical background in there as well, no doubt. Did you know much about your birthing options? Had you kind of travelled into that field yet? uh I did I'm like again I feel grateful to like my sister and you know my neighbor and just like the few other people close to me that had become mums before me um so yeah I knew that I wanted to like try to get into the midwife group practice um and I did kind of shared care with my doctor for a portion of it um but yeah like This is one thing I feel disappointed about, like looking back at that birth, was that I basically tried to get into the midwife group practice and it was kind of like an administrative error, but we didn't get in. […]
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- Beth
- Sarah Viliamu
- Mel
- Marielle Smith
- Mia
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 148 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2,005 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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