Babies & Pregnancy topics
- Alcohol, smoking and drug use in pregnancy
- Baby and child nutrition
- Baby's health
- Blood and the rhesus factor
- Child-rearing and child development
- Childbirth and pain relief
Childbirth and pain relief
Find out what happens during labour and the process of giving birth.
Childbirth: drug-free home birth
Read the story of Vanessa, who had a drug-free delivery in a birth centre for her first baby and chose to have her second baby at home in the bath!
Childbirth: elective Caesarean
Why one woman chose to avoid the pain of childbirth by having an elective Caesarean section and her experience.
Epidurals
Learn about the anaesthetic procedure often used in childbirth, known as an epidural.
Labour pain: water, massage and acupuncture "may work"
Immersion in water, acupuncture, relaxation and massage "may work" in relieving labour pain, Cochrane review finds.
Obese women more likely to need labour induced
Obese women are more likely to have overdue pregnancies and require induction of labour than women of normal weight, but do not have more delivery complications, a study shows.
Preterm labour
Going into labour before your 37th week of pregnancy is called preterm labour, or premature labour.
Vaginal birth risky after first caesarean
The risks of trying for a vaginal birth after previously having had a caesarean may have been underestimated, an Australian study shows.
Read the story of Vanessa, who had a drug-free delivery in a birth centre for her first baby and chose to have her second baby at home in the bath!
Childbirth: elective Caesarean
Why one woman chose to avoid the pain of childbirth by having an elective Caesarean section and her experience.
Epidurals
Learn about the anaesthetic procedure often used in childbirth, known as an epidural.
Labour pain: water, massage and acupuncture "may work"
Immersion in water, acupuncture, relaxation and massage "may work" in relieving labour pain, Cochrane review finds.
Obese women more likely to need labour induced
Obese women are more likely to have overdue pregnancies and require induction of labour than women of normal weight, but do not have more delivery complications, a study shows.
Preterm labour
Going into labour before your 37th week of pregnancy is called preterm labour, or premature labour.
Vaginal birth risky after first caesarean
The risks of trying for a vaginal birth after previously having had a caesarean may have been underestimated, an Australian study shows.
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