Birth podcasts

• Birthful – Interviews with women and birth professionals to educate and empower.
• Evidence Based Birth – An exploration of the evidence surrounding different interventions and tests in pregnancy and birth.
• Fear Free Childbirth – Stories and information shared to take the fear out of birth.
• Freebirth Society – A number of beautiful birth stories, discussion around different topics and information about unassisted birth options
• Indie Birth – A gorgeous exploration of various topics surrounding birth as led by two hands-off midwives.
• Keeping Birth Wild – Conversations with mothers who chose to birth their babies at home.
• Midwives Cauldron – A podcast exploring birth and breastfeeding interventions and ideas.
• Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond – A podcast exploring from pregnancy to parenting
• Rockstar Birth Radio – A podcast for women seeking a fabulous birth experience, away from fear.
• The Birth Hour – Beautiful birth stories of all kinds; hospital, home, freebirth, inductions, caesareans, ecstatic/orgasmic births.
• The Circle of Birth – Birth stories told from the women’s perspective. This is a great podcast as it is Australia based.
• The Cord – A mixture of birth stories and informative podcasts with interviews of practitioners from differing modalities.
• VBAC Birth Stories – Sharing of VBAC birth stories, in hospital and at home, and an exploration of the feelings and thoughts of the women who had them.

Parenting podcasts

• Beyond Babyhood – Information about breastfeeding and babywearing
• Doctor Erin’s Podcast – Coaching and help to deal with birth trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and an analysis of different techniques you can use throughout your life and parenting journey.
• Mothering the Mother – A podcast with mums and health professionals talking about the transformative effect, and importance of the right of passage, of becoming a mother.
• The Authentic Parenting Podcast – Talking around the importance of healing from our traumas, breaking away from patterns/triggers, finding our authentic voice in parenting and becoming more mindful in order to show up for our children.
• The Australian Breastfeeding Podcast – A registered midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) interviews new mothers about their experiences with breastfeeding.
• The Cord – A mixture of birth stories and informative podcasts with interviews of practitioners from differing modalities.
• The Longest Shortest Time – Informative interviews and down to earth stories about what it’s like to raise little humans.
• The Gentle Parenting Podcast – A podcast exploring different gentle parenting techniques and how parents deal with various different situations.
• Unruffled – Discussion around ways to best support your child in a respectful, nurturing way, even in those ‘ruffling’ situations.
• Your Parenting Mojo – A podcast exploring the science supporting your child’s developmental and learning needs.

Birth Documentaries

• The Business of Being Born – 1 and 2, looks at issues with maternity system
• The Face of Birth – Australian documentary outlining the importance of choice
• These Are My Hours – A documentary that explores labour and birth from the woman’s perspective
• Why Not Home – Documentary exploring the birth choices of nurses and doctors
• Orgasmic Birth – An exploration into how love and intimacy can create pleasure in birth
• The Big Stretch – 2 separate documentaries exploring birth from interviews with women and birthworkers

TED Talks and Birth Information

• Home or Hospital? Holding the space for human birth
• The not so happy pregnancy diaries
• Waterbirth Evidence Informed Positioning
• Why it matters how we are born
• Who delivered your baby?

Birth Videos

Homebirths

• Eddie’s Birth – A Homebirth With Siblings – Gregarious Peach
• The Birth of Ruby – Jerusha Sutton Photography
• The Homebirth of Rainbow Baby Sam – Life and Lens Photography
• The Home Waterbirth of Margaret – Gregarious Peach
• The Birth of Noa – Jerusha Sutton Photography
• Tatum’s unassisted freebirth
• Homebirth After Caesarean – Gregarious Peach
• The Birth of Beau – Jerusha Sutton Photography
• Natural family waterbirth

Hospital Births

• Charles Patrick’s Birth Story– Life and Lens Photography
• The Birth Story of Malachi – Life and Lens Photography
• Birth of Jemma – Natural Hospital Birth – Jerusha Sutton Photography
• The Beautiful Calm Birth of Baby J – Life and Lens Photography

Breastfeeding Support

• Global Health Media Videos – A fantastic video series providing information about various different aspects of birth, newborn life and breastfeeding. The breastfeeding videos are particularly useful for positioning and attachment and dealing with common complications.
• The Thompson Method – An alternative method for breastfeeding to those provided in the above videos. Dr Thompson developed this method after watching and researching anatomy of the infant mouth and mother’s breasts.