Who we are
Our mission is to empower expecting parents from all backgrounds to have healthy and positive birth experiences.
We are founded under the belief that education and empowerment are key to promoting positive birth outcomes.
Why?
No single, easily accessible resource currently exists that brings together the most reputable information for preparing for your baby’s birth.
We know how overwhelming it is to pull together information from various sources, and not being sure what you can trust.
Private birthing courses cost several hundred dollars and public birthing courses are sadly oversubscribed.
So, we made an app!
Birth & Baby is an educational resource covering pregnancy, labour, childbirth, women's health, newborns and birth preferences.
All of the information is we provide is publicly available from trusted sources that are listed below. Birth & Baby does the hard work for you, finding the best resource for each topic, verifying the information and providing brief summaries and links.
Australian government funded resources:
Pregnancy, Birth and Baby: pregnancybirthbaby.org.au
Raising Children Network: raisingchildren.net.au
Health Direct: healthdirect.gov.au
Queensland Health: health.qld.gov.au
Healthy WA: healthywa.wa.gov.au
Australian Breastfeeding Association: breastfeeding.asn.au
PANDA: panda.org.au
MumSpace: mumspace.com.au
White Ribbon Australia: whiteribbon.org.au
Services Australia: servicesaustralia.gov.au
Diabetes Australia: diabetesaustralia.com.au
National Diabetes Service Scheme: ndss.com.au
Better Health Channel: betterhealth.vic.gov.au
Australian Action on Preeclampsia: aapec.org.au
Professional bodies:
The Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: ranzcog.edu.au
Australian College of Midwives: midwives.org.au
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists: anzca.edu.au
Hospital sources:
The Royal Women's Hospital: thewomens.org.au
King Edward Memorial Hospital: kemh.health.wa.gov.au
Western Sydney Local Health District: wslhd.health.nsw.gov.au
Mayo Clinic: mayoclinic.org
Tommy's charity: tommys.org
Original research and science reports:
Cochrane Collaboration: cochrane.org
The Lancet: thelancet.com
The British Medical Journal: bmjopen.bmj.com
Unicef: Unicef.org.uk
The National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov
Science Daily: sciencedaily.com
National Health System: nhs.uk
O&G Magazine: ogmagazine.org.au