Resource Directory: Pregnancy and Birth

Australia’s number 1 supplier of Belly Mask Kits and Professional Masking Service. We also hand make personalized bracelets for mothers and babies with gold, sterling silver and beautiful beads.

Birthready aims to enable women to enhance their experience of pregnancy, achieve a more satisfying birth and move smoothly into motherhood.  The service is based in the Eastern Suburbs and includes weekly Stretch & Relax classes, Childbirth & Early Parenting Preparation Courses and Professional Labour Support.

Womb a Bloom specialises in natural maternal and child health.  Current services include infant massage teachings, labour and post natal doula support.

Private antenatal, childbirth and postnatal education & support from mobile Midwives, Lactation Consultants & Doula's for women around the Melbourne area. We offer private antenatal educational classes during your pregnancy and postnatal support after the birth of your baby, which includes breastfeeding support and early parenting techniques ALL IN YOUR OWN HOME (up to 6 weeks).

Maternity Coalition is Australia's National Maternity Consumer Organisation. We believe that birth matters in Australia today.

How, where and with whom you give birth is important to you and to us. We work to bring information and real choice in maternity services to all Australian women and their families.

We provide advocacy on behalf of birthing women, with health service providers, state and national governent. Our advocacy services include personal representation to ensure you receive the best of maternity services that you are entitled to.

Offering workshops and videos on how to use the balls in pregnancy / labour and their benefits.

For more information or bookings phone Rhea on 9513 9164. All workshops are held at the Birthing Wisdom Centre, 61 Station Street, Fairfield.

Pre-Birth Sessions
Wednesdays 1pm-3pm or 6:30–8:30pm
$75 for 5 sessions or $18 casual

Birth Support Bendigo Inc. is a network of people who believe that birth can be a positive, powerful and joyous event in the life of a woman and her family. We are an active consumer voice on birthing issues in Central Victoria and have ongoing input into change at a local level. Birth Support Bendigo remains committed to homebirth being a medically supported option for women who choose it and we are affiliated with a range of other childbirth and parenting groups. We offer support during pregnancy, birth and beyond, as an information resource for parents and parents-to-be and by sharing our thoughts, feelings and experiences on the journey of parenthood.

Online discussion group supporting families recovering from Birth Related Trauma. All welcome.

We are about mother-to-mother support for women who have experienced caesarean birth. In addition, we aim to provide support, hints and perhaps most importantly encouragement for those who are keen to birth vaginally next time around.

For more information contact:
Sarah   9557 2789
Rachel 9459 7374

Jan also runs VBAC information evenings

Provides Birth Trauma Counselling.

Birthready aims to enable women to enhance their experience of pregnancy, achieve a more satisfying birth and move smoothly into motherhood.  The service is based in the Eastern Suburbs and includes weekly Stretch & Relax classes, Childbirth & Early Parenting Preparation Courses and Professional Labour Support.

I have been working with pregnant, birthing and postnatal women, their partners and families for over 20 years. I offer positive preparation for birth. My services include Active Birth weekend workshops, private consultations, guided pre & post natal relaxation CD's. My website is full of inspiring stories, articles and great links.

An initiative of The Maternity Coalition, Choices for Childbirth is an independent information group supporting women and their partners to make informed choices about the birth of their babies. Several information sessions are held each month in both Balwyn and Brunswick venues. Topics include Normal Birth: Is it Possible? , Homebirth, Labour Pain, Breastfeeding, Sleeping Soundly, Vaginal Birth After Caesarean and Supporting Your Partner in Labour.

Bookings are essential.For more information call 0434 968 808 or email choices@maternitycoalition.org.au

Homebirth Access Sydney was established in 1973 to provide information and support to those interested in homebirth. Members include parents, birth attendants, educators and midwives. HAS recognises that Australian families have the right to have their baby in any setting - be it their home, a clinic, a birth centre or a hospital. Membership with HAS has many wonderful benefits including a beautiful and informative quarterly magazine.

HBA provides support to Australia’s Homebirth parents, advocates the rights of parents to safe and affordable homebirths.  Holds an annual conference.

A support group for Homebirth families living in the Dandenong Ranges and surrounds. All are welcome to join us as we share a cuppa, our stories and celebrate this very special way of birthing our babies into the world. We meet monthly in family homes.

A group providing support and information to families who have had or are planning to have a homebirth in the Mornington  Peninsula area. We meet monthly in family homes. For more information please contact:

Have you birthed at home? Are you considering a homebirth?
We are a community of homebirthers, midwives, birth attendants and doulas, past, present and future across Melbourne and beyond. Come along to socialise, feel supported and strengthened, share knowledge and experience and enjoy the company of others who believe in gentle birth. Although we are not focussed on parenting, we promote and encourage gentle, evidence-based parenting, which complements our birthing practices. For more information please contact:

Birth preparation classes for an easier, more comfortable and natural birthing experience, through guided imagery, visualisation, relaxation and special breathing techniques. HypnoBirthing, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Women's Groups.

Beautiful underwear for Pregnant & Breastfeeding Mothers

Midwives Naturally is a midwifery group practice offering continuity of care whether you choose to birth at home or in hospital. We are a team of four midwives who are passionate about midwifery and strive to empower women and their families during their birth experience. We have over 70 years of combined midwifery experience and continue to update our skills by attending workshops and seminars. We provide ante-natal care, birth attendance, post-natal care, ante-natal classes and sibling preparation classes. We have a special interest in vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) and water birth. We have birthing pools for hire and have an extensive library of books and videos.

Midwife in Private Practice providing antenatal care, homebirth services and postnatal care. Has a birth pool for hire.

Supports active, vaginal breech birth

Supports both home and hospital birth. Peter is very supportive of midwifery led care. Supports Vaginal Breech birth.

Supports active birth, VBAC, vaginal breech birth.

The Bonnie Babes Foundation supports families who have experienced pregnancy loss. It provides medical research, training of grief counsellors, a 24 hour national counselling line in Australia and USA, downloadable booklets and more.

Sands is the mutual support, information, education and advocacy for parents and families who experience the death of their baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death and other reproductive losses

Mobile Melbourne Based Business - will visit home or hospital

Support & information regarding unhindered pregnancy and birth, with an Australian focus in mind. Purebirth Australia also has a community forum for discussing aspects of UP & UC with others. This website supports unassisted childbirth as a valid birthing option/choice for women - it is but one of many other birth choices!