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Olivia Molly Rogers, in love again and pregnant: ‘I didn’t think that would ever be me’

After her divorce at 30, the 34-year-old content creator and podcast host struggled to see love in her future. Then, on a random night out, she met Hugo.

  • Melissa Singer

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One day, I may need to figure out how to get pregnant

Most Australian women don’t begin learning about fertility until they start “trying”. Why are we only encouraged to learn about fertility once it becomes urgent?

  • Chanel Contos

Women are used to bleeding. Here’s how to know when things aren’t normal

It’s common for women to delay seeking help for abnormal or heavy bleeding. However, experts say any unexpected bleeding should be investigated.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
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Worse than birth or postpartum: The anxiety of trying for a baby

A new survey suggests anxiety around trying to conceive is more common than fear of pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. So why isn’t it being discussed?

  • Shona Hendley
9News Perth presenter Tracy Vo and her partner Liam, with their daughter Mila. Tracy and Liam have a shrine to remember their son James, who they lost during pregnancy.

Why Say Their Name Day is a hug for the soul

Grief, as the saying goes, is just love with nowhere to go. It is the surplus of affection we had saved up for a lifetime that now has to be channelled into shrines, baubles, and stories.

  • Tracy Vo
Stacey Warnecke died in September after giving birth at home.

Banned doula ordered to break silence over influencer’s fatal free birth

Controversial free-birth advocate Emily Lal has been ordered to give evidence to an inquest into the death of Stacey Warnecke, who died hours after delivering her son at home.

  • Henrietta Cook
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Forced adoption was common in the 1970s.

Drugged and terrified, I heard small cries in the distance. The nurses had taken my baby away

Thousands of unmarried women and girls in Australia had their children forcibly taken from them and adopted out. One woman tells her story.

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There has been an anecdotal rise in the number of women choosing to freebirth.

‘These are avoidable’: Dozens of babies dead or permanently injured after freebirths

Data has uncovered the catastrophic consequences of a rise in women choosing to give birth without the aid of medically trained professionals.

  • Henrietta Cook
Forty-one per cent of Australian mothers now give birth by caesarean section.

After a traumatic birth, this rarely discussed caesarean option was healing

A maternal assisted caesarean is a modification to a traditional c-section and can be transformative. So, why aren’t more mothers offered it?

  • Sassica Francis-Bruce
Osborne Park Hospital expansion artist impression.

Osborne Park Hospital expansion: Work begins on new facility for northern suburbs mums

The milestone comes as the Cook government was forced to defend the WA hospital system’s readiness for the upcoming flu season

  • Hamish Hastie