Birth & Baby AU

Birth & Baby AU makes it easy for you to access trusted Australian resources on the birthing process and early newborn care that have been verified by doctors and midwives,

Our panel of practising experts have brought together verified birthing resources for mums to be with the Birth & Baby app.

Understanding your birthing preferences can be intimidating, with lots of resources out there that are of variable and sometimes anecdotal quality. Birth & Baby app takes you through the steps so you can make informed, evidence-based choices while understanding the need to remain flexible. Use our tool to simplifying the process of creating, customising, downloading and sharing your personalised list of birth preferences.


We have curated for you an easy-to-follow collection of resources from a wide range, including:

- Better Health Channel
- Pregnancy Birth & Baby
- Raising Children Network
- Centre for Perinatal Excellence
- The Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- The Royal Women's Hospital
- Cochrane Collaboration research summaries
- Latest important research papers
- Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia
- Australian Breastfeeding Association

... and much more!

Learn about:

- Your birthing options and what each type of birth involves
- Active birthing and pain relief options
- Water births
- Hypnobirthing
- Monitoring baby's well being
- Birthing the placenta
- Early skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding
- Delayed cord clamping
- Early newborn care
- Medical conditions including a gestational diabetes, high blood pressure & preterm birth
- Symptom checker
- Resources to help look after your emotional well being
- What things to consider when making a birth plan
- When things don't go to plan

Enter your birthing preferences as you learn. The tool enables you to:

- Tick off your preferences on the Birth Preferences template
- Enter free text into each section for customised preferences

... and you will immediately receive a PDF copy of your birth plan!

We encourage you to share and discuss your preferences with your healthcare professional well in advance of the birth. Birth preferences can be a work-in-progress for a while as you read, talk to family and friends, and attend antenatal classes. Feel free to edit as many times as you like and we will send you unlimited revisions of your plan!

Also included in the Birth & Baby app are:
- Note maker and voice recorder for appointments
- Checklists covering everything you and your partner need to remember to take for the birth
- Link to a contraction timer

The team at Birth & Baby AU are passionate about improving access to safe births for pregnant women everywhere. Please consider donating to any of the amazing organisations listed in the 'Help Support Safe Births' page. Please note, we have no personal or professional relationships with these organisations and no conflicts of interest. In addition, we have pledged 30% of profits from this app towards safe birthing and newborn care initiatives around the world.

We value your feedback and would love to hear from you. Please email us on birthplannerapp@gmail.com

This app is an educational resource on pregnancy, labour, childbirth, mothers' and women's health, newborns and birth plan creation.