Common variations to spontaneous labour and birth

Introduction
So you’re going to have a baby!
Prior to labour
All about labour
Natural strategies to work with labour
Informed decision-making and medical pain management
Common variations to spontaneous labour and birth
After your baby is born
Caring for your baby
Learning to breastfeed

Sometimes intervention is required to support labour and birth. Learn about these different interventions, from the induction of labour through to caesarean births.

Additional information and resources

Assisted birth
Caesarean birth

Downloads and Related Topics

Birth and babies for first time parents
This booklet is designed to accompany the video presentation available in the Women's Online Childbirth Education Program. It expands on the information in the videos and includes links to additional resources.
- (English) PDF (1MB)
Induction of labour
This information is to help you and your family make a choice about induction of labour and to answer some of the questions you may have.
- (English) PDF (512 KB)
- (Amharic) PDF (601 KB)
- (Arabic) PDF (437 KB)
- (Chinese) PDF (572 KB)
- (Farsi) PDF (437 KB)
- (Hindi) PDF (466 KB)
- (Oromo) PDF (436 KB)
- (Somali) PDF (428 KB)
- (Urdu) PDF (495 KB)
- (Vietnamese) PDF (416 KB)