Welcome to the home of Stork Stories!
This website captures and shares your many and varied stories of little baby arrivals and how they have transformed your lives.
If you are inspired by the stories shared, we warmly welcome you to share your own story here and we will post it to this site as soon as we come out of the delivery room.
Many thanks to those who have already shared your stories, take care and keep in touch!
We had such a wonderful experience. Paul Bretz is an absolute legend! My C-section was a lot less painful than my first experience. A lot less swelling and (less) traumatic. My recovery was so much quicker. Paul made us feel so calm and relaxed. We felt in such gre...
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"He'll fly straight out of there" were the words ringing in my head to compose myself for the delivery of my second son, Hamish. I had been at the hospital for 1.5 hours and was ready to have this baby. Desparate for pain relief, the first words spoken as I walked into the birthing suite...
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Wonderful pregnancy in care of Dr Loh who swapped the actual delivery for Dolmades in Greece, leaving Dr Higgins to perform the scheduled c-section, which he did with great flair. Arrivals was the most fantastic experience from Dawn and the reception ladies to both Dr Loh & Dr Higgins. Pro...
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Some years ago when I was a training registrar I received a patient in the wee hours one morning, transferred from an outlying hospital. This was an usual case for up until a few hours prior the mother to be had not realised she was pregnant - she was still breast feeding her 11 month infant and tho...
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My wife Sarah and I have recently had our 3rd child. Family arrived from interstate a week early to help look after our two boys in anticipation of Sarah’s labour. We thought we would get more time, but as luck would have it, once the family arrived, Sarah went into labour the next day. We at least ...
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Our second child Emily was born in Chester England whilst I was undertaking overseas training toward my obstetric specialty qualification. As our first child Henry took all day to come I had my wife out walking the neighbourhood streets despite the near freezing temperatures of a northern England No...
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It's a funny thing you see in this business. When I was an obstetric registrar in England I got a call out to an emergency. It was called the obstetric flying squad. An ambulance would take a team out from the hospital to the emergency. On this occasion we arrived to find a footing breech (fee...
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I remember with our first baby, our first scan, the excitement of seeing a new little life. Of course at 7 weeks they’re tiny. Baby was nicknamed “the bean”, because that’s exactly what baby looked like on the scan, a bean with a heartbeat. Hugo’s a lot bigger than a bean now. He’s...
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Working on New Year’s Day in labour ward, I received a phone call from a couple who were on their way back from the Gold Coast. Labour had commenced earlier that morning and had escalated more quickly than anticipated. After taking relevant information the expectant woman screamed that she wanted to...
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High flying professional type, father of newborn twins, overheard on the telephone from wife’s postnatal room. “Not sure when we’ll be home mate. I’m pretty sure they’ll keep her in until the babies are sleeping though”.
As a midwife, I was having trouble consoling the new mum who had just given ...
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I was doing night shift at a Brisbane Hospital as a Registrar. Things were quiet until a woman turned up in preterm labour. She is from North Queensland and her pregnancy had been normal, including the ultrasound scan. She was 32 weeks. It had been noted that her baby felt big during her...
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I am a very organised person and with the anticipated arrival of my first son Marcus, I had everything planned. I started yoga for an active birth and was adament that I would labour spontaneously, quickly and without pain relief. I had a birth plan which my husband kindly laminated (ha ha) an...
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I had my own encounter with the stork for the first time this year, with the birth of baby Reuben in May. People have asked what it was like to be on the other side of the experience, and whether it will change my practice as an obstetrician. I think one of the major obstacles when facing a new life...
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