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How can we give our babies and families the best possible start to life?

Can a gentle start enhance ease, pleasure and safety for mother and baby?

Which gentle birth and parenting choices will lay a strong foundation for health and happiness for all the family?

Sarah J Buckley MD, family physician/GP, writer and mother of four combines the best medical evidence on pregnancy, birth and parenting with her gentle mothering wisdom. On this site you will find information and stories that will inform, inspire, nourish and support you in your vital role as parents and parents-to-be.

You will read Sarah's expert research on topics such as ultrasound, drugs in labour, cord clamping, and the ecstasy and inbuilt safety of natural birth, as published in Mothering (US), MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (UK), Midwifery Today (US) and Byron Child (Australia). You can also share some of Sarah's own experiences, including four natural births, and fifteen years of breastfeeding and gentle mothering.

Click here for an up-to-date schedule of Sarah's talks and media appearances in Australia and internationally.

Gentle Birth: Wisdom and Science. Click here for Sarah’s on-line lectures with CEUs for professionals.

Order an abundance of Sarah's authoritative information and mothering wisdom, delivered straight to your door, with her new book, 'Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The wisdom and science of gentle choices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting' See reviews

We all deserve the best possible start.

"Hoorah for Sarah Buckley! Her strong, authoritative voice is sorely needed..."

Ina May Gaskin Midwife and author, US

"Sarah Buckley creatively integrates mind/body wisdom with the latest scientific research to provide women with the essential tools they need to make conscious choices throughout their pregnancy and birth. "

Deepak Chopra Author 'Peace is the Way'

"I will forever be grateful for such words of wisdom, it has empowered, inspired and allowed me to experience a gentle pregnancy, birth and now parenting my son Matthew with rewards that amaze me each day."

Arletta Nikitiuk Osteopath, Melbourne Australia

"Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction."

Michel Odent MD Author, natural birth pioneer