Having a great birth in Australia is getting harder and less within reach of the average woman. Normal physiological birth in Australia is at risk of extinction. Our bodies are still perfectly designed for birthing our babies, we are still a very healthy population of women - so what is going on here? Why the alarmingly high rate of birth interventions and the dangerously high (and climbing) cesearean section rate?

Birth options
Or lack of awareness of them
Or lack of them

We need to know more about what birth options are available to us, and what the implications of those birth options are for us and our ability to birth our babies. We also need more birth options - many more than are currently funded by our federal and state health budgets. We need access to birth options that support our inate ability to birth and our basic human right of being able to choose how we give birth, with whom we give birth and where we give birth.

There are growing numbers of women and men who are stepping up to the challange and doing their bit in any and every way they know how to make sure that there will continue to be options about how, where and with whom Australian women birth their babies.

There are many different ways to be involved, and we would love to have you join us on the journey. If you have purposely found this page, then we are fairly confident that you have skills, energy and enthusiasm which we would love to have on board.

An updated list of volunteer opportunities will be posted to this page soon, in the meantime -

Do you have passion, energy, time and skills to share?

Contact us at info@birthoptions.org.au and let us know where you live and what you would like to see happen in your local area, and in what way you would like to be involved in Birth Options Association Australia.

We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you on board!

The Birth Options Association Australia team