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About birthchoices | alice and elysia
birthchoices | alice and elysia (@birthchoices_) is a Parenting creator on Instagram. The account has 9,276 followers and 98 published posts. Recent posts average 61 likes and 6 comments, an engagement rate of 0.68%.
birthchoices | alice and elysia belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. birthchoices | alice and elysia follows 661 accounts, so the audience is roughly 14 times the size of the list followed. birthchoices | alice and elysia is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files birthchoices | alice and elysia under a single category, Parenting.
The Instagram bio for birthchoices | alice and elysia runs to 14 words across 3 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for birthchoices | alice and elysia dates from February 2024.
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98 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for birthchoices | alice and elysia, 5 are carousels, 3 are single images and 2 are videos. No single format accounts for most of them. 98 published posts give birthchoices | alice and elysia a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 95 followers for each post published. birthchoices | alice and elysia also keeps 4 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 200 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include pregnancy, care, birth, having and choices. The captions tag #birthchoices, #birthpodcast, #doulasupport, #birtheducation and #firstbaby.
We are slowly re-emerging, having survived a hectic final year of our studies, a beautiful but busy holiday period involving lots of shared holiday time with our families, ready to enter 2026 as two registered midwives
Cheers to that 🍸
#idm2025 #internationaldayofthemidwife
📷 exquisite artwork by - the supportive hands making us think of the many midwives we reflected on today.
You can read our article and the many other excellent pieces in this issue and previous ones via
A big thank you to the incredible midwives we have learnt from along way - the scenes painted are straight from those births - midwives from the Joan Kirner and RWH homebirth programs,, and
Our university, both through the approach to teaching, and through arranging clinical placements, has been supportive of us and many others having these formative experiences and for this we are grateful. Not all midwifery students in Australia are so lucky. We hope that with the expansion of homebirth via more publicly funded programs, and what we hope are positive changes to insurance for homebirth, this changes. The ripple effects of this exposure may be felt through all areas of practice, if we gave people the chance to learn in this way.
‘If we are to stay true to the midwifery philosophy of supporting women to view pregnancy and childbearing as normal physiological processes, then we need exposure to it - to see it, to believe in it, and to be able to promote it, both inside and outside the home. While homebirth may not be for every woman, or every midwife, we all have much to learn from the holistic approach of homebirth midwives to clinical care across the continuum, as well as from the behaviours of a woman birthing her baby physiologically, in her own environment, with her chosen supports.’ (Godfree & Hansen, 2025, p. 31).
Choosing what affirmations, visuals and language speaks to you and where you are at is important too - not just what Google or Instagram will list for you.
Ideally they are written by you for you, and for your story. I know a big focus for me and my second birth, in light of the physical and emotional effects (and therefore prep required) following my first, was on releasing pelvic tension and letting my body and breath do the work. my affirmations reflected this — ”breathe my baby down”, “I relax, I release, I open”, “loose lips”, and the like. But I hardly noticed them in labour, as by that stage the kind of physical and emotional letting go I wanted to promote had become instinctive.
I enjoyed having them up on the wall in those final weeks, allowing me to visualise that dream birth, and was very reluctant to take them down, holding on emotionally to all parts of the birth I was so proud of ✨
Alice
We’re back from holidays, including a week camping up in NSW with the two birthchoices families and our six kids. It was a rare opportunity to be together in person (not just speaking all day via voice memos) for 7 nights. Elysia cemented her status as the ultimate ‘snack bitch’, and between endless requests for said snacks and generalised chaos (see second photo), we managed some adult conversations and exciting planning for the year ahead.
It’s going to be a huge one for us personally, and we hope for birthchoices. We’re excited to:
✨ Get back into the swing of the podcast, bringing you some more birth stories and highlighting some key choices available to you in pregnancy, birth (and more postpartum than we’ve touched on yet)
✨ Finish our midwifery degrees and (hopefully!) be registered by the end of the year (surreal.)
✨ Launch some exciting new aspects of birthchoices, including bringing you together for some community events, and work on education resources.
Thank you for being part of this ride, as we continue to try and achieve our lofty goals while managing hectic uni and placement requirements, busy families, and other work.
We are seeing the impact that these conversations about choice are having for families and we’re more motivated than ever to keep it all coming. We’d love to hear what you’d like to hear more about this year!
#birthchoices #informedchoices
They are plotted like this to give you an idea of what may be coming up, not because it is the road you necessarily need to travel. Every one of these is a choice for you, ideally to make in an informed way, with full support from your chosen care provider to assess the benefits/risks/alternatives before deciding if it’s a full body yes for you. Some of these are more “standard” than others (a growth scan for example, should never be “standard”, but is something that frequently arises, and more commonly in pregnancies with certain “risk” profiles/certain models of care).
It can be easier to follow the standard path, and certainly you may face resistance in deviating from it, but that shouldn’t be what dictates your decisions. I know for me (Alice), even choosing not to do a dating scan (and also delaying the NIPS I had elected to do) until my 13 week scan, felt like hard work (much confusion on the part of medical receptionists when the system expected me to have ticked certain, very much optional!), boxes. For me, having had a previous loss after a dating scan, I knew it wouldn’t be helpful for me, and wouldn’t change the course of my care. Make decisions based on what is right for YOU, and find a care provider (and/or alternative supports) who backs you in that.
These gestation markers are a guide only. A number of these tools are offered at various/variable points in pregnancy.
This list isn’t exhaustive (there are other tests and screening tools offered particularly in early pregnancy), and some choices around interventions in late pregnancy geared towards induction, that we will address separately. As always, discuss the timing and appropriateness for you with your pregnancy care provider.
Source: Department of Health (2018) Clinical Practice Guidelines: Pregnancy Care. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health. | Queensland Health (2023) Clinical Guidelines. Perineal care. Guideline No. MN23.30-V5-R28
#birthchoices #pregnancychoices #birtheducation #pregnancyscreening #gdm
- Resources and birth education — we want you to have everything under the one roof
- Doula support — support as you traverse the period from conception through to postpartum, from one off mini and maxi birthchoices consults to full spectrum doula support
- Podcast — sharing stories of your birth choices, and insights from professionals
- Community connection — workshops and circles for pregnancy and beyond
#birtheducation #evidencebasedbirth #doulasupport #birthpodcast #pregnancycircles
birthchoices | alice and elysia's engagement
birthchoices | alice and elysia's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.68%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 147 followers. An average post collects 61 likes and 6 comments, close to 10 likes for each comment.
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birthchoices | alice and elysia (@birthchoices_) is a Parenting creator on Instagram. birthchoices | alice and elysia is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for birthchoices | alice and elysia runs to 14 words across 3 lines.
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birthchoices | alice and elysia has 9,276 followers on Instagram (9.3K). birthchoices | alice and elysia follows 661 accounts, so the audience is roughly 14 times the size of the list followed. 98 published posts give birthchoices | alice and elysia a moderate archive on Instagram.
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birthchoices | alice and elysia's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.68%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 147 followers. An average post collects 61 likes and 6 comments, close to 10 likes for each comment.
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