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Really important stuff is announced in here so make sure you read it!

Introduce yourself here and meet others on the journey. You must introduce yourself here in order to post in the rest of the forums. So join in and help maintain the community!

Let’s share more than birth. Come for a chat about anything you like. Announcements, suggestions and comments welcome!

Sub-Forums: Media Alert

Activism and the philosophies which inform our lives.

Sub-Forums: Philosophical Insight, The Online Feminist Workshop, Vagivism, Activist Paradise

Choosing homebirth, your options, questions and decisions.

Sub-Forums: Home Help, Holding the space

Community can be a great support IRL ("in real life"). Locate your nearest JBers, JB (or other likeminded) group, or get ideas on starting your own JB group.

Sub-Forums: Victoria, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Aotearoa, Outside Australia & New Zealand

TTC & achieving a pregnancy

Sub-Forums: Preconception Care

For everything related to homebirth and pregnancy!

Sub-Forums: Motherbaby, Essentials, Postnatal Depression (public), Birth trauma space, Grief and Loss

Reclaim your birth right from fear and misinformation. Trust your body, trust your baby. The power is yours!

Inspiration and affirmations for joyous, empowered birthing.

Sub-Forums: Online Blessingways

Tell us your birth stories. All births are lifechanging and all mothers deserve to be honoured. Let us learn from your journey.

Birth is only the beginning so come here to discuss parenting. This part of the forum is named in honour of Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth and home. Let her warm you and nurture you.

Sub-Forums: Snooze Support, Gentle Guidance, Babywearing, Education, Breastfeeding is normal!

If we give birth at home, that makes our homes very special spaces. Come here to share hints and tips on household management, greener living, recipes and all the other things which make our home lives more pleasurable!

Sub-Forums: The Library, Cookbook, Cloth Nappies and Elimination Communication, Joyous Birth Shop, Business network, Joyous Bazaar

A place to learn about and discuss how to keep our bodies joyfully functioning and healthy. Body image to yoga to exercise, come chat about it here.

Sub-Forums: PCOS Support, Inner Woman

Let's strive for more than absence of illness, let's aim for the presence of wellness. A room where herbs are drying, decoctions are bubbling and we can heal ourselves and our children gently and naturally.

Sub-Forums: Natural Therapies, Vaccination Research Space

Come here to celebrate your cycles. Learn how to honour the cyclical changes from each bleed to the next. Be supported by a loving circle of bleeding and ovulating women.