Parenting Information, Education, Support Behind the Mask: The Hidden Struggle of Parenthood - Presented by PANDA - This film presents real life stories of new parents who've experienced and overcome perinatal depression and anxiety. It talks honestly about their stories and features insights from experts and health professionals. It provides an opportunity to look behind the mask of secrecy that often conceals the true feelings of those effected by this debilitating condition. Natural Parenting Melbourne - Parenting Naturally - Respecting our children and our Earth Pinky McKay - International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, Pinky McKay is a Melbourne based writer and editor specialising in health, education and family issues. She also works ‘hands on’ with parents, teaching infant massage and solving breastfeeding problems, with many clients being referred to her by health professionals such as GPs and MCH nurses. Mothering - The magazine of natural family living. Many articles and information including support for dads. Home Education Network - The Victorian Hospital Profiles of Perinatal Data for 2004 have been published by the Perinatal Data Collection Unit Each hospital receives a summary of its own births for that year, compared with average outcomes for hospitals of various sizes, and state averages. Homebirths are collected into one report. This year’s report gives trends in selected variables, 1999-2004. Variables include statewide, private and public rates of spontaneous onset of labour without augmentation, induced labour, epidural &c for primipars, and multipara in labour, spontaneous vaginal births, operative births, and caesareans. The rate of caesareans in that time has gone from 22.8% to 29.4%. The number of women having homebirths has risen from 132 in 1999 to 181 in 2004, out of 62,348 women giving birth. There were 254 unplanned out of hospital births, and 1,229 births in Birth Centres.