| A few years ago water births were seen as a bit of an oddity, but now they are the norm. |
| Records are obtained from the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages in each state and territory. |
| I switched from my nurse-midwives to an alternative doctor interested in promoting water births. |
| Also giraffe, waterbuck, and Thomson's gazelle showed births spread more evenly through the year. |
| Alice Moyle was present at the births of the new discipline of ethnomusicology and the new field of Australian Aboriginal music. |
| Cohabitation was still frowned upon, illegitimate births a stigma and the nuclear family the accepted way of doing things. |
