Today, there are many books on childbirth and birthing methods. Also, women are being encouraged to share their birth experiences as well as their birth injuries. It has not always been like this, and although my accounts took place between 1975 and 1987, they may still be of some interest, and I wanted to share what I learned. There are women who will sail through birth and breastfeeding without problems, but I was not one of them. You might say that I learned the hard way by realising my ignorance and discovered I needed to be educated in childbirth and breastfeeding. These are my accounts of my journeys from ignorance to knowledge in giving birth to five children, what happened to me and what I learned.