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Dr Heather Mattner, psychologist and midwife, joins me to discuss birth trauma. Studies suggest one third of women experience birth trauma. In the current maternity system, she believes 100% of birthing women are experiencing birth trauma. We d
In this episode, Dr Rachel Reed and I, discuss the all too common "diagnosis" of Gestational Diabetes, and how this affects a woman's treatment pathway, often leading to induction, women being treated as a source of risk for their baby, and the
Midwife and researcher, Nigel Lee, joins me to talk about the Perineal Tear Bundle (bungle?!) that was rolled out in Australian hospitals a few years ago, in a feeble attempt to reduce the incidence of 3rd and 4th degree perineal tears. It cons
Jolene specialises in trauma as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker. She shares how trauma effects our body, and how previous trauma can impact birth. Various studies over the years have shown how women who've experienced trauma are more
Although Rachael and I have never spoken on the phone or via Zoom before, we worked closely together during the 2018-2020 Bush Baby Media Campaign. It was the largest maternity campaign the country has ever seen- at least 8 Front Page stories,
Jodie shares her journey to receiving care in a Birth Centre in Brisbane, her journey into advocacy and some of the amazing campaigns she helped create to improve access to the Birth Centre. We also discuss the obstetric lobbying, including the
Catherine Bell is the creator of the Birth Map, author of the book THE BIRTH MAP: Boldly Going Where No Birth Plan Has Gone Before takes you through the Informed Birth Preparation process leaving you Informed, Prepared and Confident. THE BIRT
Julie Bell is a well-known herbalist, doula and advocate in the birth world. Her early career as a nurse, time spent as an obstetric nurse, and her own mother being a midwife has given Julie an amazing insight into the maternity system. She sha
Liz Wilkes is Australia's first private midwife to have access to Medicare. Prior to this, she worked in private practice in Toowoomba, Queensland. She now has several private midwifery practices under the My Midwives brand. In this episode we
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr Kirsten Small's PhD research was on CTG (formerly described as EFM- electronic fetal monitoring). In this episode we discuss what her research found and despite CTG not having the outcomes intended when it was
Dr Hazel Keedle is a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) woman, midwife, researcher and is very passionate about research in the space of women's experience of birth. She helped design and publish the Birth Experience Study (BESt) in collaborat
Bruce spent 17 years lobbying for maternity improvements. He was involved in the National Maternity Action Plan- a plan involving partnership between consumers and midwives to lobby for change including more access to continuity of midwifery ca
Dr Robyn Thompson has a midwifery career of over 50 years. She foundered The Thompson Method breastfeeding support for women. In her extensive career, both in hospital and at home she discusses the institutionalisation and mechanicalisation of
Associate Professor Emily Callander speaks about the high cost of the maternity system, and how the activity based funding and segregation of funding continues to ignore what women need and addressing inequities in the maternity system. More i
This is part 2 of my birth stories. Ep. 16 covers my 1st and 2nd birth. The last 3 births were birth centre and homebirths. All with private midwives. Birth 3 and 4 were unassisted births due to precipitous labours.--- Support this podcast:
My own birth journeys set me on a new direction- advocacy and childbirth education. In this episode I retell my birth journeys for my first and second. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alecia-staines/support
Lizzie Carroll is one of Australia's most well-known VBAC mentors. She is a doula, childbirth educator, admin of the VBAC Support Group and personal VBAC mentor for women all over the country. http://www.lizziecarroll.com.au/musings--more https
Professor Nicky Leap is currently the Adjunct Professor of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Health UTS Visiting Professor, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College, London 2010-2012 International Francine G
Bashi Hazard is an Australian lawyer and the principal of B W Law, a legal practice established to support and assist women and children, and the Legal Director of the ANZ arm of the Human Rights in Childbirth (HRiC) International Lawyers Netwo
Carolyn is a mother, grandmother and midwife with qualifications in adult education, counselling, lactation, primary health care, reproductive and sexual health. She has been at the leading edge of midwifery practice and education for four deca
Mel Briggs is an Aboriginal midwife who works at an Aboriginal managed maternity and health service called Waminda. She discusses the importance and cultural and spiritual importance of Birthing on Country, how we must increase the aboriginal w
Susan is a Life Coach, who birthed in a Melbourne hospital. She takes us on a journey describing her birth- from lack of informed consent, induction, to a failed epidural that left her unable to speak, instrumental birth (after a cesarean was
Sue Kildea has been a midwife for over 30 years. Her research aims to support women in birth and redesign maternity services to strengthen support for vulnerable women (e.g. First Nations women, women in remote communities, women experiencing s
Dr Joan Garvan, PhD (ANU) - Joan’s research is in Sociology and Gender. In December 2010 she was awarded a doctorate from the Australian National University for her thesis titled: Maternal Ambivalence in contemporary Australia: navigating equit
Janet Fraser is a mother, poet, historian and has been National Convenor of the Australian homebirth network, Joyous Birth since 2004. She writes about feminism, history, human rights, birth and parenting and presents at conferences on these as
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