Content warning: divorce, fertility issues, high risk pregnancy, hectic birth & cancer. In this episode I chat to Sharlie Wise of Sharlie Designs, a communications manager turned pot painter. We talked about start up businesses, the difficulty

Babe 21 - Yiying Lee - By Yiying Lee

May 29th, 2021 56m 32s

After a long break, I am back to chatting births with all the Babes! In this episode, Yiying Lee, a potter with a psychology degree chats about confinement after birth, work life with a toddler & in-laws and how raising a toddler is a differen

Babe 20 - Penny Min Ferguson - Min Pin

Dec 12th, 2020 1h 5m

Just a note this is a bit of a TMI episode (probably more on my part!) Penny of Min Pin chat about dealing with panic attacks & anxiety during labour & birth, body image issues post birth and how it’s important to keep tabs on your mental healt

Babe 19 - Josh Thomas

Sep 28th, 2020 54m 17s

Josh talks about being a Kiwi tattoo artist during the COVID-19 pandemic, the naming of their babies, how the hospital they went to for the births uncomfortably pushed for natural births and how he was left in the birthing suite for 3 hours alo

Babe 18 - Julie Tran - Aacute

Aug 23rd, 2020 56m 29s

Babe 8teen is Julie of Aacute, who gave birth to her daughter Lyra at the start of the pandemic when things were super unorganized and confusing. We chat about how her partner Tom wasn’t able to be with Julie during Lyra’s birth, nor was he abl

Babes 17 - James Noble & Jess Smith

Aug 9th, 2020 1h 6m

In this episode we chat to the lovely couple James, drummer of Catholic Guilt and his beautiful partner Jess about being pregnant during the COVID-19 lockdown and how their dream birth was going so well according to the birth plan, but everythi

Babe 16 - Sarah Carollo - The Witch Apprentice

Jul 19th, 2020 1h 1m

Babe Sixteen is Sarah of The Witch Apprentice. We chat about toilet training (again!), toddler tantrums and how we deal (or don’t) with them. How different her two daughters are, right down to labour pains. How we’d say we wouldn’t change our b

Babe 15 - Jessica Scherini

Jun 28th, 2020 51m 45s

Hello! It's me, Waan, your host. It has been a while since the last episode and a thousand apologies but I got pretttty comfortable having Dan and Akira home all the time during iso. In this episode we're talking to Babe Fifteen Jess Scherini:

Babe 14.2 - Patience Hodgson - The Grates

Mar 29th, 2020 1h 10m

In the second part of Patience’s episode, she’ll tell us all about the home birth of her second daughter Fade, which is totally the opposite of Soda’s. Listen on to hear Patience tell us in full details of Fade’s free water birth at home but

Babe 14.1 - Patience Hodgson - The Grates

Mar 21st, 2020 48m 3s

Babe Fourteen is Patience Hodgson of the Aussie band The Grates. Patience's episode is split into two parts as we have over 2 hours of A+ content.In part one, we chat about her and her family’s mindful self isolation during the COVID-19 pande

Babe 13 - Erin Lightfoot - Erin Lightfoot Ceramics Design Studio

Mar 7th, 2020 1h 21m

Babe Thirteen is Erin Lightfoot of Erin Lightfoot Ceramics Design Studio. We had a chat about how our babies are destroying the ability for us to drink, Erin trying to explain the actual pains of labour and what it feels like, the surprise sens

Babe 12.2 - Rachel Burke - Tinsel Town

Feb 22nd, 2020 44m 32s

In part two of Babe Twelve, Rachel and I spoke about working mum life, doing something small for yourself every day and how you become more ruthless with your work now that you've got a baby. Oh, and to quote a lady from Real Housewives of Melb

Babe 12.1 - Rachel Burke - Tinsel Town

Feb 17th, 2020 50m 52s

This episode of Babe Number Twelve will be split into two parts: the birth and the bidniss.The first part is a bit echo-ey as we couldn’t figure out why the microphone wasn’t working, but it’s still good content you guys!Follow Rachel and tin

Babe 11 - Waan Pivasiri - Poddy host and You, Me & Bones

Feb 5th, 2020 40m 8s

*edited: I've re uploaded this episode as I used WAY too many "umms" (164!!!). Apologies to those who had to listen through that prior to the re upload!*We are saying hello to 2020 with Babe Eleven, who is I, your host and creator of You, Me &

Babe 10 - Lisa Peri - Lisa Peri Ceramics

Dec 30th, 2019 1h 15m

In this last episode of the decade (oh my goodness!) Lisa Peri talks about a total career change and what it felt like to have finally found her “thing”. We also talk about how we see our small businesses as a community and not competition, how

Babe 09 - Kathryn Contreras - Jak & Co Design

Dec 14th, 2019 1h 23m

Babe Nine is Kathryn, one half one Jak & Co Designs. Kathryn chats about how challenging and traumatic the pregnancy and birth of her first child was at a very young age of 18, how a misunderstanding lead her OB to offer a random student midwif

Babe 08 - Stacey Rutigliano - Flock Curiosity Assembly

Dec 1st, 2019 1h 12m

Today’s episode has been released a week early, reason being I’m just too bloody excited to get this one out since I’ll be talking to Stacey who is the other half to Flock Curiosity Assembly from last week. Hear us chat about the weird worst ca

Babe 07 - Sarah Byrne - Flock Curiosity Assembly

Nov 23rd, 2019 53m 27s

Sarah is a co-owner of Flock Curiosity Assembly and in this episode we chat about toilet training (a lot of poo talk, you guys!), how much we cry with our newborn, what we do to deal with tantrums as well as business talk: marketing tips and tr

Babe 06 - Issy Kerr - Seriously Milestones

Nov 10th, 2019 51m 5s

Babe number six Issy of Seriously Milestone; listen on to hear her talk about her three babes, a loss and peri natal depression as well chatting small business.This is the first time we've tried recording remotely! Pretty cool, huh.Follow Ser

Babe 05 - Kelly Murphy - Benna Co

Oct 27th, 2019 57m 51s

Apologies for the delayed release! Today’s babe is Kelly from Benna Co; listen on to hear her talk about the birth of her 3 boys, raising said three boys and vicious swooping magpies.Also apologies for the audio in this episode! I'm sure you c

Dadisode - Vaughn

Oct 12th, 2019 35m 20s

In our second Dadisode, I chat with my good mate Vaughn about the complications that arose during the pregnancy of his son, the birth and the hospital stay afterwards. We also touched on the topic of post natal mental health. You can check out

Babe 04 - Anna Blandford - Able & Game

Oct 5th, 2019 1h 10m

Is a binder full of birth plans enough to get you prepared for the big entrance? Let's hear what Anna from Able & Game has to say.Follow Able & Game on instagram and get yourself some cards and other funny stuff here: ableandgame / ableandgame

Dadisode - Dylan

Sep 28th, 2019 27m 38s

Say hi to our first Dadisode, where we chat to partners about the birth of their babes. Today's Dad is Dylan, and while he's not dadding, he manages the popular Fitzroy Nursery in Melbourne. You can follow Dylan aka Chubby Mcsuccs on instagram

Babe 03 - Kristy Tull - Fox & Ramona

Sep 21st, 2019 1h 3m

Listen on to hear Kristy from Fox & Ramona talks about the birth of her two daughters, breast cancer diagnosis and working with concrete. A little warning on this one as we do touch on the topic of miscarriage. Follow Fox & Ramona on instagram

A Quickie: Maternity Leave

Sep 15th, 2019 16m 21s

In this quickie episode Waan talks about the things you can do during the calm before the storm as well as after the storm, i.e., Maternity Leave.instagram: @birthingbabespodcast / website: birthingbabespodcast.com.au / email: heybabe@birthing