Plus Size Pregnancy - an interview with Dr Sara Wickham

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   10 Jan 2024 · 1 hr 1 min

   Breastfeeding and medication with Wendy Jones BSc, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS

   Wendy Jones BSc, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS is known for her work on providing a service on the compatibility of drugs in breastmilk and has been a registered breastfeeding supporter for 36 years. She is passionate that breastfeeding should be valued by all and that medication should not be a barrier. In her employed life she was a primary care pharmacist. Wendy left paid work 12 years ago to concentrate on writing her books and developing her website to provide information for mothers and profession...

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   S5 · E5 · 13 Dec 2023 · 1 hr 9 min

   Taking up space and the power of anger with Bonnie Hughes

   Bonnie Hughes is a midwife, with a background in musical theater and journalism. She is the creator of the podcast series Making a Midwife, and an animation film-maker hobbyist. Bonnie is passionate about the power of story, and how the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we live, the stories we are part of, and the characters we play in those stories shape the future. Bonnie explores, both through her midwifery work and her art how she can create a positive and uplifting impact for ...

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   S5 · E4 · 16 Nov 2023 · 59 min

   Freebirth stories - with Professor Emerita Mavis Kirkham

   Mavis Kirkham is Midwifery Professor Emerita at Sheffield Hallam University and has held honorary professorial positions at the University of Technology Sydney and Auckland University of Technology. After over forty years as a clinical midwife and researcher, she is interested in reflecting and writing on birth and midwifery in its wider context. A major theme of her research has been the way in which the context of their care impacts upon childbearing women and how their working experiences ...

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   S5 · E3 · 26 Oct 2023 · 56 min

   Labour pauses - Failure to progress or just normal? - An interview with Dr Marina Weckend

   Dr Marina Weckend is a midwife and post-doctoral researcher based at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Building on 13 years’ experience in midwifery practice, education and research in Germany, UK and Australia, Marina is committed to improving maternity care services through better understandings of birth physiology. Her current program of research focuses on natural fluctuations and pauses during labour and birth, and seeks to normalise physiological plateaus as a strategy to red...

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   S5 · E2 · 4 Oct 2023 · 57 min

   Late preterm and early term infants - why these babies struggle so much with breastfeeding

   In this episode Katie talks with Rachel about late preterm and early term infants. These are the babies who have flown under the radar for far too long and often are the babies who struggle the most to get going with breastfeeding. Come with us as we take a look at the current research, plans for feeding and what mothers are saying who have had babies born just that bit too early. · How many babies are born late preterm and why the numbers are growing. · ...

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   S4 · E15 · 31 Jul 2023 · 59 min

   Early labour

   In this episode Rachel takes us into the world of ‘early labour’. She’s been promising it for a long while, and here it is. Get your lug’ols around this one! In this episode we discuss: · What’s going on physiologically during this phase of childbirth · Beta endorphins and how they work for us during labour · The neocortex and what is so important about this part of our brain as we birth · Why women in early...

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   S4 · E14 · 14 Jul 2023 · 45 min

   Our special edition: "We hit one million downloads" episode!

   Welcome to the biggest episode yet! Well not really, but we have met a milestone I couldn’t have fathomed 3 years ago on 20th July 2020. It has hit home what has happened over this time and how this 'little' podcast has grown into something really fantastic. And this is due to my dear friend Dr Rachel Reed, our amazing guests who have so kindly donated their time to come on, and to all of you who listen in each episode and make the effort to share it, talk about it, grab a bit of merch ...

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   S4 · E13 · 26 Jun 2023 · 1 hr 3 min

   Breastfeeding aversion, agitation and dysphoric milk ejection reflex - An interview with Zainab Yate

   In this episode Katie talks to Zainab Yate. Zainab is a Biomedical Ethicist, with a specialist interest in infant feeding. Zainab is Vice Chair and named qualitative lead on a paediatric flagged Research Ethics Committee Panel for the Health Research Authority (HRA) in the UK. She's also been a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter with the NHS for a number of years, is the owner-author of the resource site for mothers and healthcare practitioners on Breastfeeding / Nursing Aversion an...

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   S4 · E12 · 6 Jun 2023 · 49 min

   The unbelievable tactics of the formula industry- Do not think you can skip this episode!

   In this episode I take Rachel and you into the world of underhand marketing tactics going on right under our noses from the commercial milk formula (CMF) industry. In Feburary 2023 the Lancet and WHO released a new 3 part series discussing the marketing of CMF. Rachel really did wonder if this would be of any interest to our listeners and I promised her that within a few minutes her knickers would be in a twist ... and they were! This is not a discussion about whether formula mi...

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    S4 · E11 · 17 May 2023 · 1 hr 31 min

    Childbirth education, home birth, attachement styles and the "F%k1ng epidural" - An interview with Rhea Dempsey

    Rhea is a former PE teacher turned childbirth educator, and counsellor and feels privileged to have attended more than a thousand births in hospitals and home settings as a birth attendant as well as connecting with many more women, their partners and support people during birth preparation workshops and personal birth counselling sessions. Rhea has spoken extensively around Australia and internationally and is the author of two books – ‘Birth with Confidence: savvy choices for normal...