52 weeks: Your Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy & Beyond: Recent Episodes
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52 Weeks; Your Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond.
Pregnancy Birth & Beyond Media bring you a week-by-week childbirth education podcast, falling over an entire year. PBBM takes you through the thresholds of pre-conception, pregnancy, birth and 6 weeks postpartum. This is not you're ordinary week by week download of information, we bring you a modern, savvy, informative guide with a twist of traditional wisdom.
Hosted by Lara Martin
PBBM acknowledges the Community Broadcasting Foundation for their support in this project.
PBBM thanks each guests for their contribution in making this project possible.
Week 1: Beginning the journey to parenting starts with conception. Conception is about having fun. Here Kimberley Lipschus, Psychotherapist, story teller and film maker shares with you connecting as a couple preparing and conceiving for pregnancy. Connect with Kimberley at kimberleylipschus.com
Produced by Lara Martin
Week 2: This episode psychotherapist, film maker and story teller talks, Kimberley Lipschus shares practical ways you and your partner can prepare for parenting so that you are on the same page, even before pregnancy. Connect with Kimberley at kimberleylipschus.com
Produced by Lara Martin
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Week 3: This episode Sean Tonnet, relationship therapist talks on relationships. Expect changes and build support; communicate and share thoughts before the birth about your relationship now there is three (or more!). Connect with Sean at seantonnet.com.au
Produced by Lara Martin
Week 6: Part 1 of 4 episodes on informed decision making in maternity care; What is the safest form of maternity care? What are my rights in birth? By Sally Cusack. While there are no guarantees in life, including birth, these qualities are crucial for the safest and highest quality care. Respect, relationships, skill and proximity.
In this episode we will look at the quality of Respect for your rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision making. pbbmedia.org
Week 7: Part 2 of 4 episodes on informed decision making in maternity care; Am I allowed, with Sally Cusack. When you are pregnant your unborn baby has no separate legal rights to you. You hold the responsibility for making the decisions for the two of you. In order to make the many decisions you will come up against in pregnancy, you also have the right to receive evidence based information from your carer. Your carer then is obliged to carry out your requests, or take reasonable steps to find a carer who will. pbbmedia.org
Week 8: Part 3 of 4 episode on informed decision making in maternity care: How Knowing your Carer Leads to Optimal Birthing with Sally Cusack. In all areas of health, the best outcomes are achieved when you have continuous care with the same clinician who follows you through your health journey. This way they can build up a detailed profile of you and your wishes, and in turn you get to know them, and gain trust in their judgment. In this sort of relationship you feel comfortable asking questions, as many questions as you need to, and over time you can gather all the information you need to make your decisions. pbbmedia.org
Week 9: Part 4 or 4 episodes on informed decision making in maternity care; Choosing your maternity carer, with Sally Cusack co-founder of PBBmedia, maternity advocate and mother talks on your rights in childbirth.
There are a range of maternity care options available in Australia including private obstetric care, GP care that is shared with the local hospital, care provided by a team of midwives under the supervision of hospital obstetricians, and private or public midwifery led continuity of care. With all those choices, which is the safest one to choose? pbbmedia.org
Week 10: Are you wondering what model of care you want for your pregnancy, heard of case load or continuity midwifery? Ti Harrison, midwife of 30 years shares with you what it is like as a midwife to work in a continuity case load model of care.
Week 11: Kimberley takes a closer look at relationships. Tuning in and tuning up before baby comes along.
Week 12: This episode psychotherapist, film maker and story teller talks, Kimberley Lipschus shares practical ways you and your partner can prepare for parenting so that you are on the same page, even before pregnancy. Connect with Kimberley at kimberleylipschus.com
Week 13: Have you heard of the therm imprinting? Dr Holly Goldberg explains how imprinting on the newborn is formed.What is interesting about this episode is that, even if early trauma is unavoidable, healing and repair is always possible. Connect with Dr Goldberg at floweressenceapothecary.com
Week 16: We all the importance of keeping maintaining fitness during pregnancy. Prenatal yoga is one way millions of pregnant women around the globe stay healthy, fit and flexible in preparation for having a baby. Here we hear from Emma Grant of Red Tent Yoga on prenatal yoga. Redtentyoga.com
Week 17: Maha Al Musa founder of Embodied birth and belly dance for birth since 1997, share with you the importance of prenatal movement as preparation for autonomous birth. Maha says The living book is within, read her. Connect with Maha at mahaalmusa.com
Week 18: Paul on becoming a father. Paul shares his role and experience as a man/ partner during the antenatal period. Paul say, he came out of it with a huge appreciation for the human experience. Paul also shares how is was able to support his partner during pregnancy.
Week 19: This episode relationship therapist Sean Tonnet talks on becoming your best self as a dad. Connect with Sean at seantonnet.com.au
Week 20: This episode relationship therapist Sean Tonnet talks on dads and partners supporting their partner during pregnancy and beyond. Connect with Sean at seantonnet.com.au
Produced by Lara Martin
Week 21: Paul, on becoming a father. Here Paul shares with you how he was able to support his partner through labour and birth to becoming a dad.
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Week 22: Annie Byrant, storyteller and mother shares her story of maiden to mother. Connect with Annie at talesandsongs.com
Week 23: Anna Watts founder of Celebration of Birth Doula Academy, talks on doula's and their role, what you can expect from a doula. Connect with Anna celebrationofbirth.com
Week 24: Is there a magic formula to a great birth? The answer is unfortunately no, yet there are a number of ways you can prepare and things you can do in labour and birth for a greater likelihood of a physiological birth or a birth that you feel positive about. Take a listen to Natalie a doula and mother, on three things most helpful for a labouring woman or person. Connect with Natalie at byrondoula.com
Week 25: Erin, mother of two shares with you her two birth stories, what she learnt from her first experience and what she did differently the second time round for a more positive birth.
Week 26: Mother of two and hypno-birthing childbirth educator shares her journey from disempowered to empowered birth. Connect with Martin at www.facebook.com/birthinnaturesarms
Week 27: Virginia Bobro on mindfulness during pregnancy. Virginia goes on to discuss Rigidity vs flexibility in birth preparation and post birth. Noticing your own thoughts, fears and patterns of avoidance in relation to beliefs about what it is to have a particular kind of birth. Connect with Virginia at vbobro.com
Week 28. You maybe starting to think more about the kind of birth experience you want and what your options are. Here we hear from endorsed midwife Bronwyn Moir on water birth.
Water birth isn't a modern invention, as early as 1805 the first water birth was recorded in a French medial journal. Later in the 1960's and 70's water birth started to reemerge in Europe and the western world. Today, most hospitals have the facility for water immersion and water birth. And the great thing is you get to decided if that is an option for you. Connect with Bronwyn at holisticmidwifery.com.au
Week 29: Worry, fear, concerns, it is a normal part of any pregnancy or upcoming birth. Maha Al Musa founder of Embodied Birth shares with you a simple yet effective practice to examine your fears about birth. Feeling the fear and doing it anyway. This week we take a closer look at fear, internal and external fear. Connect with Maha at mahaalmusa.com
Week 30: One of the key tools for labour and birth is completely within you, you already know how to do it, plus it is scientifically proven to reduce stress and induce relaxation by activating the parasympathetic nervous system.
If you haven't guessed it already, it's using your breath. Breath awareness and practices date back centuries, women all over the globe instinctually use their breath to help them in labour and to birth their baby.
Here Hypno-birthing childbirth educator Martina, shares with you three different breathing techniques for labour and birth. Connect with Martina at facebook.com/birthinnaturesarms
Week 31: This episode we hear from Annalee, mother, co-founder of Pregnancy Birth & Beyond Media, nutritionist and birth advocate Annalee Atia on birthing her first born and three key elements that made it a positive experience. Connect with Annalee at annaleeatia.com
Week 32: This episode we hear from Natalie, doula and mother of her birthing experience. Natalie also shares with you what worked well for her, and what she would do differently next time. Connect with Natalie at thebyrondoula.com
Week 33: Anna Watts founder of Celebration of Birth Doula Academy, talks on Active birth including practical tips for your labour and birth.
Week 34: Part one on pain management for labour with midwife Sunae Reilly. Wanting a physiological birth (aka natural) you will benefit from knowing your options for being present with your labour and birth.
Week 35: Part two on pain management for labour. Registered midwife Sunae Reilly discusses your pharmacological pain relief options, if birthing in a hospital, for labour and birth.
Week 36: This episode Lara, childbirth mentor and doula, discusses the perineum with you. What you could expect during labour and birth and ways you can support your perineum post birth. Connect with Lara at consciousbirth.com
Week 37: Kari Azuma, feminine leadership coach, talks on her home birth transfer to caesarian. How she came to see her birth as an empowering experience despite her birth plan having to change. Connect with Kari kariazuma.com
Week 38: Undisturbed birth Part 1 featuring Dr Michel Odent on the fetal ejection reflex.
The neocortex is the thinking part of the brain. When the neocortex is activated during labour a mother is taken out of her primitive brain where her birth hormones most smoothly function. There are three key elements of undisturbed birth; safety, privacy and warmth.
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Week 39: This episode you about birth sanctuary and undisturbed birth.
Birth sanctuary refers to a safe and private, often homelike environment in which a woman labours and births. Undisturbed birth has been described by O'dent and Buckley as the smoothest hormonal orchestration for birth to unfold physiologically. Undisturbed birth is where the mother feels safe, both physically and emotionally, is unobserved and has a warm sanctum. Featured are Dr Sarah Buckley sarahbuckley.com
Week 41: This episode you hear about the placenta function, placenta encapsulation from Kirrah Stewart and an extract from Jane Hardwicke Collings blog on the placenta with Minmia.
Connect with Kirrah at traditionalwisdom.com.au
More from Jane at janehardwickecollings.com
Week 42: Dr Oscar Serrallach father of 3 shares with you his journey to parenthood, including his role during the labour and birth of this children. oscarserrallach.com
Week 43: Registered midwife Sunae Reilly talks on the value of keeping the birthing parent and baby close after hospital birth, even when intervention may be required.
Week 44: Erica continues on the theme of birth as a rite of passage bringing a deeper awareness to the postpartum period. The final stage of birth as a rite of passage, known as the return. Erica also shares practical tips for the postpartum time. luminousyouth.com
Week 45: This episode we hear from Dr Oscar Serrallach, Functional doctor, author of The Postnatal Depletion Cure and public speaker. Oscar shares with you the importance of a good postnatal plan and how a mother can create a real cocoon at home for her recovery. Connect with Oscar at oscarserrallach.com
Week 4: Often pregnancy is seen as a big lead up to birth, with little to no preparation for what comes next, postpartum. When you leave hospital or if you had a home birth, it can feel like you're expected to naturally know how to navigate the next year of a newborns life. Yet, this couldn't be further from the truth. Here we hear from Bronwyn Moir, endorsed midwife on preparing for postpartum. Connect with Bronwyn at holisticmidwifery.com.au
Week 47: This week we have Meg Nagle otherwise known as The milk meg. Health and breastmilk really go hand in hand. We hear from Meg about how breastmilk supports a healthy immune system and gut and what you can do to improve your gut so your baby gets the benefits through your milk. Connect with Meg at themilkmeg.com
Week 48: This episode Emma Grant of Red Tent Yoga shares with you on Loving your body – prenatally and postnatally. Emma sheds light on the topic of body/ baby fat (the weight you gain during pregnancy) but here fat is not a dirty word, it is essential to the well being of mother and baby. Connect with Emma at Redtentyoga.com.au
Week 49: In this episode Emma Grant from Red Tent Yoga shares with you a short practice to connect with and send some love to your pregnant or postnatal body. Connect with Emma at redtentyoga.com.au
Week 50: Dr Howard Chilton Father, grandfather neonatal paediatrician, of more than four decades in the UK, USA and Australia, author of two books Baby on Board and Your Cherished Baby talks on your newborn baby's needs. Connect with Dr Howard at babydoc.com.au
Week 51: This episode psychotherapist, film maker and story teller talks Kimberley Lipschus on baby attachment. Connect with Kimberley at kimberleylipschus.com
Week 52: This episode relationship therapist Sean Tonnet talks on 'team parenting' right from the start. Connect with Sean at seantonnet.com.au